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Oct. 15, 2021
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 68, Issue 4

Cover Story

Fair Financing
For decades, states have been funding their white campuses while starving their Black ones. In Tennessee, that could finally change.

Highlights

Emerging From the Pandemic
Stretched supply chains and short-staffed campuses have left students hungry and parents angry.
The Review
Parenthood can be punishing for academics. Too often, colleges fail them.
The Review
The philosopher Amia Srinivasan on sex, ethics, consent, and Freud.

Also in the Issue

Student Life
Would abolishing frats actually reduce campus sexual assault?
Gender Equity
A Rutgers faculty member who learned she made $21,000 less than two peers says she’s being offered a $2,000 raise. She’s not happy.
Dept. of Deeply Weird
They’re ridiculous mash-ups of sports research and geological sciences. How so many of them made it into a journal is a mystery, but there are some clues.
Data
Campus protests and polarization were seen as the lowest-priority issue among senior administrators in a new survey.
Advice
If it’s code for “some students deserve to be here, and some don’t,” then it needs to go.
The Review
When we judge scholarship only as politics, something crucial is lost.
Advice
Advice on helping faculty and staff members who have become the targets of internet trolls.
Advice
A lot of administrators could benefit from leadership training. Here are the pros and cons of different options.