Dec. 8, 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 64, Issue 15-
News‘Fail State’ Confronts For-Profits and Laments the Disinvestment in Publics
A new documentary film charts the rise of for-profit colleges and questions higher education’s financial-aid model. -
News
The People Who Made a Difference in Higher Ed — for Better or Worse
They affected federal policy, campus culture, and the national conversation about education in 2017, and are likely to remain influential in the year ahead. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (12/8/2017)
Keith L. Ross will become president of Missouri Baptist University, and Timothy W. Gordon was named vice president for student affairs at Buffalo State College. -
The Review
College and the End of Upward Mobility
Higher education has widened the gap between the wealthy and the rest. -
The Review
Higher Ed’s Dysfunctional Devotion to Meritocracy
Social and economic chasms in our country are growing wider, and higher education is part of the problem. -
The Review
What I Know About My Students
My classrooms are filled with farm kids and military vets. They know how to work hard, care about a job well done, and view education as a privilege. -
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From the Archives
Chapel Hill’s New Civil War
A monument to the Confederacy known as Silent Sam stands at the main entrance of the University of North Carolina. It’s ripping the campus apart. So what’s keeping it there? -
News
Summer Camps Bring STEM to a Wider Audience
High-school students from low-income and minority backgrounds gain valuable skills, and colleges get an edge in recruiting. -
The Review
The Vital Role of Scholarship in Public Discourse
Academe today is far too reticent to weigh in on matters of public policy. But if not now, when? -
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Chronicle List
Colleges Whose Top 25 Percent of First-Time Enrollees Had the Highest Entrance-Exam Scores, 2015-16
The competition to get into elite institutions is evident by the number in which the top 25 percent of students had scores of 800 on the SAT critical-reading or math exams. -
News
Far-Right Speaker Is Arrested at U. of Connecticut After Physical Confrontation
Lucian Wintrich was at the university to deliver a speech titled “It’s OK to Be White.” He grabbed a woman after she appeared to take a piece of paper from the lectern where he was speaking. -
Admissions
Why People Really Love/Hate Alumni Interviews
A recent fiasco involving a Harvard interviewer prompted a wave of contradictory responses. College officials and alumni found the practice meaningful, or a charade; important, or a major risk; something to continue, or to end at once. -
Students
Why the U. of Maryland Is Hiring a ‘Hate-Bias Response Coordinator’
Colleges must adapt to a new normal of hate groups’ targeting their campuses, university officials say. -
Governance
After Lawsuit Threat and Canceled Speech, Scaramucci Resigns From Tufts Advisory Board
Anthony Scaramucci, who was briefly the White House communications director, threatened to sue a student newspaper writer on Monday. On Tuesday morning he resigned from an advisory board at Tufts University. -
News
Acceding to Fan Outrage, U. of Tennessee Draws More Critics
The university scrapped plans to hire Greg Schiano as its next head football coach, marking a rare capitulation to fans who seized on a disputed claim that he had failed to report Jerry Sandusky’s abuses at Penn State. -
Advice
Yes, You Have Implicit Biases, Too
Teaching techniques like “the progressive stack” are a way for faculty members to circumvent our own buried prejudices. -
Moving Up
Do We Need a Student on the Search Committee?
Some skeptics say no, but here’s why undergraduates deserve a seat at the table. -
The Review
How Rich Universities Get Richer
Colleges were and are unequal, only now they are more unequal than ever before.
