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Aug. 16, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 65, Issue 39

Cover Story

Admissions
An online community wants admissions leaders to confront racism and inequity. Yes, it’s supposed to feel awkward.

Highlights

News
By Alexander C. Kafka August 11, 2019
The idea of the meta-major is for students to find momentum and get going in the areas they’re passionate about “before choice paralysis kicks in.”

Commentary

Advice
By Ben Dumbauld
Given the weak tenure-track job market, why not make scholarly conferences a little more accessible for nonacademic employers in need of writers and researchers?

Also in the Issue

News
By Emma Pettit August 5, 2019
The alt-right says it despises so-called left-leaning academe, yet it’s eager for academics to prop up its theories.
News
By Steven Johnson August 5, 2019
Gun violence is “hyperendemic,” some researchers say, and they are struggling to rebuild its study following a long pause in federal funding.
News
By Nell Gluckman August 2, 2019
A spate of scandals has drawn attention to how the process of applying to college benefits the elite. College counselors say that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
News
By Sarah Brown July 30, 2019
Lou Anna K. Simon resigned as president in January 2018 amid the Larry Nassar scandal but remained on the faculty. She faces charges of lying to the police.
News
By Nell Gluckman July 30, 2019
Reports in ProPublica Illinois and The Wall Street Journal describe what admissions professionals say is a new loophole: Parents transfer their child’s guardianship to a friend or relative so the child doesn’t have to declare the family’s income when applying for financial aid.
Leadership
By Jack Stripling July 30, 2019
Steven Leath was warned that his big changes could cause “unrest.” A year later, he was gone.
News
By Eric Kelderman July 29, 2019
The state’s consumer-affairs agency is “working closely with colleges around the country” to encourage a speedy resolution by the U.S. Department of Education.
News
Chronicle Editors July 29, 2019
He began the newspaper in 1966 as an eight-page broadsheet designed to provide serious coverage of the nation’s colleges. In 1988 he started The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
News
By Steven Johnson July 26, 2019
The recently shuffled Board of Trustees voted to reset the community college’s search process, drawing scrutiny from faculty members and watchdogs.
News
By Emma Pettit July 25, 2019
About a year ago, Sen. Chris Murphy trained his eye on the college-sports industrial complex. He didn’t like what he saw.
Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff August 11, 2019
Only four institutions had four-year graduation rates above 90 percent.