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Dec. 9, 2022Academe Today: Colleges Face Pressure to Keep Students With Mental-Health Conditions Enrolled
Hardly a rankings revolution; more on higher ed’s dead-end jobs; the free-speech crisis colleges ignore; retaining your best staff members; and more. -
Dec. 8, 2022
Academe Today: New School Threatens to Withhold Pay in Adjunct Strike
Citing financial and enrollment woes, a small college will close; how FIRE defends free speech; enrollment worries; leading on short notice; and more. -
Dec. 7, 2022
Academe Today: Higher Ed Is a Land of Dead-End Jobs (Opinion)
Caribbean medical schools exploit a loophole to get federal student aid; faculty diversity will never reach parity at this rate; and more. -
Dec. 6, 2022
Academe Today: Stanford President Says Inquiry Will Affirm His Scientific Integrity
Journal editor draws fire after diversity debate is derailed; GAO report assails colleges’ opaque student-aid letters; and more. -
Dec. 5, 2022
Academe Today: Should College Administrators Take Political Positions?
How the largest strike in American higher-ed history blew up finals; U. of Idaho responds to a quadruple homicide; pandemic-era grad rates; and more. -
Dec. 2, 2022
Academe Today: Is It Time to Pay Peer Reviewers?
The pandemic’s continuing impact on faculty morale; Supreme Court will take up Biden’s loan-cancellation plan; UC strike deal sparks debate; and more. -
Dec. 1, 2022
Academe Today: Disgraced Presidents Shouldn’t Get Tenure (Opinion)
Everyone’s wrong about FIRE; graduate enrollments rise with foreign students; new ideas for strapped colleges; defusing classroom conflict; and more. -
Nov. 30, 2022
Academe Today: Ohio State’s President Leaves Big Plans Unfinished
Toppling the tyranny of rankings; a race-neutral way to recruit diverse students; and more. -
Nov. 29, 2022
Academe Today: 60 Years After Gay Purge at Florida Universities, the Effects Linger
U. of California professors stop teaching in sympathy with strike; Stanford disciplinary process contributed to suicide, lawsuit says; and more. -
Nov. 28, 2022
Academe Today: Is This the Beginning of the End of the ‘U.S. News’ Rankings’ Dominance?
College reputations are fixed, and based on no evidence; a merger won’t save a community college; and more.
