Over the past few years it has included articles on trend-setting institutions and individuals, the latest thinking on teaching and learning, technology, the curriculum, the financing and management of higher education, for-profit and entrepreneurial higher education, faculty, the changing needs and nature of students, the undergraduate experience, administrative practice and governance, public policy, accountability, and the social role of higher education. We encourage you to submit articles—whether brief expressions of a point of view (750 to 1,500 words) or more extended articles of from 2,500 to 5,000 words—on one of those topics or on others of current importance to higher education.

AUDIENCE
Change, which is published six times a year, is intended for individuals responsible for higher learning in college, university, and other settings, including faculty, administrators, trustees, state and federal officials, and students, as well as corporation, union, and foundation officers.

MANUSCRIPTS
Owned by Heldref Publications, a division of the nonprofit Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation in Washington, D.C., Change is one of the 48 journals and magazines published by Heldref. The magazine staff at Heldref includes a full-time managing editor, Cheryl Fields, and an assistant editor, Rachel Adams. It is to Heldref that you direct all questions about advertising and subscriptions. (See below for relevant contact information.) Manuscripts, letters to the editor, and queries about guidelines for writers should be submitted directly to the Change executive editor, Peg Miller, at change@carnegiefoundation.org

Because Change is a magazine rather than a journal, footnotes should not be included. References can be worked into the text or given parenthetically when necessary. A short list of "Related Readings" or "Resources" can be provided with the article where appropriate, and URLs can be provided for Web sites containing more extensive documentation.

A separate title page should provide short biographical information (up to four or five lines) and contact information, including the complete address, telephone, fax number, and e-mail of the author(s). The first-named author of a multi-authored article will receive the notification of acceptance, rejection, or need for revision.

REVIEW PROCESS
When we receive your manuscript, we will send you a postcard verifying that your article has entered the peer review process. By agreement with Heldref, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is responsible for all editorial judgments about the magazine: its themes, articles, and editorial voice and exercises that judgment through its executive editor, Margaret Miller. She reads all manuscripts to determine their suitability for Change. If the fit is not good, you will hear within six weeks. Those that are promising she sends to two consulting editors for peer review. Those that are returned with positive reviews she (or the guest editor) considers for publication.  This process takes from two to three months to complete. (Should the manuscript be held for longer than usual, you will be notified and offered the option of withdrawing the manuscript from consideration.) If the article is accepted, you will be contacted to discuss editing procedures and the production schedule for the issue of the magazine in which your article will appear. Each author receives six complimentary copies of the issue in which the article is included. Authors may also order additional copies or reprints (minimum order of 100) at their expense.

Manuscripts should be submitted exclusively to this publication.

CONTRIBUTING TO CHANGE
Even the best manuscripts compete for limited space: We publish just six times a year, and given that many of the articles are solicited, we can use but 20 or so of the hundreds of manuscripts submitted each year. What accounts for acceptance or rejection? Topics that have been exhausted (the culture wars) or that are too broad (the history of universities in 2,000 words or less) or too specific for our broad audience (preventing dormitory theft) will not be published, nor will those written in the style of a journal—heavy on jargon and footnotes, light on analysis and point of view.

This last criterion is important. Change is a magazine, and the magazine article is a genre unto itself. A good article compels attention to an important matter. It shows a mind at work, one that reaches judgment and takes a stance. It is credible: it knows its subject and the context. And it is concrete: it names people, places, dates, and events. For a good idea of the kind of writing that works for Change, we encourage you to read a few past issues.

Change doesn't start with an ideological predisposition; we court good ideas from all sides. But tracts, broadsides, and grand plans seldom impress reviewers (or readers), who prefer real, usable ideas that someone has actually tried out and evaluated.

Beyond writing for Change, please write to the magazine either letters or e-mails to ch@heldref.org. Feedback is not plentiful in the magazine business, and any reader comment gets full attention. Your reactions to Change make it better and more valuable for all of us.

—Margaret Miller

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