Cover Story
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Leadership
Fear of a Black Campus
How an ugly campaign to force out an African American president exposed racial fault lines in a mostly white town.
Highlights
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News
How Penn State Improved Conditions for Adjuncts
The 24-campus university has just won an award for a faculty restructuring that supports those off the tenure track.
Commentary
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The Review
The Enrollment Crash Goes Deeper Than Demographics
Colleges can’t stop what’s coming, but they can be better prepared. -
The Review
What Tenured Faculty Could Do, if They Cared About Adjuncts
Here are 11 things they can do right now that would make a difference.
Also In the Issue
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Chronicle List
Colleges That Hired the Most Full-Time Researchers
At a number of doctoral institutions, adding full-time staff members to do research took priority over adding full-time staff members to do teaching. -
News
What’s It Like to Work for a Chinese University?
A former Yale administrator takes a high-profile job in China at a time of geopolitical tension. -
News
Transitions: Wright State U. Selects New President, New Vice President for Student Life at Ohio State U.
Susan Edwards, Wright State’s provost, will become chief executive in January. -
Student Life
College Athletes Push for More Mental-Health Care, Fighting ‘Tough It Out’ Culture
A growing movement of college athletes is pressuring athletics departments to treat mental illness with the same urgency as musculoskeletal injury. -
The Edge
A Futuristic Report Staked Out 4 ‘Provocations’ for Higher Ed. Small Changes Might Matter Even More.
A Futuristic Report Staked Out 4 ‘Provocations’ for Higher Ed. Small Changes Might Matter Even More. -
News
The U. of Iowa Keeps Losing Diversity Officers. The Turnover Has Raised Alarms.
The newest diversity leader lasted six weeks before concluding it was “not the right fit.” And last week the only African American member of the president’s cabinet announced her resignation. -
News
NCAA Says It Will Allow College Athletes to Profit From Their Celebrity
Athletes should be given “the opportunity to benefit from the use of their name, image, and likeness in a manner consistent with the collegiate model,” the organization said in a news release. -
Admissions
U. of California Faces Bias Lawsuit Over ACT/SAT Requirement
The system’s testing policy denies low-income and underrepresented minority students equal access to higher education, lawyers representing students and college-access groups allege. A letter of complaint urges the university to “immediately stop this discriminatory practice.” -
News
Cincinnati Christian U. Will Shut Its Doors
An institution goes under after a series of poor strategic decisions — then says it chose to “withdraw” from accreditation. -
In the States
Athletics, Abortion, the Admissions Scandal — New Calif. Laws Take Aim at Higher-Ed Policy. Why?
It’s the latest instance of a state stepping into campus procedures. “Colleges want autonomy” along with significant state resources, said one lawmaker. “You can’t go both ways.” -
News
Maryland’s Giant Global Campus Is Restructuring. And Professors Were Asked to ‘Recompete’ for Jobs.
More than 100 people learned that their existing contracts with the Undergraduate and Graduate Schools would be terminated because the schools will no longer exist. Instead, they will need to reapply. -
Student Loans
A Republican’s Debt-Forgiveness Plan Sounds Great. But What Comes Next?
We asked experts to look at a politician’s proposal to erase almost $1 trillion in student debt after he resigned on Thursday from a top post at the Education Department and called the federal student-loan system “fundamentally broken.” -
News
Hundreds of Colleges May Be Out of Compliance With Title IX. Here’s Why.
Only a quarter of NCAA institutions meet a test that encourages gender proportionality between varsity athletics teams and student enrollment. What does that mean for the spirit of the law? -
News
The Future of Campus Libraries? ‘Sticky Interdependence’
University research libraries now realize they have a shared fate. More now say they have to work together. -
News
How Libraries Can Meet the Extracurricular Needs of Community-College Students
A new study shows that students “highly rated the library” as a place to turn for information about outside services such as child care and social assistance.