March 18, 2022
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 68, Issue 14COVER STORY
Highlights
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Crowd ControlTeaching a Sea of Students
Large-enrollment courses have a bad reputation. Here’s how colleges can make them better. -
A Circle of Support
The Redemption of Frederick Shegog
What a six-time dropout learned about getting through college.
Also in the issue
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Admissions
Berkeley Predicted It Would Have to Slash Enrollment by Thousands. Not So Fast.
The university had predicted that a court order would prompt it to slash the enrollment of its new class. But then it ran the numbers again. -
Publishing
The Essay That Prompted an Editorial Revolt
Eight student editors resigned from a law journal at Duke rather than be associated with an essay by Kathleen Stock on sex and language. -
Curriculum
‘Dangerous Ground’: Republican Lawmakers Target Gender Studies at U. of Wyoming
A measure to defund gender and women’s studies at the university has stoked faculty fears about how far legislators will go to stop public colleges from teaching courses they don’t like. -
Advice
After the Great Pivot Should Come the Great Pause
We’ve had two years of disruption. What we need now is time to rethink our approach to higher education on every level. -
Advice
Stop Playing It Safe: The Peril of the Generic College
Far too many institutions try to look like everyone else, when differentiation is the secret to success. -
The Review | Opinion
The Increasingly Authoritarian War on Tenure
Evidence has no role in right-wing attacks on the professoriate. -
Advice
The Path to Full Professor: Timing Is Everything
How to decide when (and whether) to seek promotion to the top faculty rank.
