The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Case for Cluster Hiring to...

Oct 19, 2019 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

How one university finally made progress on its goal to hire more professors from underrepresented minority groups. The numbers are...

Can Starbucks Save the Middle ...

Sep 14, 2019 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

The much-hyped partnerships between companies and universities might make college too expensive for the rest of us. By Geoffrey M....

Here’s Why Alaska’s Governor T...

Jul 27, 2019 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

Poor graduation rates, overpaid administrators, and an overreliance on state funding are to blame, says Gov. Michael J. Dunleavy. The...

Enrollment Shortfalls Spread t...

May 23, 2019 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

A broad swath of private colleges across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions are expected to miss their enrollment goals for the...

How America’s College-Closure ...

Apr 11, 2019 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Michael Vasquez and Dan Bauman All across the United States, colleges are disappearing. As a result, the lives of students and...

What Happened When One Univers...

Sep 11, 2018 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Cailin Crowe = Three years ago, the U. of Texas at Austin took down a monument to Jefferson Davis and moved it to the campus’s...

The Princeton Review Has Laid ...

Aug 20, 2018 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Eric Hoover – The Princeton Review, a major test-preparation and tutoring company, has laid off numerous employees this year...

College Board President’s Lett...

Feb 22, 2018 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

Astoundingly tone-deaf.” “Tacky and self-serving.” “Overt product placement.” Those were some of the milder reactions to the message...

Why Everybody Loses When Someo...

Feb 16, 2018 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Erin Bartram – It happened in early January, when all my historian friends were at the annual meeting of the AHA, the...

Passage of Senate Tax-Reform B...

Dec 4, 2017 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

College leaders are bracing for major changes to the nation’s tax code that could weaken their financial footing by undermining...

The Fallacy of Open-Access Pub...

Nov 23, 2017 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Andrew V. Suarez and Terry McGlynn – Information is more accessible than ever. If you are curious about the cast of a TV...

Heckling Is a Staple of Contro...

Oct 21, 2017 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Liam Adams – Richard B. Spencer was met with chants of “Go home, Spencer,” “Black Lives Matter,” and...

In UNC Case, No Watchdog for M...

Oct 14, 2017 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Eric Kelderman – In 2012, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill acknowledged that a widespread scheme of academic...

Stephen Bannon Will Speak at B...

Sep 13, 2017 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s controversial former chief strategist, will speak at the University of California at Berkeley as...

DeVos Withdraws Obama-Era Memo...

Apr 11, 2017 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday withdrew three memos, issued during President Barack Obama’s administration, that had been...

What Liberal Academics Don’t G...

Nov 20, 2016 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

America left poorly educated whites behind. Their votes were misguided but understandable. All the election postmortems make me think...

Are We Teaching Composition Al...

Oct 8, 2016 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

Students understand why Barbie is sexist, but they can’t make their case in a coherent essay By Joseph R. Teller – My students...

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