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June 7, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 65, Issue 34

Cover Story

Backgrounder
An international science partnership between the United States and China that has grown stronger over 40 years suddenly seems to be decaying.

Highlights

Genesis of a Scandal
The University of California at Los Angeles questioned Rick Singer, who orchestrated a vast criminal admissions scheme, in 2014. The report, published here for the first time, presages the pay-for-play mentality that federal prosecutors say inspired widespread corruption in college admissions.

Commentary

The Review
It plays on our vanity to reduce research to a popularity contest.
The Review
By Niko Pfund, Mandy Hill
Does scholarly publishing have a sustainable future?
The Review
Experts once structured and categorized knowledge. Now search engines do that task. The result? Anarchy.
The Review
Is Quillette an island of sanity — or reactionary conservatism for the Ph.D. set?
The Review
A debate over “privilege” threatens to overshadow the real problem.
The Review
By Devin M. Garofalo, Anna Hinton, Kari Nixon, and others
Harking back to an era of “peak English” betrays marginalized scholars.
Commentary
By Grant Barnes
It recently survived a mortal blow, but for the past 30 years, it has faced death by a thousand cuts.
The Review
College leaders would be wrong to think the pending NLRB ruling should be celebrated.
Advice
Compiling a tenure file forces you to confront who you are and what you’ve done, and to reimagine who you want to become.
Advice
By Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Wendy Troop-Gordon
Peer review is an inherently imperfect process, but here are some steps that would make it better.

Also in the Issue

News
Tennessee’s new leader will come from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Schreiner’s next provost is leaving a post as vice president for university mission.
Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff
The colleges with the most fellows over the past 42 years awarded an estimated 1 percent to 22 percent of their degrees in the humanities in 2016-17.
News
Teach less, teach better, and get your head out of your discipline, urges a seasoned public-policy professor.
News
The president of Stony Brook University will become Michigan State’s first permanent leader since January 2018.
Student Loans
The additions raise troubling questions about students’ borrowing decisions and about colleges’ role in pursuing them.
BACKGROUNDER
The College Board’s Environmental Context Dashboard has caused a lot of confusion. Now the organization is trying to explain its new measure of applicants’ disadvantage.
News
Without a case pending, the National Labor Relations Board has announced its intent to determine the employment status of graduate students.
News
The latest are at Emory University, which investigated the professors following a warning from the National Institutes of Health about foreign influence on American research.
Fund Raising
Judy L. Genshaft’s gift, one of the largest from a president to her institution, will help construct an honors-college building in her name.
News
By Zipporah Osei
The students are attending college in greater numbers than they were two decades ago, but they’re more likely to attend less-selective institutions, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.
News
Higher-ed experts weren’t surprised at troubling shortfalls in the Northeast. But they disagreed about what the trend meant — and how colleges should respond.
News
The private institutions, in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, have rarely, if ever, had to worry about filling their classes.
$40-Millon Graduation Gift
The billionaire Robert Smith makes a stunning announcement at Morehouse College.
News
By Zipporah Osei
The city created a voluntary program to collect revenue from its largest tax-exempt institutions, like Harvard and Boston Universities. But as contributions fall off, activists demand that the city get tougher.
Backgrounder
Dozens of colleges are using a new tool that measures students’ socioeconomic disadvantages. It’s an attempt to quantify the challenges many applicants encounter.