Cover Story
News
How a Texas State University course on sexuality became a battleground in America’s partisan divide.
Highlights
Backgrounder
Here’s what six months of college visits show about four leading Democrats.
The Chronicle Review
Commentary
The Review
George Washington University’s culture initiative is Mickey Mouse.
Also in the Issue
News
Neal Lester thinks that’s a cliché. The real question is, How do we communicate the value of the humanities without getting bogged down by defining it?
News
Amid the disease outbreak, professors are finding ways to monitor bias against Asian American and international students.
Gazette
Suzanne Rivera will become the first Latina president of Macalester, in Minnesota.
Admissions
A well-known enrollment official will become chief executive of a consortium of public and private institutions that runs a shared college application. In an interview, she discusses the organization’s role.
Admissions
Critics of the exams hoped a long-awaited report would weaken the grip of testing requirements. Instead it affirmed the status quo.
News
Before it placed its president on leave, Texas Southern’s board gave itself the ability to dismiss any employee. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” one expert says.
News
Trump’s new executive order reflects the vision of Kenneth Marcus, director of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.
The Value of College
A recent study ranked liberal-arts colleges by their long-term return on investment, but some college leaders say a college shouldn’t be judged on just one measure.
Admissions
The Johns Hopkins University made waves recently by saying it had quietly ceased giving legacy preferences. But there’s reason to doubt such a move would help colleges diversify their enrollments.
Admissions
In an interview with The Chronicle, the university’s director of admissions described the bottom-line reason for the policy change: The tests weren’t helping predict student success.