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Nov. 8, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 66, Issue 10

Cover Story

Leadership
How an ugly campaign to force out an African American president exposed racial fault lines in a mostly white town.

Highlights

News
The 24-campus university has just won an award for a faculty restructuring that supports those off the tenure track.

Commentary

The Review
Colleges can’t stop what’s coming, but they can be better prepared.
The Review
Here are 11 things they can do right now that would make a difference.

Also in the Issue

Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff
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
A former Yale administrator takes a high-profile job in China at a time of geopolitical tension.
News
Susan Edwards, Wright State’s provost, will become chief executive in January.
Student Life
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.
News
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
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
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
An institution goes under after a series of poor strategic decisions — then says it chose to “withdraw” from accreditation.
In the States
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
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
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
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
University research libraries now realize they have a shared fate. More now say they have to work together.
News
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.