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Nov. 12, 2021
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 68, Issue 6

Cover Story

Academic freedom
At least four professors have said their requests to participate in lawsuits challenging state policy were rejected. Faculty members say the stakes are sky-high.

Highlights

Campus Politics
How a racial-justice effort at the University of South Carolina became a smokescreen for inaction.
Value of Education
The imperfect science and contested methods of measuring the return on investment of college.
International
How investigations play out at different universities reveals a lot about higher education.

Also in the Issue

Dormzilla
A consulting architect at the University of California at Santa Barbara has resigned in protest of plans for a massive dorm of mostly windowless rooms conceived and financed by Warren Buffett’s business partner.
Campus Health
Public colleges in particular are caught between the wishes of different employees, state politicians, and the federal government.
Data
Combined with last year’s drop, undergraduate enrollment has fallen 6.5 percent since fall 2019.
College Access
Some experts see a lost opportunity to increase college access on a monumental scale.
The Review
At the University of Florida, the time for strategizing and threading needles is over.
The Review
My university’s choices undermined the very lessons I was trained to teach.
The Review
Faculty contempt for nonfaculty members is unjustified and destructive.
Advice
Too often, periodic evaluations of senior leaders are shortsighted. Here’s how to fix a broken system.