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November 23, 1966: First issue published.
September
1969: Weekly publication begins, except for the summer
months.
March
1970: First classified ads.
May
4, 1970: Lead story—the killing of four students
at Kent State.
September
1970: First display ads.
October
5, 1970: Published the full text of the Scranton
Commission Report (official title, The Report of the President’s
Commission on Campus Unrest).
February
22, 1971: First campus best-seller list. No. 1: Love
Story, by Erich Segal.
October
18, 1971: First opinion article, “The Debasement
of Liberal Education,” by Morris B. Abram.
November
27, 1978: First Chronicle of Higher Education
Inc. issue
February
1979: The Chronicle receives the George
Polk Award for education reporting.
September
4, 1985: First “back to school” issue.
June
11, 1986: Special report on South Africa.
September
1, 1988: First Almanac issue.
October
25, 1988: First issue of The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
April
1993: First appearance of The Chronicle of Higher
Education on the Internet, as a Gopher service.
July
1995: Academe Today, the Chronicle’s
daily service on the Internet, begins.
June
1998: The Chronicle of Higher Education
offers online-only subscriptions for subscribers outside the
U.S.
November
1999: Number of Chronicle subscribers registered
for online services surpasses 70,000. Print circulation: 95,547.
July
7, 2000: First appears in two sections, news in one
section and opinion articles and job ads in the other.
September
8, 2000: The Chronicle Review is reborn
as a third section of the paper.
March
8, 2001: The Chronicle offers online-only
subscriptions for U.S. subscribers.
August
2001: Job listings are posted daily instead of weekly
and augmented with articles about careers in academe.
October
2002: The Chronicle purchases the Arts
& Letters Daily web site.
January
2004: Site licenses offered to community colleges.
May
2005: Site licenses offered to all four-year institutions.
October
2005: The Chronicle of Higher Education
holds its inaugural Higher Education Leadership Forum.
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