News
Current and former presidents relate their stories of confronting — and overcoming — biases and stereotypes.
Leadership
Daniel Greenstein, a self-described “erstwhile postsecondary technocrat,” must turn around a collection of struggling campuses that compete fiercely with one another, as well as with an overcrowded field of other public institutions, in a state where he has only tenuous connections.
Chronicle List
Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8-billion gift could allow Johns Hopkins to make admissions permanently need-blind. Another gift will help MIT create a College of Computing.
News
A Princeton-trained scholar examines how Latin and Greek texts are being weaponized by men who want a scholarly gloss for their misogynistic posts.
News
Learning in college could benefit by being grounded in place and connected to the environment, an English instructor says.
News
Among the latest topics are how to make student transfers succeed, and an analysis of why white men on campus feel racially oppressed.
News
While colleges need not cast aside their historic mission, the authors of a new book say, they must still satisfy public demands.
News
Birmingham-Southern’s next chief is an adjunct professor and board member at the college. Danette Ifert Johnson will move from Ithaca College to Kalamazoo.
Big Gift
Higher-education experts weigh the pros and cons of the philanthropist’s gift.
The Review
Accusers would have more options than committing to a full-fledged investigation or doing nothing.
News
The long-awaited draft rules would replace the Obama administration’s guidance, which had called for more aggressive enforcement of the 1972 law mandating gender equity among colleges that accept federal money.
Faculty Misconduct
Current and former students say that the faculty members groped them, plied them with alcohol, and, in some cases, raped them, and that the college was slow to respond to their complaints.
Sticker-Shock Strategy
The colleges are competing for a stagnant number of increasingly price-conscious high-school graduates, a survey finds.
The Review
Jill Lepore on writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.
News
A European start-up thinks the technology will bring a new era of speed, cost reduction, and transparency. Skeptics aren’t so sure and point to a history of failed would-be disruptors.
Advice
You’ve already interviewed with the whole search committee in Round 1. Why do you have to repeat that exercise in Round 2?
News
Scholars concerned about repercussions from their work will have a new outlet.
The Review
Only when colleges seek a balance of socioeconomic backgrounds in admissions will truly diverse campuses be achieved.
The Review
They think they’re the center of the university. They’re not.
The Review
The academy has nurtured many partisan causes, but there seem to be few partisans of the academy itself left.
The Review
Nearing his 90s, Martin Duberman argues that the movement for equality has faltered.