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The Review
The Undocumented Alphabet
A selection from Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes From a Pre-American Life. -
From the Archives
Rethinking the Presidential Search
Why some colleges skip hiring consultants and a national search to focus on internal candidates. -
News
The Mismatch Between High Tech and Higher Ed
In Silicon Valley, where cutting-edge skills may matter more than particular degrees, colleges are struggling to adapt. -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
Topics include affordable course materials and techniques for more dynamic lecturing. -
News
Resources for Finding Your Next Leader
Improving how colleges find new presidents is a perennial concern. Here are the key points from some articles and reports on the topic. -
The Review
The Power of Dialogue
A project that brings together students from a military academy and a liberal-arts college is a step toward building a strong democracy. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (9/29/2017)
Peggy F. Bradford is the new president of Shawnee Community College, and Jamel Santa Cruze Wright, interim president of Eureka College, has been named permanently to the post. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘Shared Leadership in Higher Education’
Meaningful collaboration is hard to achieve, a dean observes, but it can be an effective route to change. -
News
Chemist Turned Politician Sees Thousands of Other Scientist-Lawmakers as the Solution
Grounded in facts and reason, scientists could solve the nation’s policy problems, says Shaughnessy Naughton. Her advocacy group 314 Action is trying to get them in the game. -
News
Why One Christian College Forgoes a Search Firm
Bethel College in Indiana prefers to rely on standard best practices and spiritual guidance in finding its leaders. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education (September 2017)
An $8-million gift to a community college to help construct a new building is among the recent gifts. -
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Faculty
How a College Aims to Breed Activists With Keen Eyes on Identity Politics
A new program at the City College of New York will teach activism with a nuanced approach to politics. -
Faculty
A Debate About White Supremacy and Medieval Studies Exposes Deep Rifts in the Field
Medievalists have been wrestling with their field’s connection to white supremacists. Now, one of their own has sharply challenged their fears, revealing a struggle to define the discipline’s future. -
The Review
The Grad Student Who Wants to Bring Down Trump
Ryan Shapiro takes his crusade against government secrecy to the steps of the White House. -
The Review
Russian Studies’ Alt-Right Problem
The field has not adequately rebuked the white supremacists appropriating its subject. -
Backgrounder
Cal State’s Retreat From Remediation Stokes Debate on College Readiness
The shift at the huge public-university system casts new attention on questions about how colleges decide who’s ready for college-level work. -
Leadership & Governance
U. of Virginia’s Next Chief Inherits a Wearied Institution
James Ryan, dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and a former law professor at UVa, will lead an institution that has gone from crisis to crisis. -
Commentary
Free Speech, Campus Safety, or Both
Can universities preserve both free speech on campus and the safety of speakers, audiences, and protesters? The answer involves myriad practical decisions, which campus leaders are making now. -
Administration
Faculty Letter at Brown U. Intensifies Standoff Over Tribe’s Claim to Land
A Native American group argues that a plot of land owned by the university is theirs by ancestral right. Scholars of indigenous studies at Brown cast doubt on the claim. -
Advice
Searching Without a Search Firm
If you are running a search without a consultant — and sometimes you should — do it under the right conditions. -
The Review
How Poets Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Academy
In the 20th century, amid two world wars and a depression, poets found shelter in the university. But is that where they should stay? -