Cover Story
The Academic Workplace
Faculty and staff members feel spent, right when they’re needed most.
Highlights
The Review
Colleges will lose power, prices will go down, and credentials will multiply — among other jarring shifts.
Pathways
Poor design and needless bloat are derailing students.
A Clash of Cultures
How accusations of dirty money derailed a career and disrupted a program.
Also in the Issue
College Journalism
After a lawyer sent a threatening letter about stories that were three years old, student journalists thought their university would defend them.
Faculty
One professor wanted her university to “be brave” and institute a mask mandate.
Campus Speech
The social-media app — once a magnet for hate speech, harassment, and threats of violence — is relaunching this fall. Will pandemic-weary students flock to it once more?
The Review
The pandemic has revealed higher education’s shortcomings.
The Review
Colleges are making a killing selling dubious credentials to naïve students. It can’t last.
Advice
The decisions you make about work options do not need to be permanent, but they do need to be thoughtful.
Advice
Why campus leaders must let faculty and staff members determine how much they work from home.