Weekly Briefing

Our most-read stories this month

By the time you read this, I will have just finished walking a portion of the Camino de Santiago, a historic pilgrimage in Spain, with my sister and father. That’s why this week you’re not getting the usual summary of one of our top stories. Instead, I’m sharing The Chronicle’s 10 most-read stories this month.

1. The Last Houses of Shoe Lane: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood
2. In These Red States, Professors Are Eyeing the Exits
3. When Your Professor Disappears and No One Will Tell You Why
4. What the Public Really Thinks About Higher Education
5. What Will Determine AI’s Impact on College Teaching? 5 Signs to Watch.
6. West Virginia U.’s Faculty Votes No Confidence in Gordon Gee
7. A Messy Divorce: The Dissolution of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Poses a Novel Risk to Tenure.
8. Here’s How Yale Is Changing Its Admissions Practices for a New Era
9. Meet the Cybersecurity Threat Haunting Community Colleges: ‘Ghost Students’
10. The ‘Linchpin’ Job That Sits Between the President and the Board

Lagniappe

• Learn. Americans return so many retail products that there’s a whole cottage industry devoted to our unwanted stuff. (The New Yorker)
• Taste. Want to show off your taste or wealth? Pistachios have been a luxury since the early Roman era. (Taste)
• Read. This is the story of two Naomis. For years, the writer and intellectual Naomi Klein has been mistaken for the author Naomi Wolf, who started her career as a feminist intellectual but is now known for peddling conspiracy theories. Klein follows her doppelgänger down a political rabbit hole. (The Guardian)

—Fernanda