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Nov. 1, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 66, Issue 9

Cover Story

News
Oberlin College has announced that it will appeal the landmark jury verdict against it. But what led to that decision raises a question: Can the college regain the trust of its community?

Highlights

News
Recruiting faculty of color is one thing; retaining them is another. Some colleges collaborate to forge communities, and that may help.

The Chronicle Review

The Review
Colleges have portrayed themselves as helpless victims of his scheme, unmasked by the Operation Varsity Blues investigation. In reality, they have no one to blame but themselves.
The Review
What the responses to the eminent critic’s death tell us about academe today.
The Review
Who is Ron Vara? He seems to exist only in the books of Peter Navarro.
The Review
Did Susan Sontag’s husband steal credit for her first book?
The Review
An anonymous whistle-blower, a police investigation, and the battle between a professor and his mentor.
The Review
Being radical used to take a lot of work. Now all one needs to do is succumb, conspicuously, to hopelessness.

Commentary

The Review
Our metrics are based on the obsolete notion of a typical college student.
Advice
By Fred Schwarzbach
A former administrator offers a guide on how to get used to losing your authority and getting your schedule back.

Also in the Issue

News
Are colleges finally taking teaching seriously? Jesse Stommel isn’t so sure.
Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff
Some institutions managed to admit a lower percentage of students in 2017 than in 2007 and still increase the size of their freshman class.
News
Critics of the campus newspaper say that in asking Immigration and Customs Enforcement to weigh in on a student anti-ICE protest, the Crimson was irresponsibly endangering activists.
News
Marcia Conston, who recently retired from Central Piedmont Community College, will lead Tidewater starting next year.
The Edge
College Closures, Student Debt, and More Takeaways From the Road
News
In a statement released Monday morning, the Open Education Conference’s programming committee canceled the session, citing “abusive and harassing” posts and messages as the reason.
Campus Safety
A reporter for NPR Illinois was surprised to learn that she’d have to turn over story tips to a university’s Title IX office. Her situation is more common than you might think.
News
A study of 180 academic CVs finds that 56 percent claimed at least one publication that turned out to be unverifiable or inaccurate.
News
A new study suggests the National Institutes of Health is less likely to fund studies of health inequities and population health, but those are the very topics that disproportionately interest black scientists.
Teaching
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Admissions
Months after lawmakers voted to lift a ban on affirmative action, its fate again hangs in the balance. This primer will catch you up on the debate.