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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)ON SEPTEMBER 9,1999, David Letterman entertained millions of television viewers by rifling on a scientific breakthrough that had made an obscure Princeton assistant professor famous overnight. The late-night host's...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)Sarah Bolton, president of the College of Wooster, has been named president of Whitman College. She will succeed Kathleen Murray, who will retire in July. M. Elizabeth Magill, executive vice president and provost of...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)NEW DATA from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center provides a somber final tally of total college enrollment in the fall of 2021: It dropped 2.7 percent from a year earlier, a decline of 476,100 students....
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)"THERE'S A MOM on the phone for you" is not a sentence most college administrators or professors are usually eager to hear. We get immediate visions of "helicopter" or "lawnmower" parents swooping in to "fix" their...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)ON THE HEELS of firing its president last month, the University of Michigan announced a $490-million settlement with more than a thousand people who said they had experienced sexual abuse by Robert E. Anderson, a...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)ON TUESDAYS, Thursdays, and Fridays, at around 7:30 a.m., I leave my two-bedroom apartment in Venice, Calif., wearing a sweatsuit, a beanie, and Blundstones. Upon entering my car, I loop the most important item of the...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)IN THE END, Edward J. Blum got what he wanted--another chance to take down race-conscious admissions programs. Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions, known as...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)AS MANY OBSERVERS have pointed out, the "Great Resignation" doesn't perfectly capture what's happening in the U.S. labor market. Data suggest many people, especially those with jobs in fields like hospitality, aren't...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)SOMETHING UNUSUAL HAPPENED in Virginia last month. The new attorney general, Jason S. Miyares, fired the general counsels for the University of Virginia and George Mason University. Given that Miyares is a Republican,...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT is no easy business. Consider this comment I heard recently from someone with decades in the profession: "At the last national conference I attended, I was sitting around with a group of senior...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)IT is A PARADOXICAL TIME in the arc of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the one hand, record numbers of people, including on college campuses, are still being infected. Hospitals are once again overwhelmed. Death counts, too,...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)A COUPLE OF WEEKS after a mob of Donald J. Trump's supporters stormed the nation's Capitol, Cathy Cox, then dean of Mercer University's law school, convened a group of students on a Zoom call for what she described as a...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 68, Issue 11)LESS THAN FIVE YEARS AGO, Elizabeth City State University was underwater. The chancellor's office had leaks in the roof--the result of years of deferred maintenance and hurricane damage. Trash cans caught the dripping...