Cover Story
The Review | Essay
A former president of the university explains how we got here.
Highlights
'A New Sort of Proxy War'
When the university learned of alleged plagiarism by Claudine Gay, it scrambled to stop the scandal before it began.
Workplace Ethics
Raj Chetty’s research skewers elitist systems. But some former employees say his lab is part of the problem.
Austerity Ahead
A flawed budget model and excess spending are among the reasons given by administrators for “draconian cuts.”
Also in the Issue
Citation Anxiety
At their annual conference, the scholars pondered a new reality in which citations and footnotes become new fronts in the culture wars.
Leadership
In the past year, two high-profile leaders lost their jobs over claims about their published work, raising questions about whether more can be done to catch red flags before they become a scandal.
Financial Aid
As the new year began, uncertainty reigned over the process that the streamlined FAFSA was meant to simplify.
Data
Twenty-nine institutions spent more than $1 billion on research and development in the 2022 fiscal year, according to new federal data.
The Review | Opinion
How to make campus culture welcoming, but still argumentative.
The Review | Essay
Should college courses really be resorting to clickbait?
Advice
A quarter century ago, an MLA leader was pilloried for advocating “career diversity” for English Ph.D.s. The discipline is finally catching up.
Advice
If teaching is so easy, why do so many tenured professors take such great pains to avoid it?