Oct. 2, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 67, Issue 3Cover Story
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PoliticsThe New Order
How the nation’s partisan divisions consumed public-college boards and warped higher education.
Highlights
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College Rankings
The Rules of the Game
How the U.S. News rankings helped reshape one state’s public colleges.
Also in the Issue
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Residence Life
Covid-19 Pushes RAs to the Breaking Point: Some Are Striking. Others Quit.
This fall, the already-heavy load on resident advisers is becoming unbearable for a growing number of them. -
Perspective on the Pandemic
A Tool to Inform Too Often Confuses
The lack of uniformity in Covid-19 dashboards undermines their value. -
Athletics
‘A Scene Out of Gladiator’: Big Ten Football Players Get Daily Coronavirus Tests, but Other Students Don’t
Football games will return next month to the conference, with regular tests of coaches and players. What about testing for their classmates? -
Geography
On the Journey to and Through College, Location Matters
The hurdles to earning a college degree are many — confusion about the application process, lack of academic preparation, and cost, to name just a few. -
The Edge
The Edge: Which Practices Paused by the Pandemic Should Just Never Come Back?
It’s hard to imagine going to a salad bar again. Tell us what academic fixtures people would be better off without. -
Advice
What if Everyone on Campus Understood the Money?
Administrators do not make a practice of ensuring that faculty and staff members grasp the details of campus finances, but they should. -
The Review
Ed-Tech Mania Is Back
Utopia-minded tech gurus promise they’ll solve all of academe’s problems. They won’t. -
Advice
8 Practical, Sustainable Steps to a Diverse Faculty
The best practices for increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of your faculty are neither mysterious nor terrifically expensive.
