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Admissions
By Eric Hoover
 

Both sides in a closely watched legal battle over race-conscious admissions made closing arguments in federal court on Wednesday. The judge heard allegations of discrimination — and several Orwell references.

 

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Faculty
By Emma Pettit
 

Last summer, scholars wrote letters to people who had been detained by immigration agents at the local prison. Detainees wrote back. PREMIUM

Finance
By Dan Bauman
 

It will take the Ohio university 20 years to return to the fiscal strength it held earlier in the decade. What went wrong? The answer is a mix of spending and scandal. PREMIUM

In the Classroom
By Steven Johnson
 

A lecturer’s online discussion raises questions about the presence of partisan ideology in grading. PREMIUM

From the Archives
By Steve Kolowich
 

The university system commissioned a Gallup survey after a liberal graduate student berated a conservative undergrad. Among other things, Gallup found that some students — and faculty members — were anxious about speaking their minds.

Students
By Sarah Brown
 

A new report on race and ethnicity from the American Council on Education finds gaps in achievement and borrowing for black students particularly alarming.

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The Chronicle Review
By Aaron Hanlon
 

Reduced teaching loads are not moving scholars away from the classroom — they’re allowing scholars to be better teachers.

 

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By John T. McGreevy
 

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