Kevin R. McClure is an associate professor of higher education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and co-director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges. He writes the Working Better column for The Chronicle on workplace reform in academe. His new book, The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace after the Great Resignation, is forthcoming from the Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Advice: Working Better
How to fix higher ed’s broken system of employee recognition.
Advice: Working Better
Employees dealing with life’s hardships find institutional support to be highly uneven. How to fix that.
Advice: Working Better
Our new columnist on reviving a stalled reform movement.
Advice
Some of the most vulnerable employees at institutions are being hung out to dry.
The Review | Essay
Higher education has a compensation problem.
The Review | Opinion
Amid state-budget cuts and political attacks, some institutions are neglecting their workers.
The Review | Essay
Colleges have done a spectacularly bad job of managing talent.
The Review | Essay
It hasn’t just been a tough two years. It’s been a tough two decades.
The Review | Opinion
Faculty members aren’t leaving in droves, but they are increasingly pulling away.
The Review
Higher ed used to be insulated from the whims of the labor market. No more.