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News
Public Regional Colleges Never Die. Can They Be Saved?
Demographics and budgets are forcing the workhorses of higher education to reinvent themselves. But political realities have a way of hampering change. -
The Review
Doing the Right Thing in Sexual-Misconduct Cases
If neither side is entirely happy with the result, that might indicate that the process was sound. -
The Review
Here’s Looking at You, ‘Casablanca’
Diversity, solidarity, commitment: 75 years later, a classic still has a lot to teach us. -
The Review
Heartlessness as an Intellectual Style
Arendt, Didion, and Sontag exchanged sentimentality for tough truths, but at considerable cost. -
The Review
The Christian Agenda Behind Inmate Education
For prisoners, learning often comes with evangelical strings attached. -
The Review
Seek Out Strangers
A linguist who lived with a Brazilian tribe in the Amazonian jungle argues against getting too comfortable. -
The Review
The Corporate Assault on Higher Education
It’s part of a broader attack on public services that’s channeled through state legislatures to avoid the national spotlight. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (5/5/2017)
A former U.S. under secretary of energy will succeed Nancy Zimpher as chancellor of the State University of New York system. -
News
Breaking Professional Schools Out of Their Silos
How colleges are making career-focused education more interdisciplinary. -
News
Medical Schools Embrace ‘Interprofessional Education’
Professors experiment with teaching teams of students in a variety of health sciences. -
News
7 Tips for Building Hybrid Professional Programs
Several veterans of the process share some advice. -
The Review
The Role of Confidentiality in Presidential Searches
Who are governing boards protecting with such requirements? -
The Chronicle Interview
As Robots Displace Workers, Higher Ed ‘Will Change a Great Deal,’ Researcher Says
A co-founder of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy warns artificial-intelligence luminaries that if technological-unemployment trends continue, “the people will rise up before the machines do.” -
News
Awards
Thirty-five scholars who are researching topics in the social sciences and the humanities were awarded Andrew Carnegie Fellowships. -
Chronicle List
AAU Members With the Greatest Diversity Among Tenure-Track Hires, Fall 2015
The University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Pennsylvania led other Association of American Universities members in diversity of new tenure-track teaching faculty. -
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News
At Berkeley, a Speaker’s Cancellation Spurs New Battles Over Free Speech
The conservative commentator Ann Coulter canceled her planned speech, prompting a new round of recriminations on a campus known as the birthplace of the free-speech movement. -
News
Should Alice Goffman’s Work Cost Her a Faculty Position?
A group of students and alumni of Pomona College, which named her a visiting professor, argues that it should. Scholars and administrators say that demand treads on dangerous territory. -
News
Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I
The program helps prepare low-income high-school students for college. Some members of Congress are urging the Education Department to “apply some common sense” and reconsider the rejected applications, putting more focus on substance than format. -
News
In the DeVos Era, New Higher-Ed Policy Could Come From the Senate
The U.S. Senate education committee has been able to work on bipartisan legislation in the past. But will early disputes jeopardize lawmakers’ ability to come to the table? -
News
Colleges’ Use of a Foreign-Worker Program Draws Mixed Reviews
Critics say H-1B visas allow citizens of other countries to take American jobs, but their university sponsors regard them as entrepreneurs creating opportunity for American students and workers. -
News
2 Illinois Professors Were Laid Off. Then They Got Tenure. Now What?
Western Illinois University says a state budget impasse and enrollment woes forced it to cut back. Now, Holly A. Stovall and Sherry Lindquist are fighting for their jobs. -
Student Aid
A Key Tool’s Outage Threatens to Set Back Financial-Aid Reforms
The Internal Revenue Service’s data-retrieval tool is out of commission. That threatens to undermine important changes in financial aid, which took effect only months ago.