March Collection: Managing the Offer Stage
How to respond to a tenure-track offer and prepare for your first faculty position.
What to consider when you’re negotiating an administrative compensation package at a typical (nonelite) institution.
What to consider before you accept (or reject) a surprise appointment to become an administrator.
Whether or not you have the leverage of a second job offer, ask your potential department for what you deserve (within reason).
Having multiple suitors is an enviable position but one that carries its own kinds of confusion, pitfalls, and anxiety.
Featured Employers
Professional Development Workshops
UPCOMING: March 2025. The Chronicle, in partnership with Dever Justice LLC, is providing 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 administrative positions.
UPCOMING: April 2025. 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.
UPCOMING: May 2025. Higher education is going through seismic change, and leaders are faced with new internal and external challenges every day. This virtual workshop series will provide administrative leaders with the skills to effectively enhance institutional success and navigate shared governance by learning how to make tough decisions, lead with resiliency, and build high-performing teams.
UPCOMING: June 2025. Join us 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.
UPCOMING: August 2025. Navigating today’s complex higher-ed landscape isn’t simply about learning new concepts. The Chronicle, in partnership with Strategic Imagination, is providing a professional-development program in which a virtual community will accompany you throughout the fall semester. The program contains brief lessons and exercises that can be integrated into your busy schedule and applied to your current challenges.
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
ON DEMAND | In a tough job market for recent graduates, colleges must better integrate career support into their programs. Join us for an expert panel on what they’re doing. With Support From the University of Florida. Watch on demand
ON DEMAND: Research shows many learning models are outdated, but Southern Cross University’s model has succeeded. Join us for more from SCU’s vice chancellors. With Support From Southern Cross University. Watch on demand.
ON DEMAND: A recent Chronicle survey found differing views of burnout between faculty members and administrators. See how colleges can help prevent it. With Support From NCFDD. Watch On Demand.
ON DEMAND: What if colleges offered internship opportunities to every student who wanted one? Join us to discuss the future of college internships. With Support From Strada. Watch on demand.
Career Advancement and Preparation
How colleges can better connect students to what they need to help them start their working lives.
Recent developments show the online for-profit is keeping its options open.
West Virginia University’s next president comes from Coastal Carolina University.
Watch On Demand: March 6, 2024 | 2 p.m. ET. At a time of rising tuition and fast-changing, uncertain career paths, does college still play a role? Watch On Demand a Virtual Forum on how to prepare students for the work force. With Support From Florida Atlantic University. Watch On Demand.
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
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