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Underwhelming Outcomes

Does Diversity Training Work?

Scant evidence, and mixed results, suggest it doesn’t.

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Diversity Statements Were All the Rage. Now They’re in Danger.

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59 Fewer Jobs and $17 Million in Cuts: How a University System Got Rid of DEI

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Why It’s So Hard to Change Minds About DEI

The Latest

Campus Activism

We Looked at Dozens of Colleges’ New Protest Policies. Here’s What We Found.

Exodus

Penn State Offered Buyouts. At This Campus, 40 Percent of Staff Raised Their Hands.

Reckoning With History

Virginia Wants to Give Scholarships to Descendants of Slaves. It’s Harder Than It Looks.

Health & Wellness

Fewer College Students Reported Mental-Health Challenges for the First Time in Years

'An Important Decision'

She Sued the Sleuths Who Found Fraud in Her Data. A Judge Just Ruled Against Her.

Political Calculations

A Small Regional College Wanted to Celebrate Tim Walz. The City Refused.

Podcast: College Matters from The Chronicle

College Matters

What the FAFSA Just Happened?

The disastrous rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid leaves many students vulnerable at a crucial time.

College Matters

Is Reading Over for Gen Z Students?

Students are arriving at college woefully unprepared, professors say. In the first episode of College Matters from The Chronicle, we explore why this is happening, and what can be done about it.

The Public-Perception Puzzle

Where the Public Sees Value in Higher Ed

The Chronicle asked more than a thousand adults how well colleges serve students and society. Explore the data to find points of confidence and doubt, consensus and divergence.

What Do Americans Say About College? That Depends on What — and Whom — You Ask.

Explore the nuances of public views of higher ed in 15 findings from Chronicle polling data.

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Why It’s So Hard to Get People Back in College Once They’ve Quit

For many of America’s 40 million college dropouts, the reasons not to return are obvious.

The Public-Perception Puzzle

A series by The Chronicle to examine higher ed’s public-perception problem — and the solutions to it.

Featured Newsletters

Teaching

Connecting With Gen Z Through Course Design

Latitudes

Latitudes: Another American College Says Zàijiàn to a Chinese Partnership

The Review

Columbia’s Incoherent Antisemitism Task-Force Report

Special Report

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Always Right?

College Feels Transactional to Many Students. Who — or What — Is to Blame?

Students increasingly see themselves as customers and college as a means to an end. Faculty members are wrestling with the consequences.

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Supportive Strategies

Why Students Can’t Work on Their Own

Many struggle to complete coursework independently. How can professors adjust?

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The Review | Essay

Elite Colleges Are More Diverse Than Ever. They’re Still Unequal.

Living in the university’s blind spots.

Virtual Events

The Changing Futures of Community Colleges

UPCOMING: September 24, 2024 | The Covid-19 pandemic permanently transformed the role of community colleges. Join us to explore strategies and insights that can prepare institutions for this new era — and beyond. With Support From Ascendium. Register here.

Professional-Development Resources

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Professional-Development Programs

Visit The Chronicle’s professional-development resources page to stay up-to-date on our career advancement workshop opportunities for higher-ed professionals.

The Chair’s Role in the Continuing Pandemic

George Justice discusses how department chairs are continuing to deal with Covid on campus, and how they’re dealing with the added pressures of leading through the pandemic. Video provided by Dever Justice LLC.

Managing Up

Carolyn Dever tackles how managing up is a challenge for all department chairs, and how to navigate these difficulties, providing pro tips on how to approach your dean or provost. Video provided by Dever Justice LLC.

Seven Practices for Building Community and Student Belonging Virtually

Most colleges have traditionally provided in-person programming and supports to strengthen bonds between students and build community. This research brief was originally published by Ithaka S+R.

The Review

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Conservatives Are Rare in Academe. Is There Anything Wrong With That?

Eleven scholars on politics, partisanship, and the professoriate.

Lucy Freeman Sandler, Samuel Jay Keyser, and Jean Baker

‘I’m a Retired Scholar. I’m Not Retired From Scholarship.’

By Heidi Landecker

These 90-something professors are still publishing. Is scholarship their fountain of youth?

A student is arrested at University of Michigan during protests there.

The University of Michigan’s Assault on Truth

By Silke-Maria Weineck

College leaders crack down on protests — and lie about it.

Letters to the Editor

Read the latest letters to the editor about our articles and about topics we have covered.

Data

About One in Four Faculty Members Are Unionized, Study Finds

The new report is based on data collected from 902 higher-education collective-bargaining units.

How Well Do You Know Higher Ed? Take Our Quiz.

Answers are drawn from The Chronicle’s newly released Almanac, our annual data-driven portrait of academe.

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What Would Higher Ed Look Like Distilled Into 100 Institutions?

America has nearly 4,000 degree-granting colleges, which can make it difficult to fully understand the sweep and diversity of the sector.

Advice

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Admin 101: How to Lead Your Campus on AI

By David D. Perlmutter

Generative AI is just one more crisis for administrators, but it may very well be the one with the most long-term effects on institutions and careers.