July 5, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 65, Issue 36Cover Story
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LeadershipWhat Happens When Women Run Colleges?
Communal, inclusive, democratic. That may be the future of college leadership.
Commentary
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Backgrounder
A Field Goes to War With Itself
While medievalists battle, white nationalists try to co-opt the past. -
The Review
The Tyranny of Trendy Ideas
Academics pretend to be above cheap and trivial fads. We aren’t. -
The Review
Meritocracy’s Discontents
The real problem with meritocracy is not that it’s anti-democratic, but that it’s inseparable from democracy. -
The Review
The Unbearable Pointlessness of PowerPoint
It has become the essential means of academic communication. A less-vibrant academic culture is the result. -
The Review
‘Affirmative Action Is Not About Equality. It’s About Covering Ass.’
Glenn Loury on race, surviving public humiliation, and why becoming the first African-American to earn tenure in the Harvard economics department was pure agony. -
The Review
What’s Wrong With Higher Education? A Lack of Purpose
Colleges assume that the public dislikes them because it doesn’t know them. It’s not that simple.
Also In the Issue
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News
Transitions: New Chief at Delgado Community College, Bismarck State College President to Retire
The chancellor of Baton Rouge Community College has been named chancellor of Delgado Community College. Bismarck State’s chief will step down after 13 years. -
News
Transitions: Bennett College Names New Chief, Taylor U. President to Step Down
Suzanne Walsh will become the president of Bennett. Taylor’s chief will step down after leading the university for less than three years. -
Chronicle List
Colleges With the Highest Average Pay for Associate Professors
Most institutions with the highest average pay for associate professors in 2017-18 were on the East Coast or the West Coast or in Illinois. -
The Chronicle Interview
Her Famous Student Didn’t Listen — and Is Paying a Big Price
Phyllis Gardner thought the next big idea in blood-testing wouldn’t work. Turns out, she was right. -
News
Transitions: College of DuPage Makes Interim Chief Permanent, New Provost at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison
Brian Caputo has led DuPage in the interim since Ann Rondeau stepped down. Wisconsin’s new chief academic officer is dean of the College of Letters and Science. -
News
A California Bill Would Put College Athletes on a Collision Course With the NCAA — and Their Universities
Senate Bill 206 would allow athletes to profit from their own name, image, and likeness. -
News
‘No Exceptions, No Questions Asked’: Progressives Propose Legislation Canceling All Student-Loan Debt
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar will introduce bills to forgive $1.6 trillion for 45 million Americans and make public colleges free. But scholars dispute whether a blanket fix would be best. -
Admissions
Who Would SAT-Only Admissions Help? White, Affluent Students
Removing all other factors from the process, says a report, would make the most selective colleges less racially diverse and “even more aristocratic.” -
Accountability
Michigan State Vows Transparency in New Independent Investigation of Nassar Scandal. People Are Skeptical.
“The board has decided to rip off the Band-Aid,” said one trustee. “There will be accountability.” -
News
Bruce Harreld Holds On at the U. of Iowa. Does That Mean He’s Succeeded?
Nearly four years after the businessman-president took the helm, opinions diverge widely on whether he has succeeded in leading the university from “great to greater.” -
News
Congress Is Taking On Reparations. At the First Hearing, Academic Historians Were Absent.
The legislation would create a commission to study slavery and the discrimination that followed, and make recommendations for repairing those racial injustices. -
News
Gender Harassment Can Mean ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’ for Women’s Careers. Here’s What Some Colleges Are Doing About It.
The National Academies have brought together a group of influential institutions to confront sexist behaviors that don’t rise to the level of a crime or a policy violation. -
News
Former Dream Center Students Could Lose Out on Loan Forgiveness Thanks to Education Dept.’s Mistake
A major error on the department’s website could prevent some displaced students from getting the loan forgiveness they’re entitled to. -
Backgrounder
‘These Cuts Have Real Consequences’: A New Study Surveys the Damage of State Disinvestment in Public Universities
A report concludes that less funding for the institutions is bad news for low-income students, general research, and state work forces. -
Admissions
Parkland Survivor and Former Turning Point Activist Says Harvard Pulled His Admission After Racist Speech Surfaced
The university said comments in 2017 by Kyle Kashuv, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting, violated its policies on students’ moral character, according to documents he posted. -
Campus Safety
A Student Is Expelled After Multiple Sexual-Assault Accusations. Could the University Have Stopped Him Sooner?
Joseph Chase Hardin was found responsible for sexual assault by Marshall University in 2016. He was cleared on appeal and allowed to return. Now he faces more rape allegations. -
Legal
After Campus Protests Against a Local Bakery, Here’s Why a Jury Said Oberlin Must Pay $44 Million
In the wake of the staggering decision, do colleges need to better educate faculty members about what language crosses a legal line?
