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Colleges Are Under Fire. They Must Learn How to Weather Attacks.
Why higher ed has become an easy target. -
The Review
What’s Wrong With Required Internships? Plenty
The landscape of internships is ambiguous, unregulated, potentially exploitative, and — for many students — inaccessible. Here’s what colleges have to do before mandatory internships should be considered. -
The Review
Considering Curriculum Reform? Better Do Your Homework First
You will make better decisions about curriculum changes by taking strong steps to use data effectively. -
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The Benefits of Testing a Program in Different States
A project coordinated across 11 states will shed light on how policy variables affect the success of completion grants. -
The Review
Technical or Cultural Courses? Students Need Both
If higher education doesn’t become more interdisciplinary, graduates won’t succeed. -
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Want to Revamp Your Curriculum? Here’s How to Avoid a Quagmire.
Faculty members will be on guard. To reassure them, leaders must share goals and visions, and frankly discuss how changes could affect careers and budgets. -
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Can Peer Review Be Saved?
The problem facing universities in 2018 isn’t so much that peer review has inevitably evolved, but that scientists collectively have failed to respond with a better replacement. -
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Advice: 6 Steps to Help First-Generation Students Succeed
A young university that serves low-income and Hispanic populations closely monitors students to ensure they graduate on time. -
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Tamiflu and the Limits of Peer Review
The $20-billion controversy surrounding the influenza vaccine illustrates the problem of relying too heavily on published articles as a measure of scientific reliability. -
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These Ph.D. Programs Pay More Than Lip Service to Alternative Careers
Doctoral programs have an urgent directive from students, the public, and the professors who run them: It’s time to change. -
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A Year of Rolling Back Rules
A chronology of some of the Trump administration’s key deregulatory steps affecting higher education. -
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What’s Different About Recent Hazing Deaths
Fraternity deaths drew intense media coverage in 2017. But will that prompt real change? -
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Advice: Prepare Your Ph.D.s for Diverse Career Paths
Academic jobs may be drying up, but the need for scholarly thinkers is greater than ever. Here’s how graduate programs can ready Ph.D.s for alternative careers in the professional workplace. -
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Why Many Black Colleges Are Seeing Record Enrollments
Strategic recruitment plays a big role in the resurgence. -
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2017 Hazing Deaths on University Campuses
Andrew Coffey, 20, of Pompano Beach, Fla., was a civil-engineering student and Pi Kappa Phi pledge at Florida State University. He died in early November at an off-campus “big brother night” party that the fraternity’s executive committee had organized. According to court records, he consumed a… -
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More International Students Are Choosing Other Countries for Study Abroad
Their enrollment in American colleges is leveling off – and not just because of Trump. -
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Building Relationships Through Social Media
As prospective students become increasingly digital natives, so too should higher-education leaders. That’s one of the ways black college leaders are expanding their flocks. -
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Advice: How to Encourage Data-Driven Discovery
Colleges must provide an intellectual infrastructure that supports data analysis in a broad range of fields. -
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Colleges Rush to Ride Data-Science Wave
New interdisciplinary programs spring up to meet job-market needs, but do they make sense? -
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The Uninvited Guest
Provocative political speakers have set their sights on colleges. Whether the firebrands get their stage or not, the cost to colleges can be high. -
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Inside the Trends Report
Find out how innovative college leaders are responding to 10 key shifts in higher education. -
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Who’s in Charge on College Campuses? Students
Demographic, institutional, and political changes are putting more power in their hands. -
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A Small Sum Can Make a Big Difference in Student Success
Whether someone graduates or drops out can come down to as little as a thousand dollars. -
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Supply of Students Is Up Nationally, But Some Regions Face Scarcity
Thirty-four states are expected to have more high-school graduates in 2025-26 than they did 13 years earlier. -
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International Student Enrollment: What the Data Show
How much growth is slowing, and which countries send the most. -
Chronicle List
Top Producers of Peace Corps Volunteers, FY 2017
The nine top producers of undergraduate-alumni Peace Corps volunteers in the 2017 fiscal year were all state flagship institutions. -
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Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (3/9/2018)
David R. Harris will lead Union College, in New York; a University of California center names its inaugural class of free-speech fellows. -
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Amid Fear of Foreign Influence, Colleges’ Confucius Institutes Face Renewed Skepticism
The China-sponsored institutes, on more than 100 campuses, are drawing increased scrutiny as America’s rivalry with China grows and as worries about Russian meddling expand. -
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Shadowy ‘Group of 17 Faculty’ Adds Confusion to Chapel Hill’s Silent Sam Debate
The group, claiming to represent senior faculty members, vowed to take down the Confederate monument on its own. Then it eased off the threat. -
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Rochester Faculty Senate Censures Professor Accused of Harassment
In a narrow vote, professors condemned T. Florian Jaeger, who was largely cleared of misconduct by an independent investigation. -
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Wisconsin-Superior Leaders Mulled Their Ability to Skirt Shared Governance in Cutting Programs
Emails show that administrators discussed whether they could eliminate more than two dozen programs without consulting professors. -
Commentary
Arming the Faculty: a Few Questions
For example, would weapons training count toward the service component of a person’s tenure file, or would it be lumped in with teaching evaluations? -
Read the Investigation
She Left Harvard. He Got to Stay.
Did the university’s handling of one professor’s sexual-harassment complaint keep other women from coming forward for decades? -
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Michigan State’s Ex-President Now Holds a Prestigious Professorship. Some of Her Colleagues Aren’t Happy About It.
Faculty members say Lou Anna K. Simon’s scholarly credentials don’t make the cut for the elite award. -
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Colleges Can’t Completely Shield Undocumented Students if DACA Lapses. Here’s What They Can Do.
Anxiety and frustration hang above undocumented students and the faculty and staff members who are trying to support them. -
Admissions
Why Admissions Leaders Have — or Haven’t — Spoken Up for Prospective Protesters
With emotions running high since shootings at a Florida high school, many colleges have assured gun-control advocates that punishments would not hurt their applications. But some colleges have feared to speak out on the matter. -
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Education Dept. Opens New Investigation Into Michigan State’s Handling of Nassar Scandal
The Title IX inquiry will look at systemic issues in the university’s response to incidents involving Larry Nassar, the secretary of education said. -
Gender Gap
2 Lawsuits Highlight Pay Gap for Female Administrators
Women in jobs like dean or assistant vice provost get paid 80 cents for every dollar that men in similar positions are paid, a disparity that has lingered for at least 15 years. -
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Several Universities May Be Implicated in Basketball Probe, New Report Suggests
A report by Yahoo Sports suggests that a federal investigation of bribery in college basketball could involve at least 20 big-time programs.