Admissions

Before Harvard, Asian-Americans Were Thrust Into U. of California’s Acrimonious Affirmative-Action Debate

Attacks on “academic whackos,” public floggings, and impugned motives have all been a part of the university’s tortured debate over whether race-conscious admissions disadvantage Asian applicants.

Sticker-Shock Strategy

A Fifth of Private Colleges Report First-Year Discount Rate of 60 Percent, Moody’s Says

The colleges are competing for a stagnant number of increasingly price-conscious high-school graduates, a survey finds.

Faculty

Dispute Over ‘Lingerie’ Comment Persists, as Society Rejects Professor’s Appeal

The International Studies Association said a joke about stopping an elevator at the lingerie department had violated its code of conduct. The scholar said he planned a defamation lawsuit.

Fear

Hate Crimes on Campuses Are Rising, New FBI Data Show

Attacks on African-Americans and Jews surged at some colleges in 2017.

Facilities

Higher Ed’s Spreading Problem: How Colleges Are Struggling With Campus Mold

Students have been evacuated from affected dormitories across the country as universities face a consequence of extreme weather and outdated buildings.

Special Reports

How to Draw Faculty to Workshops? Make It Like a Game

Awards like badges can get instructors more interested in teaching workshops, some campuses have found. But they don’t work everywhere.

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The Chronicle Review

The Real Cause of the Humanities’ Woes

The problem is politics.

Lingua Franca

How to Get a Hunting or Fishing License in Montana

Bureaucratic language is everywhere in higher education, but Roger Shuy is amazed at the language hoops that hunters and fishers have to jump through to get that license.

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