Cover Story
-
News
The Witnesses
Inside the detention centers that shocked America, a professor and her peers bore witness. Their assigned roles quickly unraveled.
Commentary
-
The Review
How College Life Became the Hunger Games
Competition in all spheres of student life has ruined the fun of it all. -
Graduate Students
Anatomy of a Polite Revolt in Columbia’s English Department
In a tenure-track market where the odds of getting a job are never in your favor, graduate students are waking up and demanding more help from their programs.
Also In the Issue
-
News
Speaking Up About Free Speech on Campus
A professor searches for the right balance between free speech and academic freedom. Equality, he says, is at stake. -
News
A Dropout’s Coding School Joins a College
Ashutosh Desai, the founder of Make School, wants to create a college more like the high school he attended. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘Making Global Learning Universal’
Internationalization should affect all students on campus, not just those able to travel, says a book that guides colleges toward that goal. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education: A University Will Adopt the Name of a Donor
National University, which serves working adults, will add a credit-card billionaire’s name in front of its own. -
News
To Bolster Enrollment, Cleary U. Is Taking a Cue From Some Mega-Universities: Forming Corporate Partnerships
Despite enrolling less than 1 percent of the students that the large institutions spearheading corporate partnerships do, the university plans to expand its enrollment and its national footprint by offering free tuition to company employees. -
News
House Democrats Have a Plan for Higher Ed. Here’s What’s in It.
The College Affordability Act, which aims to restore spending on public institutions and lower the cost of attending, doesn’t pack the same punch as proposals from some progressive candidates for president. -
Campus Safety
More Than 1 in 4 Undergraduate Women Experience Sexual Misconduct in College
A survey conducted by the Association of American Universities found that more undergraduates reported knowing the definition of sexual assault and where to get help, compared with the group’s 2015 study. -
Debates
Colleges Spend Millions to Host Presidential Debates. What Do They Get in Return?
Among the benefits: thousands of media mentions, millions of television viewers, and exposure worth as much as $100 million. -
Leadership
Former Dean at U. of Alabama Will Get More Than $300,000 in Severance
According to a separation agreement obtained by The Chronicle, Jamie Riley will receive nearly two years of pay. Students and faculty members have demanded answers about his abrupt departure. -
News
‘This Is Where We Are, America’: After a Latina Author Talks About Race at Georgia Southern U., Students Burn Her Book
Jennine Capó Crucet’s novel Make Your Home Among Strangers was required reading for students in a first-year course. When she spoke to them about white privilege, some of them didn’t want to hear it. -
News
Stanford’s New Policy for Student Mental-Health Crises Is Hailed as a Model
It resulted from the settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by students who said they had been coerced into taking involuntary leaves and had been unfairly blamed and punished for appropriately seeking help. -
Campus Speech
To Protect Free Speech, U. of Wisconsin Is Poised to Double Down on Punishing Disruptive Protesters
The Wisconsin system’s board is expected on Friday to approve, on a permanent basis, the mandatory suspension or expulsion of students who violate others’ free-speech rights. -
Leadership
U. of Alaska President Acknowledges Contributing to a ‘Fractured’ System
James Johnsen says he stayed in crisis mode too long and failed to consider other ideas in response to budget pressures.