
Ruth Hammond
As senior editor, Ruth Hammond was responsible for the weekly Chronicle List, which compared higher-education institutions on various measures; the annual Almanac issue of data on higher education; the Chronicle Focus series of collections of articles from The Chronicle’s archives; and the monthly Bookshelf page.
She also helped oversee the Gazette section, which lists appointments, retirements, resignations, awards, and deaths. Previously, she was editor of The hronicle’s People section and a night copy editor.
Hammond has been a staff writer for five daily newspapers, among them the Minneapolis Tribune, and two alternative newsweeklies, including Pittsburgh City Paper. She was also editorial director of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, where she edited the book Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2005. Among her journalism awards is an American Bar Association Certificate of Merit for a series of articles about flaws in Minnesota’s court-interpreting system.
She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Stories by this Author
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Selected New Books on Higher Education
The latest titles examine the goals of student activists, the social context behind campus sexual assaults, and Pacific Islander students’ success strategies. -
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Selected New Books on Higher Education
The latest titles discuss how college communities can find common ground and how the transition to college can be eased for first-generation students. -
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The Nation’s Students Have Grown More Diverse. Has Harvard’s Enrollment Kept Pace?
While Harvard, which won a judge’s approval of its race-conscious admissions policies, lags in its representation of black and Hispanic students, it far outpaces other four-year institutions over all in its representation of Asian Americans. -
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Want to Be an English Professor? It Gets Harder Every Year
Every academic year from 2012-13 on, universities produced more doctorate recipients in English language and literature than there were jobs advertised in the MLA’s Job Information List. -
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Editor’s Note
Our annual Almanac issue covers who is being taught at college, where, by whom, at what costs. -
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Hope and Worry, by the Numbers
The data draw a portrait of a higher-education sector that is under pressure to enroll more students and to ensure that a diverse number of them have equal chances to improve their lives. -
On Leadership
A Rekindled Interest in Law
Kellye Testy describes signs that the outlook for many law schools may be improving. The number of applications is beginning to rise again. And the current political climate has engendered more interest in law and the effect it can have on issues like immigration and social justice. -
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Table: U.S. Institutions With the Most Foreign Students, 2015-16
Seven Midwestern universities were among the top 20 doctoral institutions for enrollment of foreign students. -
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Table: 4-Year Institutions That Granted the Most Degrees, by Sector, 2014-15
A small group of colleges awarded a significant share of the degrees conferred in the United States, especially among for-profit institutions. -
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Table: Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded at Public 4-Year Institutions That Conferred Primarily Associate Degrees, 2014-15
Now that more community colleges have the authority to offer bachelor’s degrees, 49 of them together granted 4,394 such degrees in 2014-15.