Cover Story
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Backgrounder
How University Research Landed on the Front Lines of the Fight With China
An international science partnership between the United States and China that has grown stronger over 40 years suddenly seems to be decaying.
Highlights
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Genesis of a Scandal
The Origins of an Admissions-Bribery Mastermind Are Buried in a Confidential Report
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
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The Review
How Social Media Imperils Scholarship
It plays on our vanity to reduce research to a popularity contest. -
The Review
The Monograph Is Broken. Long Live the Monograph.
Does scholarly publishing have a sustainable future? -
The Review
How Google Scrambled the Academic Mind
Experts once structured and categorized knowledge. Now search engines do that task. The result? Anarchy. -
The Review
The Academy’s New Favorite Hate-Read
Is Quillette an island of sanity — or reactionary conservatism for the Ph.D. set? -
The Review
Fanning the Flames While the Humanities Burn
A debate over “privilege” threatens to overshadow the real problem. -
The Review
The Humanities Without Nostalgia
Harking back to an era of “peak English” betrays marginalized scholars. -
Commentary
What Really Happened at Stanford University Press: an Insider’s Account
It recently survived a mortal blow, but for the past 30 years, it has faced death by a thousand cuts. -
The Review
Nobody Wins if Graduate Students Can’t Organize
College leaders would be wrong to think the pending NLRB ruling should be celebrated. -
Advice
10 Things No One Told Me About Applying for Tenure
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
21 Dos and Don’ts for Journal Writers and Reviewers
Peer review is an inherently imperfect process, but here are some steps that would make it better.
Also In the Issue
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News
Transitions: U. of Tennessee at Knoxville Names New Chancellor, Schreiner U. Selects Provost
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
Colleges With the Highest Numbers of National Humanities Center Fellows
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
Want to Be a Happy Prof? Teach Kids How to Get Jobs
Teach less, teach better, and get your head out of your discipline, urges a seasoned public-policy professor. -
News
Transitions: Michigan State U. Selects New Chief, New Provost at Northeastern Illinois U.
The president of Stony Brook University will become Michigan State’s first permanent leader since January 2018. -
Student Loans
New Data in College Scorecard Promises to Lift Veil on ‘Debt Fueled’ Graduate-School Market
The additions raise troubling questions about students’ borrowing decisions and about colleges’ role in pursuing them. -
BACKGROUNDER
Let’s Clarify a Few Things About the New ‘Adversity Score.’ (First, Stop Calling It That.)
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
Labor Agency to Propose Rule on Grad Students’ Right to Unionize
Without a case pending, the National Labor Relations Board has announced its intent to determine the employment status of graduate students. -
News
2 More Faculty Members Lose Their Jobs Over Contacts With China
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
She’s Led the U. of South Florida for 19 Years. Now She’s Giving It $20 Million.
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
Low-Income and Minority Students Are Growing Share of Enrollments, and 2 Other Takeaways From New Study
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
The Enrollment Picture for Private Colleges Isn’t Pretty. But Some Say There’s Hope.
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
Enrollment Shortfalls Spread to More Colleges
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
A Commencement Speaker Pledges to Pay Off an Entire Class’s Student Loans
The billionaire Robert Smith makes a stunning announcement at Morehouse College. -
News
Every Year, Boston Asks Its Colleges to Pay for Their Footprint. Every Year, They Come Up Short.
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
Why Are SAT Takers Getting an ‘Adversity Score’? Here’s Some Context
Dozens of colleges are using a new tool that measures students’ socioeconomic disadvantages. It’s an attempt to quantify the challenges many applicants encounter.