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Peter Monaghan

Correspondent
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Peter Monaghan is a correspondent for The Chronicle.

Stories by This Author

Micere Keels
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How to Help Minority Students Feel That They Belong
By Peter Monaghan February 23, 2020
Without “counterspaces” where they can find refuge and strengthen their resolve, students can be undermined by slights.
Curtis Marez
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Unequal Spaces: How College Is Portrayed in Film
By Peter Monaghan January 26, 2020
Public conceptions of the purpose of college have been shaped for the worse by the university-cinema-industrial complex, says the author of a new book.
Ricardo Azziz
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The Best Time to Merge: Before ‘No One Wants You’
By Peter Monaghan December 15, 2019
Mergers are not just what happens to other institutions, says the lead author of a new book. Colleges should all be planning for them.
Adrianna Kezar
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Academe as the Dystopian Workplace
By Peter Monaghan November 24, 2019
A new book argues that overuse of gig workers in higher education is ruining its values and impeding students from learning.
Ulrich Baer
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Speaking Up About Free Speech on Campus
By Peter Monaghan October 20, 2019
A professor searches for the right balance between free speech and academic freedom. Equality, he says, is at stake.
Chris Palmer
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Giving Students What They Want: Transformation
By Peter Monaghan September 19, 2019
A retired professor who started teaching college students in his mid-50s offers advice on the best ways to prepare students for the real world.
Mark Roosevelt (right) is president of the two-campus St. John’s College, and Walter Sterling is dean of the college at the New Mexico campus, where tuition is being slashed from more than $54,000 to $35,000. "We were actually embarrassed by our sticker price," Roosevelt says.
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Getting the Price Just Right
By Peter Monaghan August 18, 2019
To slash or not to slash, college officials wonder when their tuition pricing isn’t bringing the desired results.
Michael Oehrtman, a professor of mathematics at Oklahoma State U. at Stillwater, is one of five faculty members there who helped win a five-year, $3-million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve and standardize instruction in entry-level math courses across the state.
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Coping in a Cash-Starved State System
By Peter Monaghan August 4, 2019
Oklahoma’s colleges look for ways to make up for the shortcomings of students’ earlier education.
James V. Koch
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The Case for Saying No to Tuition Increases
By Peter Monaghan July 14, 2019
If college governing boards wanted to, they could hold down tuition costs and open the doors to more low-income students, says a new book.
Students can find comfort in natural surroundings, the authors of a new book say. The photo is from the cover of the book, "Nature Rx."
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What the Woods Do for Stressed Students
By Peter Monaghan June 16, 2019
At several colleges, one prescription for troubled students is to spend more time in natural surroundings.
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