Most colleges that temporarily suspended their ACT and SAT requirements during the pandemic have no plans to reinstate them. However, a mass movement to introduce test-blind guidelines, in which universities remove all applicants' ratings from the ratings, is unlikely in the near future. These are…
Darrell Allison BOARD OF DIRECTORSEventsDarrell Allison, The American Federation for Children’s vice president of government affairs and state teams has been named chancellor of Fayetteville State University. He will replace Peggy Valentine, who has served as Interim Chancellor since July 2019.José Luis Cruz, Executive Vice…
During his first semester as a consultant at George Washington University, Drew Amstutz comforted overseas students struggling with culture shock, reassured freshmen who panicked about bad grades, wrote down some students about underage drinking, and found a referral for another, who believed it was her…
Faculty members are scared and burned out. They juggle work and disrupt personal life amid a pandemic and need help to stay in academia – and thrive. The Chronicle recently published a special report, Burned out and overloaded, that examines how universities can provide support.…
In a single paragraph, the governor of New Hampshire announced his intention to combine the state's 13 four- and two-year public colleges into a single system. Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, took the proposal into that Summary of its budget for fiscal years 2022-23, released…
Low-ranking instructors bear a disproportionate share of the risk of Covid-19 exposure during class at Auburn University, where only about half of the classrooms have the ability to achieve physical distancing as per public health guidelines. This was the result of a preliminary study. The…
One way to measure the gender gap in higher education is to look at the higher education leadership teams and ask some specific questions: Are there women in the ranks? And how many of them are not white? ON Report published on Wednesday by the…
Öne application. Countless questions. Countless hours of fear. The most burdensome form of approvals drills into the bones of your existence. Every year it creates confusion and multiplies the misery among those who seek financial support from many of the richest universities in the country.…
No Zoom class can replicate the experience of studying forestry or salmon habitats on 1,000 acres of forest along Puget Sound. That's at least in part why Evergreen State College, a campus in Olympia, Washington known for environmental studies, has joined the growing number of…
When a state legislature asked the Georgia university system how it taught "oppression" and "privilege" it sparked searches of course catalogs and curricula, conversations with deans, chairs, and faculty – and a 102 pages Answer. In January Georgia Rep. Emory Dunahoo, Republican of Gillsville, asked…
