Filter & Sort
‘A Watershed Moment’ for Shared Governance
AAUP investigation finds eight institutions flouted academic governance norms during COVID-19, as did other institutions that were not subject to the inquiry. The group warns that institutions will continue to challenge these norms even as the pandemic ends.
Can Coaching Bring Students Back to HBCUs?
A new initiative aims to bring back 4,000 students who stopped out of private historically Black colleges and universities and guide them to graduation with one-on-one coaching. Public HBCUs are doing similar outreach to students, especially those who left during the pandemic.
Retirement Benefits Return
For the most part, institutions are resuming the faculty and staff retirement benefits they cut or stopped during the pandemic. Fights over the future of those benefits are being waged on some campuses.
A Tumultuous Year Closes With Celebration
Whether in person or virtual, colleges and universities try to make this year's commencements joyous.
Lifting Mask Mandates
As colleges consider how to incorporate new CDC guidance for vaccinated individuals into their planning, some lift mask mandates. Others say not so fast.
Crisis for India
Experts fear higher education could be damaged “beyond repair” by COVID-19 catastrophe.
Settling for More
A landmark settlement between Clemson University and men's track and field and cross-country athletes got the team reinstated. A separate agreement promises women athletes equitable financial aid and other benefits.
Opinion
Colleges Must Require the Study of Well-Being in High School
They should require students to take for-credit mental health courses in secondary school as a mandatory part of the admissions process, argues Sherrie Page.