May 15, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 66, Issue 29Cover Story
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NewsAre Colleges Ready for a Different Kind of Teaching This Fall?
They rallied to get through the spring after Covid-19 hit, but they’ll need to deliver a better learning experience if they want skeptical students to return.
Highlights
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Leadership
Welcome to the College Presidency. Oh, the House Is on Fire.
The Covid-19 pandemic will test the mettle and ingenuity of even the most seasoned college leaders. But some of them are brand new to the job. -
The New Tenured Radicals
After years of standing on the sidelines in the fight for adjuncts’ rights, more tenured professors are entering the fray. Are they too late?
Commentary
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The Review
Is Meritocracy an Idea Worth Saving?
Anastasia Berg, Ross Douthat, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Caitlin Zaloom discuss a contested concept. -
The Review
Universities Run on Disposable Scholars
Even before Covid-19, contingent faculty members could be cut for almost any reason. That’s about to get worse. -
Advice
How to Bridge the Mutual Distrust Between Leaders and Professors Amid Covid-19
It’s time — right now — for better communication from administrators about the pandemic fallout on campuses at this very moment, for the summer, and in preparation for the fall. -
Advice
How to Ace the Virtual Interview
Nine tips for administrative job candidates on how to avoid the many minefields of interviewing by video from home.
Also In the Issue
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Gazette
Transitions: U. of North Carolina at Charlotte Selects New Chancellor; 2020 Guggenheim Fellows Named
The next chancellor of UNC at Charlotte comes from the University of Toledo. More than two-thirds of this year’s Guggenheim fellows are in academe. -
Leadership
What’s Behind Colleges’ Bullish Statements on Their Fall Plans?
University leaders sound cautiously optimistic about their plans for the fall, even as experts agree there will be no return to normalcy. -
News
Prominent Scholars Threaten to Boycott Colleges That Don’t Support Contingent Faculty During Pandemic
More than 70 academics say universities that have offered tenure-clock extensions should also extend contracts of adjuncts and grad students because of Covid-19. -
How the Coronavirus Might — or Might Not — Slow Research Universities’ Ambitions
The pandemic may narrow striving campuses’ ambitious future plans. -
News
How to Recognize the Warning Signs of a Death Spiral — and How Colleges Can Avoid One
A checklist for leaders of colleges with small endowments, diminishing cash, uneven student demand, and stiff competition, and who are wondering what the future holds for their institutions.
