| Technology |
| Colleges Are Banding Together Digitally to Help Students Succeed. Here’s How. |
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| David Massey for The Chronicle |
| By Alexander C. Kafka |
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| The institutions are upgrading learning platforms, bargaining with vendors, trading course offerings, and collecting and analyzing vast data that could change how they teach. PREMIUM |
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| Affirmative Action |
| After an Education Dept. Investigation, a Medical School Will Stop Considering Race in Admissions |
| By Nell Gluckman |
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| Texas Tech University’s Health Science Center doesn’t think its admissions policy broke the law. But it wanted to resolve a case opened more than a decade ago. |
| Compensation |
| Faculty Pay Increased 2 Percent Last Year, AAUP Says |
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| Zuma Press, Newscom |
| By Audrey Williams June |
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| In its annual faculty-compensation report, the American Association of University Professors found, among other things, that inflation eroded nearly all the gains in pay. |
| Data |
| Explore and Compare Higher-Ed Salaries |
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| Updated with the latest figures on full-time faculty members, adjunct professors, and staff, The Chronicle’s comprehensive data resource makes it easy to dig into pay at more than 4,700 colleges. Submit your data to help show what people in your department earn. |
| Government |
| In Many States, Higher Education Has Been Left Behind Since the Recession |
| By Eric Kelderman |
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| Nationally, state appropriations per student remained essentially flat from the 2017 to 2018 fiscal years, said the “State Higher Education Finance” report. |
| Finance |
| Revenue From Online Ed Is On the Rise. So Is the Competition, Moody’s Says. |
| By Terry Nguyen |
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| A report on online education anticipates growing competition among institutions and also among third-party course providers. |
| Students |
| How America’s College-Closure Crisis Leaves Families Devastated |
| By Michael Vasquez and Dan Bauman |
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| More than 500,000 students have been displaced in the past five years, many of them working adults who had hoped that college would be their path to the middle class. |
