Cover Story
The Undergraduate Experience
Engineering a better college experience requires more than tinkering around the edges.
Highlights
Package
A series about college applicants and the circumstances that shaped their choices this spring.
Prestige Encounters
Want to understand the relationship between a ubiquitous ranking and the colleges on it? An annual meeting tells the story.
Also in the Issue
Post-'Roe' America
Some students and professors say they’re thinking seriously about staying away from campuses in states where abortion is outlawed. They may be outliers.
Plagiarism Charge
Kevin Kruse is known for correcting and skewering right-wing pundits and politicians. Now he’s been accused of lifting sentences in his dissertation, and his enemies are piling on.
Marketing
Records show the unusual brand word wasn’t popular with everyone in the university community. And one expert called its approval “a very stupid decision.”
Academic Job Market
About 40 percent of those who earned doctorates in 2020 found jobs in academe, about the same share as those who were offered positions in industry.
The Review | Essay
The professor-student relationship has been irrevocably changed — and not for the better.
The Review | Essay
On the ideological posturing and moral nitpicking of the very online.
Advice
Advice for administrators who are on the fence about continuing their career on a college campus.