The changes to higher education after widespread vaccination and a "return to normal" will vary greatly from college to college. Just as there was no "one way" to run a university pre-COVID-19, there exists no single template or model to guide the post-COVID-19 university. However now is the time to start figuring out what comes next. If colleges and universities fail to plan for life after COVID-19, then they will most likely slide back to the pre-COVID-19 status quo. The six provocations offered in this article seek to center issues of quality, equity, and access in teaching and learning at the center of the conversation about how higher education must change in response to the pandemic. provoke conversation, discussion, and debate. Each provocation may be wrong or right--or somewhere in the middle--for individual institutions or for higher education as a whole. Joshua Kim and Edward Maloney suggest utilizing these provocations as tools in order to get campus stakeholders talking to one another about how colleges all can be the authors of a new postpandemic reality.