Confessions of an Admissions Officer

The process can make a fool or liar out of anyone.

How Colleges Deepen Inequality

America likes to see itself as a meritocracy, and college as an engine of social mobility. In reality, writes Richard V. Reeves, “higher education has become a powerful means for perpetuating class divisions.” How did that happened, and what can colleges do about it?

Labor Issues

What’s a Fair Wage for Adjuncts?

For the City University of New York’s faculty union, the answer is $7,000 per course.

Teaching

Teaching Is a Private Act. How Can Professors Open Up About It?

Efforts to spark conversations about pedagogy can be large-scale or ad hoc, but they all require a level of trust.

Disaster Planning

California Wildfires Upend Exams at Region’s Colleges and Heighten Tensions at UCLA

At least 10 institutions canceled classes on Thursday, only days before finals were to start. Meanwhile, students at the University of California at Los Angeles were angry over what they called a delay in its emergency-notification system.

Government

House Republicans May Be Backing Away From Taxing Grad-Student Tuition Waivers

Thirty-one lawmakers, led by Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, sent a letter on Thursday to leaders of the House and the Senate urging them to prevent the provision from making it into final tax legislation.

Politics

Higher-Ed Lobbyists Are Told to Make Peace With Republicans

Stop with the playground spats about state appropriations, said the opening speaker at the annual Higher Education Government Relations Conference. Focus on how your institutions are performing.

This UNC Student Is a College Trustee at 23. Here’s What She Thinks of the Confederate Monument on Her Campus.

“You may be tempted to call me a coddled millennial,” said Mya Roberson in a message to the university’s trustees and chancellor. “But I am human. I am black. And I am fed up.”

Chapel Hill’s New Civil War

A monument to the Confederacy known as Silent Sam stands at the main entrance of the University of North Carolina. It’s ripping the campus apart. So what’s keeping it there?

Confronting History on Campus

Campuses are littered with buildings and monuments named for alumni, past presidents, and former professors. Problems arise when their fame is overtaken by changing mores. Here’s how some colleges are trying bridge that divide.

The Chronicle Review

Can Sexual Predators Be Good Scholars?

Making sense of the relationship between bad men and bad ideas.

Lingua Franca

Is a Lot of ‘Learnings’ a Dangerous Thing?

Despite that usage’s Shakespearean precedents, Ben Yagoda would probably use lessons. What would you do?