Don Troop
Articles Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Don Troop joined The Chronicle in 1998, and he has worked as a copy editor, reporter, and assigning editor over the years.
Stories by this Author
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Talking Back‘Zoom Fatigue,’ Gratitude, and Purring Cats: A Peek at Life During the Pandemic
Readers told us what they’re sick of, what they’ve missed, and what has forever changed, for better or worse. -
Live Coronavirus Updates
Kansas Lawmakers Move to Make Colleges Give Partial Refunds for Online Learning
A panel of the Kansas House of Representatives has advanced a measure that would require public colleges to give a 50-percent tuition refund to students forced to take classes remotely instead of in person due to the pandemic, The Kansas City Star reports. The lawmakers amended the higher-education… -
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Pandemic Brought Unprecedented Threats to Campus Speech
The past year has been a busy one for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, which advocates for free-speech and due-process rights on campuses. Colleges’ responses to Covid-19 too often put them at odds with those principles, and the group says 2020 brought an unprecedented… -
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Power Failure Sends 800 Vaccine Doses to Rice U.
Rolling blackouts across Texas over the holiday weekend shut down freezers at Harris County Public Health’s storage facility in Houston, putting thousands of doses of Covid-19 vaccine at risk of spoilage. The Moderna vaccine must be kept between minus 13 and plus 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Officials… -
Navigating the Pandemic
Swift Vaccinations, a ‘Normal’ Spring, and Other Wishful Thinking
The leaders of the data team behind our college-reopening tracker assess the semester ahead. -
Faculty Life
Sheltering in ‘a Stress Bubble’
Alone or near their loved ones, academics across the globe reflect on life in a time of death. -
Personal Finance
Unraveling the Complexity of America’s Student-Loan Debt
College debt in the United States doubled, to $1.5 trillion, in the decade following the Great Recession. Whether that’s a problem depends on your perspective. -
Campus Safety
College-Crime Reports Are Breaking Records This Year. Blame Years-Ago Abuses by Campus Doctors.
Three universities bear the bureaucratic brunt of the Clery Act’s stipulation that campus crimes be counted in the year they were reported, not when they are alleged to have occurred. -
News
The ‘Mind-Set List,’ a Whimsical Reminder of Generational Change on Campuses, Gets a New Home
The team behind higher-ed’s annual reminder on generational perspective begins a collaboration with Marist College, with suggestions of an eventual handoff. -
News
The 2018 Chronicle News Quiz
The year is nearly over. How closely have you been paying attention?
