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The Higher Education Almanac

Aug. 23, 2019

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 65, Issue 40

The Profession

  • Colleagues decorated the office of Vince Formica to rejoice when he was promoted to associate professor of biology with tenure at Swarthmore College in 2018.
    News

    Tenure and Other Variations

    By Teghan Simonton
    Non-tenure-track faculty members may be doing much more of the instruction, but colleges are still holding onto their tenure systems.

  • Tenure Status & Adjuncts

    Faculty members deal with varied work situations, from being tenured to getting by on less-than-annual contracts. Here is an overview of their standing.
  • News

    Administrator & Staff Pay

    Take a look at what colleges’ 1.5 million full-time non-faculty members earn, on average, along with the pay for certain senior administrators.
  • News

    Chief Executives

    See how much chief executives earned, on average, and which ones received compensation of more than $2 million or even $4 million in one year.
  • News

    Faculty Pay

    Women’s salaries come closest to men’s at colleges where pay is moderate. See what professors are earning at all types of institutions.

Students

  • An online graduate program created eight years ago has been a runaway success for the U. of the Cumberlands, which uses the proceeds to subsidize the education of its residential learners. Tuition for on-campus undergrads will drop by 57 percent this fall.
    News

    The Strategies Behind Rapid Enrollment Growth

    By Kelly Field
    Some colleges that have expanded quickly are spending millions on advertising to recruit online students.

  • Enrollment

    While many colleges have shrunk, others have turned into mega-universities. See how enrollment varies among institutions.

  • Aid & Debt

    Americans owe close to $1.5 trillion in student-loan debt. We examine how students pay for college and how well they do in repaying their loans.
  • News

    Online Learning

    The proliferation of online courses has affected all sectors of higher education and has gotten many more students to take courses from home.
  • News

    Outcomes

    One of colleges’ clear goals is to get students to graduate and go out into the workplace. How well students accomplish that varies.
  • News

    Graduate Students

    See a profile of today’s doctorate recipients, the change in their numbers over time, and a list of the universities that awarded the most doctorates.

Diversity

  • Leykia Nulan, director of freshmen admission of UMass-Amherst, took action after learning that promising black students were being discouraged from applying for college.
    Backgrounder

    Why Has Black-Student Enrollment Fallen?

    By Megan Zahneis
    Colleges look for ways to reverse an overall decline since 2010.
  • News

    Gender, Race, & Ethnicity

    Whites make up just 56 percent of students but 77 percent of instructional faculty members and managers. See our breakdowns by race and ethnicity.

  • Diversity Indexes

    How diverse are your college’s students, faculty members, and managers? Use our interactive tables to find out.
  • News

    Changes in African-American Enrollment

    Enrollment of black students has fallen by nearly 365,000 since 2010. Several tables analyze where the loss is occurring.
  • News

    Age & Other Characteristics

    Representation of veterans, older students, parents, students with disabilities, and students of varying socioeconomic status is covered here.
  • News

    International

    See which colleges enroll the most foreign students, what places they come from, and where American students study abroad.

Finance

  • Mark Roosevelt (right) is president of the two-campus St. John’s College, and Walter Sterling is dean of the college at the New Mexico campus, where tuition is being slashed from more than $54,000 to $35,000. "We were actually embarrassed by our sticker price," Roosevelt says.
    News

    Getting the Price Just Right

    By Peter Monaghan
    To slash or not to slash, college officials wonder when their tuition pricing isn’t bringing the desired results.
  • News

    Tuition & Fees

    See which colleges charge the most, and how much tuition and tuition-discounting have risen over the years.
  • News

    Endowments & Giving

    More than 100 colleges have endowments worth more than $1 billion. Our tables list the wealthiest colleges and the ones raising the most money.
  • News

    Revenue & Spending

    Together American colleges took in more than $616 billion in the 2017 fiscal year, and spent more than $555 billion. See how those numbers break down.

States

  • Michael Oehrtman, a professor of mathematics at Oklahoma State U. at Stillwater, is one of five faculty members there who helped win a five-year, $3-million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve and standardize instruction in entry-level math courses across the state.
    News

    Coping in a Cash-Starved State System

    By Peter Monaghan
    Oklahoma’s colleges look for ways to make up for the shortcomings of students’ earlier education.
  • The States -- Almanac 2019
    News

    Compare the States

    By Ben Myers and Sandhya Kambhampati
    Explore data on more than 80 measures to see how your state is doing in relation to others on faculty pay, student aid, and more.