We asked readers about higher education's compensation practices. Here's what they told us. chroni.cl/3vPHSSo

Grades are many things: A measure of learning. A way for students to see themselves. Gatekeepers that sort students in colleges and jobs. But what do they mean — and how should they be applied?

Read what a collection of stakeholders said an A means: chroni.cl/3xzLoks

Opinion: Higher-education workers are exasperated by the archaic processes that determined their paychecks, writes Kevin R. McClure. chroni.cl/49tTmc8

Since the key to enrolling more low-income students often is having the money to support them, Goldie Blumenstyk wonders in The Edge why the American Talent Initiative hasn’t focused more on helping colleges raise philanthropic dollars for this purpose. chroni.cl/3Jhv4aE

Harvard says it’ll require SAT/ACT scores again, citing similar arguments as other highly selective colleges that have done the same in recent months. chroni.cl/3vRBCd2

Goddard College tried everything to stay afloat: It went fully virtual. Rented out campus buildings. Made its dining hall into a restaurant. None of it worked.

Goddard’s closure exhibits small colleges’ struggles to reckon with financial strain. chroni.cl/43YckGt

China could become the new king of global university rankings. Its institutions won’t have to do anything differently to move ahead. chroni.cl/3xAcpEn

How much has pay changed since 2012 for professors? Associate professors? Instructors? Lecturers? We have the data.

Here are the average salaries for the faculty at 3,500 colleges from 2012 to 2021, sorted by state, institution, and job title. chroni.cl/4cUAN3w

Government agencies are withholding grants to the University of California at San Diego because one retired scientist didn’t turn in reports. The Chronicle estimates the university has about $700 million in affected grants. chroni.cl/3vUOiQ8

Opinion: Stagnant pay, opaque raise processes, worries about the future. Readers told us about their experiences with higher ed's compensation practices. chroni.cl/43WEuBH

Have diversity statements been banned at your college/university? We talked to experts about alternative approaches. chroni.cl/3xtUaAz

Opinion: Glenn C. Loury begins his new memoir with a promise: “I am going to tell you things about myself that no one would want anybody to think was true of them.”

Is the public intellectual's candid memoir an act of self-reckoning or self-sabotage? chroni.cl/4atzaZg

ICYMI: Stanford’s Faculty Senate will weigh dueling motions this week about whether to rescind its 2020 censure of Scott Atlas, a Hoover Institution fellow who advised President Trump about Covid. chroni.cl/43VEB0n

Opinion: There's less distance between some activist instructors and McKinsey consultants than might first appear. chroni.cl/3PUzx6U

Featured Job #Ad : Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the UVA in Virginia.

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Opinion: Counterproductive, dogmatic, and politically biased — what's wrong with DEI statements. chroni.cl/3vKZz5I

Meet Viviana Mitre, a first-generation student, who has crossed the U.S.-Mexico border every day for the past 10 years to pursue an education — and fulfill both her and her family's dreams. chroni.cl/4d13r3k

California is considering tough new rules that would require colleges to contact job applicants’ current or past employers to ask about policy violations. Will predators stay away from the Golden State's colleges? chroni.cl/49tDFBI

SCOOP: In 2020, Stanford’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution condemning Scott Atlas’s COVID views. This week, it will consider rescinding it.

A group of faculty is arguing the way it was passed set a “dangerous precedent” for free speech at Stanford.
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In 2022, institutions distributed $7.9 billion in emergency funds as direct grants to students or credits to their outstanding account balances.

We looked at a subset of 2,800 institutions to see the demographics of students who had received the money. chroni.cl/49rtuNZ