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
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.
The Review
They’ve been treated shamefully, but they’re more resilient than people give them credit for.
The Review
It shouldn’t take a surprise basketball win to bring attention to public regional universities.