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March 5, 2021
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 67, Issue 13

Cover Story

Financial Aid
The Fafsa is tough, but the CSS Profile is grueling. There’s a human cost.

Highlights

Covid on Campus
At Central Methodist University, in Missouri, student needs and well-intentioned but insufficient preparations meant a fall semester of vast infection.
The Review
It showed a disturbing pattern of mismanagement and deceit.

Also in the Issue

Reopening Plans
Fall-semester plans overwhelmingly promise more in-person elements — with plenty of caveats.
State Politics
Republicans in the state legislature are pushing a bill to eliminate tenure, threatening the reputation of Iowa’s public universities.
State Politics
The state system’s wide-reaching response to one lawmaker’s request shows the heavy lift that results when politicians probe how social issues are taught in classrooms.
Finance
The average one-year return on endowments was 1.8 percent, down from 5.3 percent the year before, according to a new survey.
The Review
They’ve been treated shamefully, but they’re more resilient than people give them credit for.
The Review
As Harvard’s denial of tenure consideration for Cornel West shows, universities embrace activist rhetoric, but not activists.
The Review
Plans to temporarily suspend graduate admissions may backfire.
Advice
Five things that search committees can do to move more women and people of color forward in the executive-hiring process.