“Pandemia” in the context of this paper is the infiltration of the COVID-19 pandemic in academia. Simply, it is operationalized as a “pandemic in academia”. The disruptive effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on the status quo of education is unprecedented. Since its discovery and official declaration of the COVID-19 as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 (WHO, 2020), academia has not been the same in terms of funding, teaching, learning, research practice among others. In the midst of a potential threat of a COVID-19 lockdown and debate over a potent vaccine is to keep the coronavirus at bay, necessity has forced many higher education institutions (HEIs) to migrate emergently to full online learning (Adarkwah, 2021a), there has also been transition to digital libraries to provide educational content to students/communities (Tammaro, 2020), researchers are forced to explore alternative ways of conducting research without physical contact with participants (Braun, Blok, Loeber, & Wunderle, 2020), and there have been advocators and a surge of virtual laboratories to enable final year students complete their experiment for possible graduation (Lorusso & Shumskaya, 2020). The pandemic has therefore terrorized academia causing myriad significant changes in its diverse fields. The paper discusses some of the short-term and long-term changes (the present impact on/response to and future prospects of academia).