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March 9, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 64, Issue 26
News
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.
The Review
By Matthew T. Hora
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
By Alexandra W. Logue
You will make better decisions about curriculum changes by taking strong steps to use data effectively.
The Review
By Barry Glassner, Morton O. Schapiro
If higher education doesn’t become more interdisciplinary, graduates won’t succeed.
News
A project coordinated across 11 states will shed light on how policy variables affect the success of completion grants.
News
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.
News
By Cynthia Teniente-Matson
A young university that serves low-income and Hispanic populations closely monitors students to ensure they graduate on time.
News
Demographic, institutional, and political changes are putting more power in their hands.
News
Whether someone graduates or drops out can come down to as little as a thousand dollars.
News
Thirty-four states are expected to have more high-school graduates in 2025-26 than they did 13 years earlier.
News
The $20-billion controversy surrounding the influenza vaccine illustrates the problem of relying too heavily on published articles as a measure of scientific reliability.
News
Doctoral programs have an urgent directive from students, the public, and the professors who run them: It’s time to change.
News
A chronology of some of the Trump administration’s key deregulatory steps affecting higher education.
News
Fraternity deaths drew intense media coverage in 2017. But will that prompt real change?
News
By Virginia Scharff
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.
News
Strategic recruitment plays a big role in the resurgence.
News
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…
News
Their enrollment in American colleges is leveling off – and not just because of Trump.
News
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.
News
By Ed Lazowska
Colleges must provide an intellectual infrastructure that supports data analysis in a broad range of fields.
News
New interdisciplinary programs spring up to meet job-market needs, but do they make sense?
News
Provocative political speakers have set their sights on colleges. Whether the firebrands get their stage or not, the cost to colleges can be high.
News
Find out how innovative college leaders are responding to 10 key shifts in higher education.
News
How much growth is slowing, and which countries send the most.
Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff
The nine top producers of undergraduate-alumni Peace Corps volunteers in the 2017 fiscal year were all state flagship institutions.
News
David R. Harris will lead Union College, in New York; a University of California center names its inaugural class of free-speech fellows.
News
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.
News
By Emma Kerr
The group, claiming to represent senior faculty members, vowed to take down the Confederate monument on its own. Then it eased off the threat.
News
In a narrow vote, professors condemned T. Florian Jaeger, who was largely cleared of misconduct by an independent investigation.
News
Emails show that administrators discussed whether they could eliminate more than two dozen programs without consulting professors.
Commentary
By David Ebenbach
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
Did the university’s handling of one professor’s sexual-harassment complaint keep other women from coming forward for decades?
News
Faculty members say Lou Anna K. Simon’s scholarly credentials don’t make the cut for the elite award.
News
By Bianca Quilantan
Anxiety and frustration hang above undocumented students and the faculty and staff members who are trying to support them.
Admissions
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.
News
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
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.
News
A report by Yahoo Sports suggests that a federal investigation of bribery in college basketball could involve at least 20 big-time programs.