December Collection: It's Time to Interview
How to prepare for first-round interviews and campus visits.
During an interview, the questions you ask may be as important as those you answer.
Whether it happens at an airport or via Skype, here’s what candidates need to know.
How to prepare an authentic response on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a job candidate for leadership positions.
Three things you shouldn’t say to a community-college hiring committee and four other remarks best avoided at any type of campus interview.
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
Employees dealing with life’s hardships find institutional support to be highly uneven. How to fix that.
I fought for her tenure. Then I started looking deeper.
What to expect, and what to do next.
Faculty members at the University of North Texas fear their teaching and research on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion will be curtailed by their own university’s interpretation of a state law — and, in one college, they say it already has.
Career Advancement and Preparation
Sandeep Mazumder, dean of the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University, has been named president of Berry College, in Georgia.
How to build authentic personal and professional friendships as you climb the administrative ranks.
Appointments, resignations, retirements, deaths
Ken Anselment on professional challenges, lessons in leadership, and why enrollment officials should pick up their megaphones.
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.
- Read the Employer FAQ: find the answers you need to ensure a smooth and successful job posting process.
- Explore our Media Kit: learn more about The Chronicle, our audience, and why you need your job openings posted among our content.