Oct. 11, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 66, Issue 6Highlights
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NewsThis College Teaches Conflict Resolution to All Freshmen. Here’s How.
Harvey Mudd’s freshmen are clever with machines, but dealing with fellow human beings requires different skills.
The Chronicle Review
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BACKGROUNDER
The Great Enrollment Crash
Students aren’t showing up. And it’s only going to get worse. -
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The Review
My University Is Dying
How a ruthless demand for austerity bleeds public universities dry. -
The Review
Academia’s Holy Warriors
How a network of Catholic intellectuals is making the case against liberalism. -
Also In the Issue
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News
Want a More Diverse Campus? Start at the Top
Fewer than a fifth of college presidents are people of color. Ajay Nair, president of Arcadia University, explains why that’s unacceptable, and how he’s diversifying the leadership ranks at his own institution. -
Chronicle List
Which Colleges Pay Assistant Professors the Most?
Four public doctoral universities paid their assistant professors an average adjusted nine-month salary of more than $100,000. -
The Review
Asian Americans Are Not Affirmative Action’s Victims
The Harvard case has highlighted our fatigue over being muted as racial pawns. -
News
Transitions: Kentucky Wesleyan College Selects New Chief, Provost Named at Texas Tech U. Health Sciences Center
Kentucky Wesleyan’s next president now leads Dickinson State University. A dean has been appointed chief academic officer at the Health Sciences Center. -
A Win for Diversity
3 Key Passages From the Harvard Decision
The university’s race-conscious admissions process does not discriminate against Asian American students, Judge Allison Burroughs ruled. -
Affirmative Action
‘Everything Is Not Sunshine’: What the Harvard Decision Means for Race-Conscious Admissions
The challenge, from Students for Fair Admissions, may still end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. -
News
Meet the Researchers Fighting Back Against Rogue Peer Reviewers and ‘Citation Cartels’
Coercive citation has drawn increased attention in recent years. Last month two researchers at the Dutch publishing giant Elsevier published a study that examined the citation patterns of nearly 55,000 reviewers for its journals. -
News
Alaska’s Accreditor Issues a Warning to the System
The universities have been ordered to act immediately to clarify leadership roles and responsibilities. -
Backgrounder
California’s Athlete-Compensation Law Is Now Official, Posing a Serious Challenge to the NCAA
The California governor signed the bill into law on the HBO show of one of its most vocal proponents: the professional basketball player LeBron James. -
News
Despite Obstacles, Black Colleges Are Pipelines to the Middle Class, Study Finds. Here’s Its List of the Best.
Almost 70 percent of HBCU students achieve what the researchers describe as incomes that are middle class or higher. -
Ethics of Admissions
‘Welcome to the Wild West’: The Competition for College Applicants Just Intensified
Under pressure from the Justice Department, admissions officials have changed the ethics code that governs the recruitment process. Now many of them expect bidding wars and poaching of students. -
Student Retention
Can ‘Microscholarships’ Steer Student Behavior?
Wayne State University experiments with giving students small credits toward their bill when they take actions, like attending a tutoring session or going to a campus event, that are associated with retention. -
Tainted Gifts
Universities Cut More Ties With Donors Who Grew Rich on Painkillers
Brown University said this week it would redirect money it had received from a Sackler foundation to nonprofit groups fighting the opioid epidemic. Other universities have said they no longer accept gifts from the Sackler family. -
Enrollment
The U. of Montana Has Lost More Students This Decade Than Any Other Flagship. What’s Going On?
Undergraduate enrollment has declined by more than 40 percent since 2011. And it’s not only because of a high-profile sexual-assault scandal.
