Academe Today

Leadership & Governance

What Will It Take to Change the College Presidency?

Most community-college leaders are white men. The next generation demands diversity.

Students

Mizzou’s Freshman Enrollment Has Dropped by 35% in 2 Years. Here’s What’s Going On.

University of Missouri at Columbia officials were bracing for a decline, though not this significant, given the fallout from protests there in 2015. Now, they say, its public image needs a makeover.

Teaching

After Immigration Officer Was Forced From Classroom, Students Lament a Missed Opportunity

Protesters shut down an official’s lecture at Northwestern University, leaving the professor and students upset they didn’t get a chance to engage and learn.

The Ticker

Education Dept. Says It Will Pick Single Loan Servicer

The department also said it was dropping cumbersome, confusing, and costly rules. Critics said the moves would make the agency overly reliant on a single student-loan company.

The Ticker

Hoax Article in Social-Science Journal Gets a Rise Out of Some Scholars

"The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct" takes aim at the "fashionable nonsense" of the field as well as "pay-to-publish journals with lax standards."

Chronicle Focus

In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are nearly 25. Here are a couple of examples:

Are Colleges Engines of Inequality?

Higher education still falls short of providing enough opportunity to low-income students. This 44-page collection looks at some of the root causes of that phenomenon, and how colleges might better serve disadvantaged students.

How to Be a Dean

Academic deans are expected now more than ever to push their schools to evolve. The seven articles in this collection offer insights into how deans handle all the demands on them.

Advice

The Joys and Downsides of Hate-Reading

Life’s too short to keep reading a book you hate. Why not stop?

Commentary

Engineers Need the Liberal Arts, Too

Our vitality in the arts and humanities contributes directly to our national innovation edge, even in the technical world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Lingua Franca

Hedging One’s Bets

Bill Germano explains what recent events might teach us about hiding in the shrubbery.