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The Review
Succession Planning: Colleges Should Practice What They Teach
Most institutions fail to build pipelines that allow midlevel administrators to broaden their experience and ascend to executive positions. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (9/8/2017)
Rebecca Wyke is the new president of the University of Maine at Augusta, and Nancy Berner is the new provost of the University of the South. -
The Review
Existential Angst in an Unmapped Political Landscape
A naturalized American wonders: Will perceptions of his “otherness” distort how his teaching on controversial topics is received? -
The Review
The Long Summer of Love
Hippies had a profound and lasting impact. Too bad they didn’t keep better notes. -
The Review
Where the Humanities Need No Defense
There’s a magical place called England where people don’t scoff at books. -
The Review
Don’t Bow to Blowhards
Colleges aren’t obliged, in the name of free speech, to host every maniac with a Twitter following. -
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Chronicle List
4-Year Private Nonprofit Colleges That Pay Associate Professors the Most, 2015-16
Among the 10 doctoral institutions with the highest average salaries for associate professors, Harvard University was the only one where women earned more than men did. In the same group, the University of Pennsylvania had the largest pay gap between women and men. At master’s and baccalaureate… -
The Review
How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt
We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened. -
The Review
Fraternities Can Change on Their Own
For more than a decade, the men’s Greek organizations at the University of Colorado at Boulder have been looking out for the safety of students without the oversight of university leaders. -
News
Colleges Confront the Perils of Frats
Alcohol, hazing, and secrecy are a dangerous combination. How are colleges trying to limit the risks? -
News
How One University Is Challenging an Ugly ‘Tradition’ Among Students
Five years after a student’s death, Cornell University has found that rules may help combat hazing, but changing mind-sets is the key. -
News
Who Helps and Hurts in Fighting Unruly Frats
As colleges try to rein in hazing and other misconduct, they will find some natural partners both on campus and off. Other groups may not always be so helpful. -
News
After Charlottesville, What Will the College Republicans Stand For?
Members of the student organization, long a minority group in higher education, may continue to serve as gleeful instigators on campuses. And if they don’t, someone else might take up the mantle. -
The Review
Statues or It Didn’t Happen
Thanks to them, we can confidently say that the two overarching themes of history are people standing in place and people riding on horses. -
News
For-Profit Colleges Find Few Reasons to Lobby a Friendlier Education Dept.
Proprietary colleges have scaled back their lobbying efforts in part because of a lack of staff at the department and a limited policy agenda in Congress. -
Administration
Why Did UVa Allow Banned Torches During White-Supremacist Rally?
The university has a rule against open flames on campus. A Virginia law forbids using fire to intimidate. Neither was enforced. -
Students
To Help Students Heal After Hate, Meet Them Where They Are
As classes begin, counseling centers are preparing for an influx of students who may have experienced trauma stemming from the deadly violence in Charlottesville. -
Administration
Details on Berkeley Free-Speech Event Are Hazy, but Campus Readies for Another Fight
Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, and Stephen Bannon have been invited, but just who is coming is unclear. -
Research
The Antifa Academic
A Dartmouth lecturer who wrote a book on the anti-fascist movement discusses his research and the people at the center of it. -
The Chronicle Interview
‘A Monument to the Best’
Before Daniel Weiss ran the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he was a college president. What does he know now that he wished he knew then? -
The Chronicle Review
How Colleges Are Strangling Liberalism
An obsession with identity has made students less likely to engage with a world beyond themselves. -
Career Confidential
Administration 101: Why You Should Be a Finalist
Here are some of the reasons why you might want to accept that campus interview.