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Admissions

A Fall Enrollment Disaster? Early Signs Say, Not Everywhere

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By Eric Kelderman

For some colleges, a later deposit deadline and strong retention of current students have helped make the headcount look more promising than it did earlier in the spring. (PREMIUM)

Admissions

‘U.S. News’ Will Start Ranking Test-Blind Colleges. But Will It Adjust Methodology for Test-Optional Ones?

By Eric Hoover

As Covid-19 disrupts ACT and SAT administrations, more colleges are suspending requirement of the tests. The “Best Colleges” guide will no longer penalize colleges that don’t consider scores at all.

Finance

2 Historically Black Colleges and UNCF Will Share $120-Million Gift

By Katherine Mangan

A co-founder of Netflix and his wife gave $40 million each to Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, and to the group formerly known as the United Negro College Fund.

Enrollment

Covid Obstacles Abound, but Colleges Can Successfully Recruit for Fall 2021

By Alexander C. Kafka

It will take a combination of cutting-edge digital advertising and old-fashioned people skills.

Fund Raising

Donor Conversations Are Buoying Confidence of Higher-Education Fund Raisers

By Emily Haynes (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Despite feeling more optimistic about meeting fundraising goals, many expect it to take as long as a year to make up the revenue they’ve lost since the pandemic began. (PREMIUM)

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Creating a med-tech innovation cluster

To bridge the research-to-patient gap, The University of Birmingham’s Healthcare Technologies Institute works with both physicians and med-tech companies to bring innovative new technology to the frontlines of medicine.

What Do You Wish Your Administration Knew About the Fall Reopening?

Administrators are weighing whether students, faculty, and staff will return to campus for the fall semester. Tell us what you hope campus leaders will consider as they make that decision.

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Advice

How a Postdoctoral Fellowship Can Be a Bridge to a Nonacademic Career, Too

By Leonard Cassuto

The 10-year-old Public Fellows Program offers a model for how to help new Ph.D.s — facing a barren faculty-job market this fall amid Covid-19 — make a career transition out of academe.

Special Reports

Coronavirus Hits Campus

As colleges and universities have struggled to devise policies to respond to the quickly evolving situation, here are links to The Chronicle’s key coverage of how this worldwide health crisis is affecting campuses.

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Student Life Today Requires New Technology

Planning for the eventual return to campus has decision makers looking to new tech to support the needs of student online ordering.

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How Will the Pandemic Change Higher Education?

We reached out to college staff members, professors, and administrators with a straightforward question: How will the pandemic change higher education? Order the collection to hear what they had to say. Chronicle subscribers: Access this premium content free.

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