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Campus Culture
Inside Startup U: How Stanford Develops Entrepreneurial Students
The university, entwined with Silicon Valley, develops innovative students with a synergy that has been summarized as “one plus one equals four.” -
The Review
Putting an End to ‘When Am I Going to Use This?’
The obvious answer is, We don’t know. And that raises a more interesting question: Shouldn’t we be more concerned with something’s value than its use? -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities, edited by Ashley Dawson and Bill V. Mullen (Haymarket Books; 258 pages; $19.95). Writings by scholars and others active in the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement. At This Time and in This Place: Vocation and Higher Education,… -
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News
Missing the Mark on Enrollment and Revenue: No Easy Fix
A third of the colleges that responded to an annual Chronicle survey didn’t meet their enrollment or revenue goals this year. For some, the time has come to make hard choices. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘Lives of Moral Leadership’
A book about school desegregation in Boston reminds a chancellor that moral leaders come from all ranks of society. -
News
A Winner of MacArthur Award Brought Liberal-Arts Education to Ghana
Patrick Awuah, after studying and working for Microsoft in the United States, founded a university in his native country. -
The Review
Electives Can Play a Crucial Role in Education, So Let’s Stop Neglecting Them
Taking courses outside the major and gen-ed requirements helps students sort potential passions from paths not worth pursuing. -
The Review
How to Fix Psychology’s Replication Crisis
Psychology needs more replication of experiments. Here’s a way to do that. -
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The Review
The End of Nature, Again
Jedediah Purdy envisions a new politics for a new environmental age. -
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The Review
Professorial Anger, Then and Now
A century ago, Thorstein Veblen raged against many ills that still plague academe. -
News
The Long, Strange Demise of North Dakota’s ‘Fighting Sioux’
The controversy surrounding the university’s Native American mascot has raged for decades. Now it’s coming to an end. Maybe. -
Faculty
Why Colleges Have a Hard Time Handling Professors Who Harass
Berkeley officials said they could not quickly dismiss the astronomer Geoffrey W. Marcy because the process would have been “lengthy and uncertain.” The case reflects the complex dynamics at play in such situations. -
Campus Speech
Women’s Groups Urge Colleges and Government to Rein In Yik Yak
A campaign launched by 72 groups argues that civil-rights laws oblige colleges to shield students from anonymous threats and abuse on social media. -
Academic Labor
What It Means When Harvard Tells Its Faculty How to Talk About Graduate-Student Unions
The elite university has issued 15 dos and don’ts to help professors discuss unionization efforts with students. -
Leadership
In Search for College Chiefs, Faculty Input Can Feel Like a Mere Formality
Professors say their views on candidates are given short shrift. But board members say they do plenty to solicit faculty input. -
Risk Managers
Many Colleges’ New Emergency Plan: Try to Account for Every Possibility
An “all hazards” approach has become the rule at most large institutions, but that requires intensive planning. Campus security officials hope a new program could help better prepare smaller colleges. -
Students
What’s the First Lady’s New Public-Awareness Campaign All About? And Could It Work?
Experts in advertising, social media, and behavioral economics provide perspective on the “Better Make Room” effort. -
For-Profit Higher Ed
U.S. Tightens Restrictions on ITT’s Access to Federal Student Aid
The Education Department imposed the new restrictions after finding that the company had failed to reconcile its student-aid accounts in a timely manner for several years. -
College Readiness
High-School Diploma Options Multiply, but May Not Set Up Students for College Success
As high-school graduation rates rise, a new report questions whether too many students are being given false assurances that they’re ready for college or the work force. -
Government
What Duncan Wishes He’d Done Differently — and What’s Next for the Education Dept.
The secretary of education says the department should have cracked down sooner on “bad actors” among for-profit colleges. -
Research
Researcher Says Legislator Misinterprets Study of Mass Shootings
Academic studies of gun violence may be ripe for misuse in the heated political debates that follow mass shootings. -
The Chronicle Review
An Economist Turns Sleuth
How a purported coup plot in Turkey transformed Harvard’s Dani Rodrik into a private investigator. -
Faculty
A Vague Job Posting, Made Infamous Online, Angers Faculty at Cornell U.
A group of department chairs complained to deans over the advertisement, which sought “a tenure-track assistant professor in some area of the humanities or qualitative social sciences.” -
Campus Safety
How Guns on Campus Became a Live Issue in Wisconsin
The state was among the last to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons. But now it’s one of many states having a robust debate about whether guns have a place in college buildings. -
The Review
Don’t Make Me Part of Your Gun Culture
A historian facing active-shooter defense training resents how the burden of violence is being placed on educators. -
The Review
Finding a Way Forward, Together
Students are scared of more shootings, an instructor writes. He’s not sure how to reassure them, but talking about it can only help. -
The Review
How Fear Might Affect Grades
An instructor wonders whether the likelihood of concealed guns in her classroom would make her go easy on certain students. -
First Person
A Geek’s Guide to Academic Committee Work
Mastering the dark art of curricular kung fu. -
Student Life
Thanks, Amazon. Campus Mailrooms Struggle to Keep Up With Boom in Packages for Students
The influx is fueled not by care packages from Mom, but by a surge in online shopping — for textbooks, Halloween costumes, Valentine sweets, dormitory décor, even mini-fridges. -
On Leadership
A Women’s College Goes Coed and Works to Preserve Its Mission
For the first time, Chatham University is enrolling men in its undergraduate programs. President Esther L. Barazzone talks about how the Pittsburgh institution is staying true to its values.