The Trends Report 2022
Political Interference
Public flagships in conservative states face reputational and recruiting challenges.
The Future of Enrollment
Higher ed’s future, and the economy, depends on their coming back to college.
Reimagining Space
After a yearslong surge in construction, colleges retrench and retool.
The Faculty Experience
The tradition will probably survive. But it could look very different.
Who's In Charge Here?
America has turned against the way college leaders run sports, with its billions in revenue and unpaid athletes.
Life of the Mind
The in-person conference is staging a comeback. But can it compete with the convenience of our computer screens?
The Trends Report
Keep an eye out for these developments percolating across higher ed.
Also in the Issue
UF Backstory
More than two weeks before controversy erupted over the institution’s denying scholars the right to be expert witnesses, one professor offered to take an unpaid leave to do so.
Law and Power
The complaint contains explosive allegations against the university and John Comaroff. The plaintiffs’ stories were first told by The Chronicle in 2020.
Campus Safety
As historically Black colleges and universities reel from a wave of bomb threats, experts reflect on racist violence from Reconstruction to the present.
Data
State spending on higher education in the 2022 fiscal year increased from the previous year — fueled, in part, by some states’ reversal of the funding cuts they made during the pandemic-induced recession.
The Review | Opinion
They tell a simple story: Harvard is bad, CUNY and Cal State are good. It’s not that straightforward.
The Review | Essay
The overall outlook has improved. But there will be winners and losers.
Advice
Six ways that faculty members can better support students without exhausting ourselves in the effort.
Advice
Institutions must go beyond vying for the same small group of minority scholars.