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May 28, 2021
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 67, Issue 19

Cover Story

Sexual Assault
After a decade of debate over campus sexual assault, the rules are about to be upended again.

Highlights

The Financial Picture
Most colleges averted financial disaster. But the pandemic will still have a lasting impact.
State Politics
How critical race theory became Enemy No. 1 in the battle against higher ed.
The Review
Louis Menand on how the university came to absorb all of culture — and what happens next.

Also in the Issue

Leadership
Robert Caslen’s resignation brings an abrupt end to a tenure marred by political meddling and challenged by cultural disconnects.
Administration
The pandemic brought immense uncertainty and steep reductions to college budgets. Vermont’s scramble for staffers shows the risk of cutting too quickly.
Campus Health
Some institutions are telling students they can have a more in-person fall if a certain percentage of the campus gets immunized voluntarily. Will such incentives work?
Mental Health
Nearly 80 percent of professors talked about mental-health issues with students during the past year, but less than a third had been trained in how to do so.
Post-Pandemic Workplace
For months, colleges have weighed the risks and rewards of bringing students back to campuses disrupted by Covid-19. Now they’re considering what to do about their employees.
Advice
Inequitable workloads persist across lines of gender and race, but they don’t have to.
The Review
Their power, reach, and misplaced interests make them a threat to our communities.
Advice
How do you recruit faculty members during a pandemic, to a campus they’ve never set foot on?