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From the Archives
The Subtle Art of Gaining Faculty Buy-In
For administrators seeking faculty support for a major change, there are no simple tricks; rather, it takes long-term relationship building and canny strategy, say veterans of the process. -
News
Where the Journey to College Is No Fairy Tale
For promising students at one low-income high school, the road to college is marked by hope, frustration, and limited choices. -
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‘What Are the Pathways?’ Listening to Black Men on Campus
A sociologist at the University of Louisville describes what colleges need to do to graduate more black males. -
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Presidents Share What’s Worked
College leaders talk about how they have succeeded in bringing faculty on board for new projects — and how they have failed. -
News
How Millennials Support Feminism on Campus
Activists’ work to uphold women’s rights permeates college life and blends with other social-progress advocacy, an author finds. -
News
4 Ways Professors Respond to Change
Chris McGoff, one of the founders of the Clearing, a management-consultant company, says his decades of experience have taught him that the various ways in which people approach a new idea — or resist it — are consistent across all types of organizations, including academe. -
News
How to Meet Faculty Members Halfway
An administrator with experience in starting up student-success programs shares her tips. -
News
Fellowships (6/23/2017)
Forty-five academics and an independent scholar were chosen as 2017-18 fellows at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. -
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Selected New Books on Higher Education
Topics include the admissions struggles of an urban university in a high-rise and advice on the process of doing academic writing. -
News
‘King Lear’
One of the best lessons on leadership, says a college president, is found in King Lear. -
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The Review
To My Student, on the Death of Her Grandmother(s)
How tragic that she died inconveniently right in the middle of Finals Week. -
The Review
How to Avoid a Post-Scholar America
Academics can recapture the trust of the public — but only if they are willing to write for it. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education (June 2017)
The largest gift on the list was for unrestricted use, but the others were devoted to specific purposes, like the teaching of entrepreneurship. -
News
What DeVos’s ‘Reset’ on 2 Major Consumer Rules Means for Colleges
The Education Department says it will renegotiate both the gainful-employment rule and the borrower “defense to repayment” rule. It’s a victory for for-profit colleges, but the rules have other critics, too. -
News
Harvard’s Departing Leader Pushed the University to Grapple With Its Past
Drew Gilpin Faust, the university’s first female president, challenged Harvard to confront its elitist traditions and a dark chapter of its history. -
News
Colorado Case Puts Focus on Colleges’ Handling of Alleged Domestic Violence
Questions reverberate for other universities after the chancellor, athletics director, and head football coach at Boulder were punished for failing to take their reporting responsibilities far enough. -
News
Scholars See Bad Omens in Pulled Sponsorship of ‘Julius Caesar’
The corporate response to a production of the play in which the assassinated ruler resembles President Trump has scholars thinking that studying the arts is more important than ever. -
The Review
Who Wins When a College Presidency Fails?
Search firms do, if it means more business for them. And the presidents themselves can, via lucrative termination clauses in their contracts. But colleges have much to lose. -
Faculty
How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News
For months Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying had worried that Evergreen State College was spiraling out of control. When Tucker Carlson’s producer came calling, they were “horrified” by the decision they faced. -
The Review
The New Censorship on Campus
When student protesters seek to silence voices they disagree with, everyone’s freedom of speech is at stake — including their own. -
The Review
Better College, Better Scholars, Right? Not So Much
Which profs end up where is pretty damn arbitrary. -
The Review
Why Walking Out Is Better Than Shouting Down
The Notre Dame commencement protest against Vice President Mike Pence was a model of campus resistance. -
The Chronicle Review
Buried History
How far should universities go to acknowledge their complicity with slavery? -
The Review
Policing the Imagination
Condemning “cultural appropriation” in all forms has dangerous consequences. -
Advice
Administration 101: Part 5, Getting Your Name in the Real Pool
What has to happen before you are invited to a first-round interview for an academic-leadership position.