Aug. 3, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 64, Issue 39-
NewsTransitions: New President Starts at Los Angeles Southwest College, Cornell U. Names Its First Female Architecture Dean
Seher Awan was a vice president at San Diego City College before taking over at Los Angeles Southwest College. Cornell’s next dean, J. Meejin Yoon, is head of architecture at MIT. -
Public Policy
Can a Huge Online College Solve California’s Work-Force Problems?
Jerry Brown thinks so. His dream project will give millions of the state’s working adults the opportunity to earn credentials and certificates. But is that what they want? -
The Review
Why the University’s Insatiable Appetite Will Be Its Undoing
It’s time for higher education to do less. -
News
Here’s How Some Universities Are Raising Their Research Profiles
Increasingly common strategies can increase income from federal grants, private contracts, and philanthropic donations. -
News
Is Climbing the Carnegie Research Rankings Worth the Price Tag?
So you want to join the elite ranks of Research 1 universities? Make sure that your aspirations match your institutional mission, and that you understand the long-term costs. -
The Review
What Institutions Gain From Higher Carnegie Status
A major benefit is that it encourages them to reach levels of productivity and sophistication that they might not have attempted otherwise. -
Chronicle List
Universities That Granted the Most Research Doctorates
Nine of the 10 universities that granted the most doctoral degrees in 2016 were public institutions. Stanford University joined them in the Number 6 spot. -
News
Transitions: U. of Maryland-Eastern Shore Names New President, Leaders of U. of Colorado and Nebraska Wesleyan U. Will Retire
Heidi M. Anderson will become president of University of Maryland-Eastern Shore in the fall. Two university chief executives plan to retire next year, after more than a decade. -
News
How Republican and Democratic Wish Lists on Higher Education Stack Up
With the release on Tuesday of the House Democrats’ proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, we can compare their priorities, head to head, with the Republicans’ competing legislation. -
Faculty Rights
What Is Academic Freedom? Statement That Alarmed Professors at U. of Texas Sets Off Debate
Lawyers representing the university in a lawsuit argued in January that such freedom, if it exists, belongs to the institution and not to individual professors. The president affirmed the principle, but the dispute continues. -
News
Want to Be an Activist in Residence? A Scholar and an Activist Explain How
Deva Woodly, an associate professor of politics at the New School, lobbied administrators to let her bring an activist, Shanelle Matthews, into her world. The two talk about the new position and how it benefits both groups. -
Students
No ‘Frasorority’ for Him: Citing Sexism, Members of Foreign-Service Fraternity Rebel Against Leader
Members and alumni of Delta Phi Epsilon, a national professional fraternity, are calling for the resignation of Terrence Boyle, who they say has expressed sexist and xenophobic beliefs. -
News
Rap Is Art. So Why Do Some Academics Still Feel as if They Have to Defend It?
After a college administrator said rap was not real music, scholars of the genre step up to defend their work. -
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The Review
History in an Age of Fake News
How to stop pseudo-historical grift from taking over the field. -
News
Baylor ‘Set the Football Program on Fire’ as Scapegoat in Sex-Assault Scandal, Says Ex-Athletic Director
In a lawsuit deposition, he names “bad actors,” some of them still at the university, in what he sees as a cover-up. -
News
More Than 100 Ohio State Alumni Allege Abuse by Former University Sports Doctor
Investigators said on Friday that the allegations had emerged from interviews with more than 200 former students and staff members. -
News
As Grim Anniversary Nears, UVa Faculty Members Protest Appointment of Former Trump Official
Critics of Marc Short’s hiring cited his defense of the president’s comments about the “very fine people” who attended last year’s white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. -
News
What Happens in the Classroom No Longer Stays in the Classroom. What Does That Mean for Teaching?
In an era of secret video recordings and online evaluations, the possibility of public judgment hovers over every instructor. That’s making the messy art of teaching even messier. -
News
Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia
The online encyclopedia, once scorned by academics, now pairs them with editors of its crowdsourced content. -
Play for Pay
Student Debt Gets the Game-Show Treatment. Who Wins?
The program bills itself as a solution to the student-loan crisis, but experts fear it’s got the wrong answers. -
Legal
Blasted as Predators, Professors Are Fighting Back With Lawsuits
A defamation case against a student and a professor at McGill University raises worries that accusations are being silenced. -
Legal
Feuding Letters at Yale Law Expose Divisions Over Supreme Court Nomination
Competing letters of support and opposition to Brett Kavanaugh, an alumnus, have circulated among the school’s faculty members, students, and alumni. -
The Review
Higher Ed’s Real Productivity Problem
Scholars have absorbed administrators’ obsession with measuring and ranking, and it’s keeping us from taking intellectual risks. -
The Review
All Things Ill-Considered: NPR’s Sexist Blunder
A public-radio segment on a book by two scholars omits any mention of the female co-author. Oops. -
The Review
The Self-Helpification of Academe
How feel-good nostrums cover up the university’s cruelty. -
The Review
How Concerns About ‘Undermatching’ Perpetuate Higher Ed’s Caste System
The idea that high-achieving, low-income students would be better off attending elite universities does a disservice to the colleges that educate most of the nation’s disadvantaged students. -
The Review
Deep Thought Shouldn’t Have to Be a Luxury Good
A recent memoir demonstrates how even the most talented students can be undone by financial stress. -
The Review
How the University Became Neoliberal
The crises of late capitalism aren’t coming from outside academe: The caller is inside the house.
