Nov. 23, 2018

Chronicle List

Colleges With the Most Students Who End Up Working In State and Out of State

By Chronicle Staff

Where do students end up when they leave college? Many of them stay fairly close to their alma mater, but students of elite colleges tend to scatter.

News

A Professor Discovers Firsthand How Dirty Politics Can Be

By Scott Carlson

Tracy Mitrano, a cybersecurity scholar, lost her bid to become a U.S. representative. But she gained a new awareness of the challenges facing academics who enter the fray.

On her first day of classes at Dickinson College, Jackie Joyce (left) met Brenda Bretz, who taught her freshman seminar and later became her mentor.

Faculty

For Mentorships to Work, Colleges Have to Commit

By Alexander C. Kafka

Professors’ guidance can be life-changing for students, but the relationships require sustained resources, rewards, and support for the faculty members participating.

News

The Cost of His Crusade

By Steve Kolowich

A famous scientist is determined to protect his reputation. What happens when an old friend gets in the way?

Ward Connerly (right), a U. of California regent, turns in petitions to the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters to place Proposition 209, which banned considerations of race in college admissions, on the ballot in this February 1996 photo.

Admissions

Before Harvard, Asian-Americans Were Thrust Into U. of California’s Acrimonious Affirmative-Action Debate

By Jack Stripling

Attacks on “academic whackos,” public floggings, and impugned motives have all been a part of the university’s tortured debate over whether race-conscious admissions disadvantage Asian applicants.

Crystal City, a locality in Arlington, Va., was chosen this week as one site of Amazon’s second headquarters. Nearby colleges and universities now want to be linked with the tech giant.

The Higher-Ed Factor

Amazon’s New Headquarters Is Coming to Northern Virginia. Here’s How Local Colleges Helped Make That Happen.

By Cailin Crowe

A “highly educated labor pool” was among the tech giant’s top criteria, and universities say they will deliver the talent.

A professor at the U. of Texas at San Antonio is being questioned after she allegedly called the police when a black student put her feet on a chair.

Viral Video

U. of Texas at San Antonio Investigates After Students Say Lecturer Called Police on Black Classmate

By Emma Pettit

The university is questioning a biology lecturer who allegedly called the campus police to remove a student from her classroom after the student rested her feet on a seat.

Academic Hall at the U. of Missouri at Columbia. The university’s 2015 protests drew national attention. A new report details what leaders of the flagship campus and the system have done to further healing and forestall renewed protests.

Campus Protests

Colleges Can Recover From Racial Crisis by Taking a Lesson From Mizzou

By Sarah Brown

The university’s 2015 protests drew national attention. A new report details what leaders of the flagship campus and the University of Missouri system have done to further healing and forestall renewed protests.

News

Is the ‘Trump Effect’ Scaring Away Prospective International Students?

By Vimal Patel

New data show a drop in enrollments from abroad. The president can’t take all — or even most — of the blame, but experts say his hostility to globalism could complicate colleges’ efforts to stanch the bleeding.