Sept. 3, 2021
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 68, Issue 1Cover Story
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The Academic WorkplaceColleges Want a Return to Normal. Their Employees Want a Reset.
Faculty and staff members feel spent, right when they’re needed most.
Highlights
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The Review
5 Ways Higher Ed Will Be Upended
Colleges will lose power, prices will go down, and credentials will multiply — among other jarring shifts. -
Pathways
Is Your Degree Program Too Complicated?
Poor design and needless bloat are derailing students. -
A Clash of Cultures
Downfall of a Dean
How accusations of dirty money derailed a career and disrupted a program.
Also in the Issue
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College Journalism
Students Wrote About Allegations Against a Professor. Then the Articles Disappeared.
After a lawyer sent a threatening letter about stories that were three years old, student journalists thought their university would defend them. -
Faculty
As Delta Variant Surges, Faculty Urge Their Colleges to Change Course
One professor wanted her university to “be brave” and institute a mask mandate. -
Campus Speech
What Colleges Should Know About the New Yik Yak
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
Let’s Not Return to Normal When the ‘New Normal’ Finally Arrives
The pandemic has revealed higher education’s shortcomings. -
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The Review
The Great Master’s-Degree Swindle
Colleges are making a killing selling dubious credentials to naïve students. It can’t last. -
Advice
5 Questions to Help You Develop Your Remote-Work Policy — for Now
The decisions you make about work options do not need to be permanent, but they do need to be thoughtful. -
Advice
Build Your Remote-Work Policy on a Foundation of Trust
Why campus leaders must let faculty and staff members determine how much they work from home.
