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LEADERSHIP

Suspecting Plot to Oust Chancellor, Chapel Hill Faculty Gears Up for (Another) Fight

By Jack Stripling

After a contentious dispute over tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, professors see another threat on the horizon.

BACKGROUNDER

How Chapel Hill Bungled a Star Hire

By Jack Stripling

In the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure case, leaders settled for less and wound up with nothing.

MERGERS

The Plan Is ‘Not Perfect,’ but Pa.'s Public-College System Will Turn 6 Campuses Into 2

By Eric Kelderman

After a decade of falling enrollments and shrinking state appropriations, Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education has approved a controversial reorganization.

BACKGROUNDER

A System Leader Sells His Vision for Remaking Public Higher Ed

By Lee Gardner

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s chief has worked for months on a plan to consolidate six of its public universities into two new, combined institutions.

FREE COLLEGE

This College’s Tuition-Free Model Will Let Students Pay What They Can Post-Graduation

By Oyin Adedoyin

Hope College, a small liberal-arts college in Michigan, will provide endowed, full-tuition scholarships for 22 incoming freshmen this fall, with a plan to expand it to the entire student body over time.

NOW 582 COLLEGES

Here’s a List of Colleges That Will Require Students or Employees to Be Vaccinated Against Covid-19

By Andy Thomason and Brian O’Leary

More colleges are mandating vaccinations. Here are the ones we know about.

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ADVICE

What We Learned in the Pandemic About Graduate Training

By Debra W. Stewart and James R. Neumeister

Three Covid-inspired innovations shed light on what needs to change in graduate education.

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At vaccination clinics, Rowan University students lead … and learn

Staffing vaccination sites throughout southern New Jersey, students at Rowan University’s two medical schools volunteered to deliver vaccines to the front lines, focusing on marginalized communities and underserved populations.

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The Future of Teaching

How the Classroom is Being Transformed
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