Cover Story
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News
‘Someone Is Going to End Up Dead’
The story of a rogue fraternity and the university that couldn’t — or wouldn’t — rein it in.
Highlights
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BACKGROUNDER
Why One Scholar Sees Little Evidence on Campus of a Free-Speech ‘Crisis’ — but Plenty of Panic
Jeffrey A. Sachs, a lecturer in politics at Canada’s Acadia University, believes that an overblown fear is gripping administrators and commentators. -
Town-Gown
Its City Was Hurting. The Schools Were Strapped. So This University Took Charge.
A controversial law giving Ball State University control of its city’s schools will soon be a year old. Can a state university confront long-term threats by focusing closest to home?
Commentary
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The Review
Academe’s Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, and Professional Collapse at the MLA
Taking stock of a vanishing world. -
The Review
Has Tenure Become an Instrument of Intimidation?
Senior faculty members assert their power by picking on people like me. -
The Review
Scholarships Must Open Their Doors to Dreamers
Creating arbitrary barriers to one’s success goes against America’s ideals. -
Advice
Admin 101: How to Become a Better Listener
Academics are used to doing lots of talking, but administration requires learning how to listen well.
Also In the Issue
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News
Transitions: Keuka College Gets a Permanent President, Davidson College Names a Chief Academic Officer
Amy Storey was interim chief at Keuka since July of last year. Davidson’s new vice president for academic affairs is a professor of economics. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘Teaching With Compassion’
An author’s book, and his life, model how to convey kindness, care, and concern to college students. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education: U. of California Campus Gets $30 Million to Study Homelessness
Environmental law and the roots of psychiatric illnesses are among the other research areas supported by recent gifts to colleges. -
News
More Diverse, Still Stratified: Colleges Fall Short on Offering ‘Good Value’ Spots
Authors of a new book argue that too many students attend financially struggling colleges that are barely equipped to serve them well. -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
Among the topics of the latest books are undergraduate research in the first two years of college and adapting high-impact learning practices to online education. -
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Transitions: New President at Iona College, U. of California at Los Angeles Selects Provost
Seamus Carey will step down as chief of Transylvania University to lead Iona. UCLA’s next chief academic officer is a dean at Princeton University. -
Backgrounder
Alabama Just Touched Off a Nationwide Fight Over Abortion. Student Activists Are Headed to the Front Lines.
The governor signed into law the country’s most restrictive abortion ban in May, spurring many students in the state to keep fighting for reproductive-health rights. -
News
Was Harvard’s Dismissal of Sullivan From Resident-Faculty Role Just? It Depends on Whom You Ask
Students cite a long history of friction, while the professor’s defenders say the accusations are ginned up. -
How We Got Here
Did Bad Blood Between U. of Oklahoma’s President and His Predecessor Hasten Sudden Departure?
James Gallogly made no secret of his disapproval of parts of the previous president’s record, but says he wasn’t out to get him. -
News
After a Title IX Investigation, This Professor Did Something Unusual: He Owned Up to His Misconduct
“Accepting responsibility means actually doing something, if you can, to spare the people you hurt from any more harm,” wrote Ian Samuel, formerly an associate professor in Indiana University’s law school. -
News
Private Colleges Set New Record on Tuition Discounts
Colleges are awarding more grants and scholarships as their sticker prices rise, according to an annual study. Here are five other findings about how institutions make and spend their money. -
News
After Protests, Swarthmore Will End All Greek Life on Campus
A sit-in and a four-day hunger strike by student activists led the college’s president to close all fraternities and sororities. -
Fund Raising
Ken Burns Says Hampshire College ‘Rearranged All of My Molecules.’ Now He’s Trying to Save It.
The filmmaker is co-chair of a committee to help the college raise $90 million over the next five years. He spoke with The Chronicle about why the struggling liberal-arts institution is worth preserving. -
News
Harvard Bans Former Scholar, Citing ‘Unwelcome Sexual Conduct’ Over Decades
Jorge I. Domínguez, a former vice provost for international affairs, “engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct” over “nearly four decades,” according to a long-awaited university investigation. He was the subject of a 2018 Chronicle investigation. -
News
Johns Hopkins Won Its Battle With Student Activists. But at What Cost?
The occupation of the university’s Garland Hall may be over, but the tensions that animated it are far from resolved. -
News
‘Israel Studies’ Journal Controversy Escalates as June Meeting Nears
The turmoil suggests a deep political rift that puts the Association for Israel Studies’ future into question. -
Textbooks
Planned Merger of Cengage and McGraw-Hill Could Remake College-Textbook Market
The deal, slated to close in 2020, might bring better deals to students — that is, if it doesn’t give the publisher more clout in negotiations with colleges and distributors. -
News
The Children of the Anti-Vaccination Movement Are Going to College. Are Universities Ready for Them?
Most colleges require incoming students to be immunized, but in many states, they can seek nonmedical exemptions.