Various cover designs, and alternative cover designs, for the Chronicle of Higher Education:

C.S. Lewis, the mysterious departmental-funding machine, fraternities under scrutiny, and a proposed redesign.
The cover image for "Holy War in the Shadowlands," a story on the bitter battle being waged for the literary remains
of theologian and fiction writer C.S. Lewis (b&w photo in center). Composed entirely in Photoshop.
The image below was for a story in how many universities are pumping certain programs full of money, and letting others wither on the vine, based on the administrators' hopes of a return on their investment. The idea was to portray the process as a sort of mysterious and impersonal machine, as the administrators in many cases had not been forthcoming on the decision-making process. The image was a little too "out there" for the rather staid Chronicle, and it ended up not being used, but I had a great time making it, and hey, web space is cheap, so why not?
The cover image for a story on increased scrutiny of college fraternities in the wake of several incidents of racially-biased hazing at
prominent universities. The original image was a much smaller house, in the daytime--needless to say, some elaborate Photoshoppery went on here.
In early 2001, a call for redesigns went out to the Chronicle's art department. This was a re-imagining of a cover we had run
on the so-called theory of Intelligent Design (an utterly bogus recasting of "Creation Science" designed to not seem as anti-scientific, but I digress), with more variation in font sizes and colors then had been allowed in the past, as well as the lead sentence running on the first page to entice the reader in. The final redesign of the cover that was accepted I consider to be a net loss, but we did have fun working on this ultimately fruitless project. The image of the hand of God initiating the evolutionary process DID run, however. It was assembled in Photoshop from Michelangelo's Creation in the Sistine Chapel, and the hackneyed "Ascent of Man" image we have seen everywhere.