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Nov. 24, 2023
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 70, Issue 7

Cover Story

The Review | Opinion
Israel, Hamas, and the contradictions of college administrators.

Highlights

Thinking Together
It’s one of the rare places where people who might have little in common are asked to learn together, and from one another.
Wise Gamble
UVA-Wise has invested half a million dollars in amenities and staff to try to bring the groups back.
The Review | Essay
Will courts continue to trust professors? The jury is out.

Also in the Issue

'Coordinated Assault'
Texts and emails made public as part of a defamation lawsuit detail behind-the-scenes attempts by students, faculty, and alumni to draw attention to the professor.
Campus Speech
Arkansas public colleges are subject to a state law that targets the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement. Similar laws exist elsewhere, but few affect colleges.
No-Cost College
The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination wants to create a federally funded “American Academy,” paid for by taxing the richest colleges.
Data
While the worth of a humanities degree has been called into question in recent years, a new state-by-state analysis shows its earning power is stronger than what many people think, with an unemployment rate similar to graduates in other fields.
The Review | Opinion
The Israel-Hamas war has empowered higher-ed benefactors. That’s distressing.
The Review
On the autonomization of protest culture.
Advice
Professors have always preferred to teach content over skills. But shifting that focus might just revive our graduate programs.
Advice
It is time to shift how higher ed talks about, pays, and makes use of presidents, provosts, and deans who return to the faculty.