Cover Story
The Review
Scholars and academic leaders on what matters — and why.
Highlights
Teaching
As the pandemic continues, the debate grows louder.
The Review
On the cravenness and cowardice of the corporate university.
Also in the Issue
Leadership Survey
Concerns about campus mental health and tattered institutional finances occupy the minds of higher-education leaders.
Covid-19
Deborah L. Birx, coronavirus-response coordinator for the White House, thinks a vaccine may reach colleges before the end of January.
Mental Health
Early data from campus counseling centers challenge the idea that colleges are on the brink of a mental-health disaster.
Data
At no point since the federal government began keeping industry tallies in the late 1950s have colleges and universities ever shed so many employees at such an incredible rate.
The Financial Fallout
A Chronicle survey explores the impact of the pandemic on fall enrollments and how colleges are planning for the spring.
The Review
Finances are already strained — and yet public colleges await budget-busting cuts.
The Review
Colleges have been quick to fall in line after Trump’s executive order.
Advice
How a virtual search process can lead to better, more equitable hiring.