Jan. 13, 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 63, Issue 19-
Enrollment‘Recruitment to Native Communities Has Got to Be Different’
Higher education needs to make significant changes if it wants to overcome the obstacles that face Native American students, says Carmen Lopez, executive director of College Horizons. -
News
How 2 Colleges Help Native Students Succeed
Cultural lessons, animal societies, and Soup Wednesday: The University of Montana and Blackfeet Community College take different approaches to serving Native students. -
From the Archives
Fighting Long Odds
What one semester reveals about Native American students’ struggle to succeed in college. -
The Review
Beyond Pretty Buildings
The new historic preservation should confront the most pressing problems of our age. -
Small Colleges Find New Revenue Streams Close to Home
Real-estate deals are just one way these institutions are trying to diversify their sources of income. -
News
A Better Use of Space
Antioch College and other small institutions rethink their real estate to generate revenue. -
The Review
Think You’re Safe From Retirement-Plan Lawsuits? Think Again
Even public universities should be prepared to demonstrate that they are properly managing their employees’ benefits. -
The Review
Teaching Immigration Law in the Age of Trump
The president-elect’s nativist rhetoric doesn’t give students license to engage in hostile classroom debate. But the boundaries are far more contestable and contested than they once were. -
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The Review
Incendiary Politics
A chronicle of the dark dance between the Weather Underground and the FBI. -
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News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (1/13/2017)
The president of Chattanooga State Community College will lead the Tennessee Board of Regents system, and a former University of Illinois chancellor will head the Colorado Longitudinal Study. -
The Review
The College Sex Bureaucracy
To fight assault, the feds have made colleges clumsy monitors of students’ sex lives. Will the Trump administration reverse that trend? -
The Chronicle Interview
‘You Have to Understand the World in Which You Live’
After going a few rounds in the political arena, Penn’s Zeke Emanuel wants to turn academics loose on crucial international issues. -
Students
How Publicity Might Sway Reporting of Campus Sexual Assaults
Some colleges have raised the publicity issue as an argument against releasing information. Anti-rape activists say the public should know more about sexual violence — but not too much. -
Campus Critics
A Turning Point in the Campus Culture Wars? For Some, Trump Raises Hopes
Critics of campus speech codes, race-conscious admission practices, and other perceived liberal excesses in higher education see opportunity in Republicans’ gains. -
Research
Why Millennials Don’t Want to Run for Office
The economic and psychological costs of campaigning are high, but at stake is a healthy democracy, says the political scientist Shauna L. Shames. -
Fund Raising
What to Do With a Mustang, and Other Lessons in Handling Gifts of Property
A donor may have a college’s best interests at heart, but sometimes in-kind gifts are more trouble than they’re worth. After all, says one college official, “we’re not running a flea market.” -
News
What’s In and What’s Out for Colleges as Trump Takes Office
Although the president-elect has said little about higher education, interviews with people in and around the incoming administration reveal the contours of some likely directions. -
First Person
Helping Professors Find Time to Think
The mission of faculty development has begun to broaden beyond the traditional focus on teaching.
