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Oct. 25, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 66, Issue 8

Cover Story

News
Inside the detention centers that shocked America, a professor and her peers bore witness. Their assigned roles quickly unraveled.

Commentary

The Review
Competition in all spheres of student life has ruined the fun of it all.
Graduate Students
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
A professor searches for the right balance between free speech and academic freedom. Equality, he says, is at stake.
News
Ashutosh Desai, the founder of Make School, wants to create a college more like the high school he attended.
News
By Ilir Miteza
Internationalization should affect all students on campus, not just those able to travel, says a book that guides colleges toward that goal.
Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff
National University, which serves working adults, will add a credit-card billionaire’s name in front of its own.
News
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
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
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
Among the benefits: thousands of media mentions, millions of television viewers, and exposure worth as much as $100 million.
Leadership
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
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
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
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
James Johnsen says he stayed in crisis mode too long and failed to consider other ideas in response to budget pressures.