IIndiana University of Pennsylvania was already shrinking. When the regional demographics subsided and competition for the remaining students increased between 2011 and 2020, the public college lost a third of its enrollment. The executives had no choice but to cut and shed around 150 faculty…
W.When some PhD programs announced last spring that they wouldn't be accepting an incoming class in the fall of 2021, the idea felt drastic. For some, it felt desperate. During the summer and autumn, however, more departments announced that they would also close their application…
T.The statements of the college presidents came in thunderstorms, bullets and promises. Most were issued by the Minneapolis Police Department last summer following the death of George Floyd. There were announcements of new committees, initiatives and task forces. There was talk of transformation, roadmaps and…
T.Twenty-five years of silence broke out with a roar. It exploded with the words Lisa Schubert wrote in an email to Washington University Title IX coordinator Valery Richardson, revealing why she was forced to abandon her near-completed dissertation in English in the mid-1990s. "Dear Mrs.…
Duke University was one of the coronavirus success stories in college this fall. Less than 1 percent of students tested positive during the semester, and just before Thanksgiving, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released one report about how the university minimized the spread,…
Ken Bennett / © 2021 WFU / Ken BennettSusan R. Wente BOARD OF DIRECTORSEventsFernando Delgado, The University of Minnesota, Duluth, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs has been appointed President of Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York. He will succeed José Luis Cruz,…
Three struggling Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education locations plan to pursue an increasingly popular strategy in higher education: building a new "virtual campus" to train working adults who have a college degree but no degree. In one [n interview with the Pittsburgh Post-GazetteDale-Elizabeth Pehrsson,…
At the beginning of the spring semester, Covid-19 increases sharply. The Chronicle follows developments in higher areas here. Read on for daily live updates and information. 11:27 a.m. East, January 31, 2021 According to U. of Michigan, Michigan State U. encourages students to stay home…
Private, non-profit universities with a larger proportion of international students shifted their plans to reopen in the fall to offer personal tuition, according to a New Working paper based on data collected by the College Crisis Initiative at Davidson College. While previous research has examined…
Colleges and universities ended 2020 with persistent job losses, down 13 percent since last February. It was a disheartening coda for a really brutal year for the higher education workforce. Since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that…
