Dec. 10, 2021
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 68, Issue 8Cover Story
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Covid's Toll on EnrollmentCommunity Colleges Claw Their Way Back From the Pandemic’s Fallout
After losing nearly a quarter of its enrollment, Southwest Tennessee Community College figures out how to move forward.
Highlights
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Data
These Colleges Cut Back During the Pandemic. Except When It Came to Their Presidents’ Pay Packages.
More than a dozen institutions certified retention plans with management or “highly compensated” employees during a fraught stretch of 2020. -
Equity and Diversity
Everyone Wants to Be a Hispanic-Serving Institution
The number of HSIs has exploded. But are all those colleges helping their Hispanic students? -
Teaching and Learning
The Student-Centered Syllabus
Pandemic conditions have pushed some faculty members to be more flexible — even when that’s a little scary.
Also in the issue
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The Skeptic
Is This College Ranking Faulty?
A dean found something fishy in a magazine’s list of business schools. The editors say he’s off base. -
Title IX
Under Biden’s Education Dept., Sexual-Violence Investigations Drag On
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
How a Flagship’s Plan on Diversity Drew the Ire of the Governor
The University of Nebraska’s “Anti-Racism and Racial Equity” proposal has become the latest focus of Republican hostility in the state. -
Data
Where Graduate Enrollments Are Booming
Throughout the many reports of declining enrollment during the pandemic, graduate education has been an unexpected bright spot. -
The Review
Colleges Are Hiring. But Do People Want to Work There?
Higher ed used to be insulated from the whims of the labor market. No more. -
Advice
Have We Gotten Student Success Completely Backward?
Instead of fretting over why their students might leave, colleges need to make sure each one has a good reason to stay. -
The Review
The Guild and the Grifters
What the University of Austin tells us about higher ed, the media, and the culture at large. -
Advice
5 Factors to Consider Before You Leave Faculty Life
It’s hard to refashion an identity that doesn’t begin with “I used to be a professor, but now I’m not.”
