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March 6, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 66, Issue 24

Cover Story

News
Some colleges that counted on an increase in international students that didn’t come through now have to shift strategies.

Highlights

Leadership
Appalachian State University is one of several public institutions that have parlayed good reputations and nonflagship tuition prices into more students. But growth can bring other problems.
The Chronicle Review
Academe is awash in refrains about its own importance. Is anyone feeling better yet?
The Review
By Robert Zemsky, Susan Shaman, Susan Campbell Baldridge
Forty percent of institutions are destined to struggle. What to do? Here’s what works — and what doesn’t.

Commentary

The Review
By Agnes Callard
They subject students to the narrowness of the professorial mind.
Advice
The best way to defend yourself against the unscrupulous is to understand academe’s version of the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual.”

Also in the Issue

News
Colleges have benefited from a bull market for almost 11 years. But bull markets do eventually end.
News
It’s fund raising, and presidents agree on its centrality to their duties.
Gazette
Gregory Washington will become chief executive of George Mason this summer. Whitworth’s provost comes from North Park University, in Chicago.
News
Want a complete education? Look to the Bard.
The Edge
Good intentions go only so far when the goal is to enroll more low-income students.
News
Some universities use commercial banks’ experts, materials, and funding to teach students financial literacy. What rules an institution sets for such arrangements depends on which one you ask.
News
In the letters, the department appeared to urge a thorough accounting of all programs, activities, and people funded with money from foreign entities — no matter how small.
News
Accepted applicants who submit an enrollment deposit to Albion College by March 6 will be entered in a drawing. Prizes include a free meal plan.