Cover Story
Covid's Toll on Enrollment
After losing nearly a quarter of its enrollment, Southwest Tennessee Community College figures out how to move forward.
Highlights
Data
More than a dozen institutions certified retention plans with management or “highly compensated” employees during a fraught stretch of 2020.
Equity and Diversity
The number of HSIs has exploded. But are all those colleges helping their Hispanic students?
Teaching and Learning
Pandemic conditions have pushed some faculty members to be more flexible — even when that’s a little scary.
Also in the Issue
The Skeptic
A dean found something fishy in a magazine’s list of business schools. The editors say he’s off base.
Title IX
The president promised to deliver justice to victims of campus sexual assault, but the department’s Title IX inquiries remain unresolved for years.
Race and Politics
The University of Nebraska’s “Anti-Racism and Racial Equity” proposal has become the latest focus of Republican hostility in the state.
Data
Throughout the many reports of declining enrollment during the pandemic, graduate education has been an unexpected bright spot.
The Review
Higher ed used to be insulated from the whims of the labor market. No more.
Advice
Instead of fretting over why their students might leave, colleges need to make sure each one has a good reason to stay.
The Review
What the University of Austin tells us about higher ed, the media, and the culture at large.
Advice
It’s hard to refashion an identity that doesn’t begin with “I used to be a professor, but now I’m not.”