Cover Story
The Review | Essay
When Junot Díaz was accused of misconduct, he worked for me. Things got complicated.
Highlights
Aging Facilities
Campuses went on a decades-long building boom. The bill for maintaining them, which has rarely been fully met, is coming due.
Field Trip
The Johns Hopkins University professor has been a pioneer in the field of psychedelic research. Approaching the end of his life, he’s launching a new project that he hopes might help save the world.
Also in the Issue
Leadership
The tenure of higher-education leaders has shrunk again, a much-watched survey found. And they’re not leaving for the corner office elsewhere.
Law and Power
Graduate students sued Harvard last year, alleging it failed to protect them from sexual harassment and retaliation. The case, and the public pressure on the university, has not let up.
Publishing
The study, now set to be retracted, used fuzzy methods to claim that hundreds of thousands had died from Covid vaccines, critics say.
Data
At least 20 percent of campus chief executives want to learn more about nearly a dozen topics, according to the new American College President survey.
The Review | Opinion
U.S. News rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students.
The Review | Opinion
GPAs are going up, but colleges aren’t talking about it.
The Review | Opinion
Poor colleges are much more vulnerable to state interference.
Advice
An administrator’s front-row view of the competition for hiring senior staffers.