March 29, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 65, Issue 28-
InnovationDiversity Is Central to This Research Program. How Does Yours Compare?
Nurturing junior scholars of color is key to their careers, but also to the insights they may bring to HIV-prevention efforts. It’s a model, funders and researchers say, for work in other fields. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education: Harvard Gets $100 Million
An alumnus gave a major gift to support the redesign of Harvard’s arts campus. A $52-million bequest went to George Mason University’s law school. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘The Memo’
One of the responsibilities of higher education, a university administrator says, is to help students become ethical leaders. -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
The latest titles offer guidance on issues like how to help students cope after traumatic events on campus, and how to teach students with learning disabilities. -
News
Colleges’ Sexual-Assault Tribunals Are Unfair to Everyone Involved, Says a Professor: ‘We Can Do Better.’
In a new book a political scientist argues that the way the cases are handled on campuses harms both the accusers and the accused. -
News
Transitions: First Female President for Colorado State U., New Provost at U. of Maryland-Eastern Shore
Joyce McConnell will leave West Virginia University to lead Colorado State. The University of Maryland-Eastern Shore’s next chief academic officer comes from Yale University. -
The Review
Admissions Policies Lack Credibility. The Cure: Radical Transparency.
Colleges should be forced to defend their decisions in public. -
Read our investigation
Sports-Bra Outrage and a Fight Over Everyday Sexism
Women on Rowan University’s cross-county and track-and-field teams had complained for years about subtle sexism, and a ban on sports bras without shirts was a final insult. Now they say they’re still being treated like the problem. -
Leadership
A Confederate Statue Undid Carol Folt’s Chancellorship at UNC. But It May Have Landed Her USC’s Top Job.
In the throes of multiple crises, including the admissions scandal, the University of Southern California wanted a leader who had spent time in the crucible. They just got one. -
News
A Prominent Economist’s Death Prompts Talk of Mental Health in the Professoriate
Alan B. Krueger, a titan in the field, died by suicide last weekend. As colleagues mourned, they also noted an academic culture that makes disclosing mental illness difficult. -
News
As East Carolina Chancellor Resigns, One Board Member Accuses Chair of Forcing Him Out
Cecil P. Staton will step down as chancellor, and not everyone is happy with the move. Steven B. Long, a member of the university system’s Board of Governors, said its chairman is to blame and should be removed. -
Admissions Scandal
We Asked 20 Elite-College Admissions Deans About the Bribery Scandal. Here’s What They Said.
Outrage swirled after “Operation Varsity Blues” went public last week. So we asked the admissions gatekeepers if reform was necessary. -
News
Here’s What the Trump Administration Wants to Change in Higher Ed’s Landmark Law
The White House is asking Congress to rethink accreditation, Pell Grants, and student-loan repayment as it considers reauthorizing the Higher Education Act. -
News
Presidential Hopefuls Are Pushing Free College Back Into the Spotlight. But What Does ‘Free’ Mean, Anyway?
Candidates are staking out their positions, and new plans are emerging. But the proposals vary widely, creating confusion about whom they really help. -
News
The U. of Southern California Is on the Rise. Why Is It a Hotbed of Scandal?
The admissions-bribery scandal has poured gas on the fire of a university already smarting from corruption in the athletics department and in the upper administration. -
News
The Foundation at the Center of the Admissions-Bribery Scandal Has a Surprising Item in Its Portfolio: The Versatile Ph.D.
Harvard, Michigan, Rice, and other universities subscribe to the popular career resource for graduate students. Now, with the foundation’s leader indicted, the service’s future is uncertain. -
Admissions
Stanford Students Sue Elite Universities After Admissions Scandal
They say their applications to universities named in the unfolding scandal weren’t fairly evaluated in a system “warped and rigged by fraud.” -
Admissions
Caught in the Middle of Their Parents’ Bribery Schemes, Students Stay Silent
The children — many of whom were admitted thanks to their parents’ alleged involvement in admissions-bribery schemes — have not spoken publicly. Those with high-profile families have tuned out of social media. -
News
A Filmmaker Followed 12 Prisoners Through a Liberal-Arts Education. Here’s What She Learned.
Lynn Novick, a longtime collaborator of the documentarian Ken Burns, profiled the Bard Prison Initiative in College Behind Bars, a four-part series that will air on PBS this year. -
Advice
The Art of Executive Feedback
A great failure in our current academic system is the inconsistency of managers receiving — or providing — regular, specific, quality feedback on job performance.
