Cover story
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Global Prospects
Is Africa the Next Big Thing in International Admissions?
Home to more young people than anywhere else in the world, the continent has a growing middle class.
Highlights
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Prison Education
How Prison Education Overlooks Women
For women serving time, fewer choices and more delays stand in the way of college degrees. -
Race and Politics
The Plan to Dismantle DEI
Model legislation lays out how legislatures could outlaw public colleges’ efforts to attract and retain people of color and other marginalized groups.
Also in the issue
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Sunshine Budgeting
DeSantis Asked Florida Universities to Detail Their Diversity Spending. Here’s How They Answered.
The amounts the state’s public universities reported spending on diversity and critical race theory came out to 1 percent or less of their overall budgets. -
'Economic Stress' On Rise
Why One Wealthy College Says It Needs to Cut Costs
Bates College occupies a fairly rarefied perch in higher education, but it hasn’t been immune to the inflationary pressures and rising expenses facing many institutions. -
Technology
Public Colleges Across the Country Are Banning TikTok on Their Networks. Here’s What That Means.
Will the bans, prompted by security concerns about the app, stop students from using it? “I would be very surprised if that actually works,” one expert says. -
Admissions & Enrollment
Where Applications to College Have Swelled During the Past Decade
Submissions to public and private nonprofit four-year colleges grew 46 percent from 2011 to 2021, according to a Chronicle analysis. -
The Review | Opinion
Do You Know How Much Your Colleagues Make?
Academe’s resistance to salary transparency is bad for everyone. -
The Review | Essay
A Better Way to Protect Free Speech on Campus
Grand statements of principle ignore classroom realities. -
The Review | Essay
Why I’m Not Scared of ChatGPT
The limits of the technology are where real writing begins. -
Advice
How to Empower Your Graduate Dean and Save the Ph.D.
It’s time to confer more money and authority on a position whose weakness in the campus hierarchy has always been a given.