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Jan. 5, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 64, Issue 17
The Review
Enrollment-management professionals suggest how a college in a less than ideal place can strengthen its appeal to prospective students.
Idea Lab
Detroit’s reputation lags behind its rebirth, but the University of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University do appeal to Generation Z.
The Chronicle Interview
When is it time to make a move? For what reasons, and with what conditions? Ruth J. Simmons shares her insights.
News
Culver-Stockton changed the middle of nowhere to its own distinctive somewhere.
News
Peter Provenzano Jr. became president at Oakland Community College in Michigan, and Deborah Bordelon was named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Columbus State University.
Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff
The four doctoral institutions with the highest numbers of international students in 2016-17 were all private nonprofit institutions.
Special Reports
Here in a corner of Missouri and across America, the lack of a college education has become a public-health crisis.
Government
In 2015, private nonprofit colleges minted 158 millionaires. Their institutions would have to pay a 21-percent tax.
Finance
Kentucky’s Berea College, which charges no tuition and serves primarily low-income students, will probably have to pay a 1.4-percent tax on its endowment earnings after a revote on tax legislation.
Behind Bars
Professors hope a federal experiment will prove that offering Pell Grants to prisoners is a good investment. It’s just as likely, though, that the program will be shut down by its political opponents.
News
A survey finds that the share of professors who have adopted open-licensed textbooks has risen to 9 percent from 5 percent in just two years.
Research
A Tufts University professor created a catalog of the recurring themes in the space saga’s universe.
Teaching
The small college’s decision makes it both an outlier and a model of recent trends in general education.
Immigration
Among campus leaders, Michael S. Roth might be President Trump’s fiercest critic. He explains why he thinks campus leaders should jump into the political fray.
Fund Raising
The institutions see dwindling state support, but donors appear to like their missions.
News
Projected shifts in the applicant pool prompt doom-and-gloom predictions at many institutions. But Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College, says the forecast varies from campus to campus.
Technology
By Julia Martinez, Sam Hoisington
The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to allow internet-service providers to favor some types of online traffic over others could hurt research and instruction, college groups say.
Campus Speech
When emails announcing a visit by the Project Veritas founder bombarded campus in-boxes, few had heard of the student group behind it all.
California’s public-college systems need at least $47.2 billion to cover construction, renovation, and retrofitting over the next five years, a report says.
News
In a session of the House education committee that stretched nearly into Wednesday morning, members debated a plan that could mean sweeping change for academe.
Sexual Harassment
When Karen Kelsky, an academic career adviser, created an online survey so scholars could describe their experiences with sexual misconduct, the responses poured in.
Sexual Misconduct
Researchers have accused a professor of crossing professional boundaries and pressuring students for sex. Now, in a federal lawsuit, they say the university tried to smear them as gossips and liars.
Faculty
Campus officials say they are “deeply concerned” about anonymous allegations of sexual assault and harassment by Gopal Balakrishnan.
Commentary
By Ted Gup
As colleges rescind awards to fallen eminences, how can they separate laudable accomplishments from flawed individuals? Should they?
Advice
By Andrew V. Suarez, Terry McGlynn
It’s clearly not open to all if scholars are required to pay to publish their results.