January Collection: Mastering the Campus Interview
How to prepare for first-round interviews and campus visits.
Six reasons why an online format is better for faculty job finalists than the traditional in-person interview.
Being in performance mode is required as much for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as for any other part of a finalist visit.
What to expect if you’re a doctoral student or Ph.D. applying for openings outside of academe.
You’ve already interviewed with the whole search committee in Round 1. Why do you have to repeat that exercise in Round 2?
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Professional Development Workshops
Join us on January 21-31, 2025, for a professional-development program to help new and experienced department chairs overcome the challenges of the role and create a strategic vision for personal and departmental growth.
The Chronicle is partnering with Strategic Imagination to provide you with a professional development program which recognizes that navigating today’s complex higher-ed landscape isn’t simply about learning new concepts. We’re creating a new kind of virtual community that will walk alongside you through the fall semester, with brief lessons and exercises designed to be integrated into your busy schedules and applied to your current challenges.
The Chronicle is partnering with the experienced faculty members and administrators at Dever Justice LLC on a fast-paced course for academic professionals looking to advance their skills in preparation for administrative roles. This four-hour workshop will provide key insights for new and aspiring academic administrators on the inner workings of taking on an administrative position—from application all the way through the transition.
The Chronicle has partnered with Strategic Imagination to create a groundbreaking virtual leadership series that will provide critical context, creative strategies, and guided exercises for women in leadership roles across academe. Our program tracks are designed to target the areas most important to women at different leadership levels, culminating in a Summit to bridge the gaps between those levels for a more comprehensive view on systemic pressure women face in higher ed.
Featured Resources
The end of the graduate-school gauntlet is in sight. You’ve completed your coursework, passed your comprehensive exams, gotten your dissertation proposal approved, and already written several chapters. But now comes one more hurdle, which might feel more daunting than all the others: the academic job market.
In this new series, Kevin R. McClure explores higher education as a workplace — what it does well, what it does poorly, and what it can do to improve the professional lives of faculty and staff members.
The average salary of an instructional faculty member is $92,823. But how far that salary goes can vary depending on where you teach and where you live. The Chronicle looked at how the salaries of instructional faculty stack up, and how the cost of living affects spending power.
The Workplace
Our hiring practices represent a tremendous failure of imagination.
Help your department’s grad students take back control from a system that often seems designed to make them feel powerless.
More than a third of faculty members feel like they have less of it than they did several years ago, according to two associations.
UPCOMING: January 27, 2025 | 2 p.m. E.T. Higher education exists, in part, to provide the knowledge required to thrive in a modern world. The Chronicle will sit with college leaders to discuss how campuses can offer short-term upskilling courses to better serve an evolving student population.With Support From the University of South Florida. Register here.
Career Advancement and Preparation
When large amounts of money are involved, the classroom gets complicated.
Dillard University, Nova Southeastern University, and Southern Methodist University have named new presidents.
Performed often enough, a routine can prepare your distractible brain to ease into the hard work of focusing on a manuscript.
Matt Parlow, executive vice president and chief advancement officer at Chapman University, has been named president of the university.
Salary & Demographic Data
See the latest federal data on compensation for all ranks of the profession at thousands of American colleges.
Our analysis offers a sector-by-sector look at changes in average annual pay for workers in noninstructional jobs from 2012-13 to 2022-23.
Here’s how wages have changed over the past five years for those who work in sectors such as business and financial operations, management, and education services.
Explore this searchable, sortable table showing the race, ethnicity, and gender of full-time faculty members at 3,300 colleges and universities since 2018.
Statistics on the gender, race, and ethnicity of such staff members, including office and administrative support, business and financial operations, maintenance, and more, in 2018 and 2022.
We’ve just updated our statistical snapshots of minority employees in higher education, reflecting figures from 2018 to 2022.
Hiring Resources
Other Recruitment Essentials
- Place a Job Ad in Print: publish your open position in an upcoming print issue of The Chronicle.
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