Leadership

U. of Maryland President Steps Down After Damning Football Report

After several days of deliberation by the university system’s regents, Wallace D. Loh, the flagship’s chancellor, announced plans to resign in June 2019. Both the athletic director and the football coach will stay in their jobs.

Admissions

Dueling Economists: Rival Analyses of Harvard’s Admissions Process Emerge at Trial

In the legal battle over the university’s treatment of Asian-American applicants, one researcher calls another’s methods “completely nonsensical.”

The Chronicle Interview

Private Companies Are Destabilizing Academic Research. How Will Scholars Respond?

Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council, discusses negotiating access to Facebook and building a new scholarly infrastructure for the big-data era.

Re:Learning

Is Teaching Quality the Next Front for Education Investors?

Companies hope to play a key role in the evolution of the student-success movement.

The Chronicle Review

The Godfather of Gay Studies

Nearing his 90s, Martin Duberman argues that the movement for equality has faltered.

Special Reports

Send Us Your Ideas for the 2019 Trends Report

What key shifts in higher education do you think will emerge next year? What issues should college leaders be getting ready to grapple with? Send us your suggestions for our fifth annual Trends Report.

Idea Lab: Faculty Diversity

Colleges face growing demands to hire more minority faculty members. But doing so requires revamping how search committees usually operate, confronting unconscious bias, and improving the Ph.D. pipeline. This collection examines how colleges are changing to bolster their faculty ranks with more people from underrepresented minority groups. Get your copy in the Chronicle store.

Commentary

Faith Is the Diversity Issue Ignored by Colleges. Here’s Why That Needs to Change.

Failing to educate the next generation of citizens on the role of religion in our democracy is like failing to teach doctors how the circulatory system works.

Special Reports

Teaching With an Index Card: the Benefits of Free, Open-Source Tools

If colleges want to make good on their promises to prepare students for the world beyond the classroom, they should use methods that teach digital skills safely and ethically.

Lingua Franca

Nixon, the Racial Slur, and Me

Ben Yagoda recalls his reaction to a joke he heard in college, and is ashamed.