Sept. 4, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 67, Issue 1Cover Story
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The ReviewThe Future of the Academic Work Force
How will the pandemic change the way higher education works?
Highlights
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Social Mobility
A Crusade Against Terrible Advising
College is a rigged game, says Ned Laff. But students could be shown how to win it. -
Governance
Will Covid-19 Revive Faculty Power?
The pandemic has spurred professors across the country to organize. Are they too late?
Advice
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Advice
Why Is It So Difficult to Hire Vice Presidents and Provosts?
Setbacks in a senior-leadership search usually have less to do with the applicants and more to do with the institution — a case of “it’s not you, it’s us.”
Also in the Issue
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Collective Bargaining
How Covid-19 United the Higher-Ed Work Force
Professors are joining forces with grad students and housekeepers in a lawsuit and a planned strike. -
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Public Health
Chapel Hill and Notre Dame Are Just the Beginning
Both institutions have had to flip online in response to rapidly rising levels of infection. Public-health experts say other campuses will very likely suffer similar fates. -
Surprising Impacts
10 Ways the Coronavirus Has Shaped Higher Ed and Its World
Covid-19 has tested colleges, strained students and the work force, and spilled into surrounding communities, sometimes in unexpected ways. -
The Review
Don’t Blame Colleges for the Coming Fall Debacle
This is just what higher education looks like in a failed state. -
The Review
How Not to Defend Elite Universities
They will never be bastions of social mobility. That doesn’t mean they don’t provide great societal benefits. -
The Review
First They Came for Adjuncts, Now They’ll Come for Tenure
If college administrators take the current crisis as an opportunity to eliminate tenure once and for all, who’s going to stop them?
