Jan. 12, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 64, Issue 18-
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The Review
How to Reach Out to First-Generation Students
First-generation faculty members at Old Dominion University connect with first-generation students to ease the isolation that many of them feel. -
The Review
How the Right Weaponized Free Speech
The ability to express one’s opinion, no matter how unfounded or false, has become the test of free speech. Knowledge is the casualty. -
The Review
Political Correctness Has Run Amok — on the Right
This is the campus free-speech problem nobody talks about. -
News
What Can the CEO of a $1.6-Billion Enrollment-Services Giant Tell Us About the Student Life Cycle?
David Felsenthal says predictive analytics reveal where to spend time and money to graduate as many students as possible. -
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News
Inmates Are Classmates in This Program
Pitzer College aims to broaden the worldview of students from the Claremont Colleges consortium as well as their prisoner classmates. -
The Review
From Apathy to Engagement
A course on democracy changed his life. Now he wants to pay it forward. -
News
How Colleges Ignite Civic Engagement
Voter drives, community organizing, service learning, and new course offerings connect them with the world beyond the campus gates. -
The Review
The Case Against Academia.edu
The academy has always been a hothouse of invidious comparison. This website makes it worse. -
The Review
A Checklist for Transformative Leaders
College presidents must be collaborative, adaptable, and willing to share power to guide their institutions to success in the 21st century. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (1/12/2018)
Merodie A. Hancock will become president of Thomas Edison State University, and Daniel Alfonso was named vice president for facilities management at Nova Southeastern University. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education (January 2018)
Many major gifts to colleges come from older alumni, but the Rochester Institute of Technology recently received a $50-million gift from a 2009 graduate. -
From the Archives
The Fight to Rebuild a Ravaged University
When Hurricane Maria plunged the University of Puerto Rico into gloom, professors and students had no choice but to bring back the light. -
News
At a Time of Change, These Baptist Colleges Are Staying the Course
Georgia’s Brewton-Parker College, Shorter University, and Truett McConnell University have doubled down on their religious identity. But two of them have seen sharp declines in enrollment. -
News
A Brief History of Students Secretly Recording Their Professors
Recent efforts by a right-wing activist to recruit conservative students to spy on their liberal professors are just the newest iteration of what has become a notorious campus pastime. -
Academic Freedom
Think You Know What Type of College Would Accept Charles Koch Foundation Money? Think Again.
At some public regional universities, the foundation’s conservative politics have made it a tough sell. But a growing number of prestigious institutions now are among the top recipients of Koch funding. -
The Review
How Facebook Stymies Social Science
When private companies hold data that scholars need, what becomes of academic research? -
Students
This UNC Student Is a College Trustee at 23. Here’s What She Thinks of the Confederate Monument on Her Campus.
“You may be tempted to call me a coddled millennial,” said Mya Roberson in a message to the university’s trustees and chancellor. “But I am human. I am black. And I am fed up.” -
Labor Issues
What’s a Fair Wage for Adjuncts?
For the City University of New York’s faculty union, the answer is $7,000 per course. -
The Review
Stop the Generational Moralizing About Free Speech
The case for free speech must be made with appropriate sensitivity to the perspective of its critics. -
The Review
The Disillusionment of Samuel Moyn
The Yale historian has become a prominent critic of liberalism. But what’s he for?
