Cover Story
Disenchantment
That makes many faculty members nervous.
Highlights
‘An Inflection Point’
The field is losing top talent even as the stakes of enrollment work are getting higher. The roots of the problem run deep.
Accreditation
Six out of the seven major institutional agencies are developing ways to assess how colleges serve historically underrepresented students.
Unfulfilled Predictions
Are you tired of reading nearly annual predictions of a looming wave of colleges shutting down? Not nearly as tired as one Chronicle reporter.
Also in the Issue
Faculty in the Cross Hairs
The governing board endorsed on Wednesday a process for post-tenure review that creates a uniform method for dismissals across the 12-campus State University System.
Bills to Ban DEI
Conservatives in some states want to deputize the general public to sue if they think a college is deploying banned diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Bureaucracy
Betsy DeVos’s recent commentary in The Wall Street Journal said the university has more administrators than undergraduates. That’s true, but the full picture is much more nuanced.
Community Colleges
Nearly one in five community-college students in the fall of 2021 was a dual-enrollee.
The Review | Opinion
Republicans are irate that their plans to remake higher education are being stymied.
Advice
What it’s like to be asked by state lawmakers to justify your life’s work.
The Review | Opinion
Their hypersensitive activism will not make them good lawyers.
Advice
How to cope with the psychological jolts that will greet you when you move into a leadership post on short notice.