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Chronicle List
Which Colleges Have the Most Managers per 1,000 Students?
The median number of managers per 1,000 students in 2016 was twice as high for four-year private nonprofit colleges as it was for four-year public colleges. -
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News
What Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Higher Ed Gets Wrong
Universities don’t really care about communicating with the public, says the world-famous astrophysicist. -
Fund Raising
In the Drive for Donors, Regional Public Colleges Have a Lot of Catching Up to Do
After decades of relying on state support, these workhorse institutions often need to build fund-raising operations from scratch. Here’s how some California campuses are taking on the challenge. -
The Review
Obituary for a Billion-Dollar Boondoggle
Nearly two decades ago, historians embraced a hugely wasteful federal education program. It’s past time to reckon with that. -
The Review
On Speech, Don’t Silence Students
Policies like the Chicago Statement leave undergrads out of the room. That’s a mistake. -
The Review
We’re Teaching Consent All Wrong
The idea of sexual consent is too intellectually rich — and too important — to relegate it to extracurricular workshops. -
Hiring Trends
When a Chief Diversity Officer Is Not Enough
More institutions are hiring administrators with “inclusive excellence” in their job titles, and some of them sit in the president’s cabinet. -
News
Insights From Other Instructors
Professors share the emails they use to “nudge” students at key moments in a course. -
News
Small Ways to Help Students Feel Noticed
Start by building excitement, says a professor who teaches large courses at the University of Arizona. -
News
Transitions: New President at Georgia Piedmont Technical College, Purdue U. Names New Communications Chief
Tavarez Holston took the helm at Georgia Piedmont this week. Dan Hasler was at the Purdue Research Foundation before taking Purdue University’s top communications role. -
Heavy Mental
Layin’ Down Grooves on the Tenure Track: the Wide World of Faculty Bands
Some songs of their songs are angsty, some are sweet, and some — well, many — are a little bit nerdy. -
The Review
‘I Want to Burn Things to the Ground’
Are the foot soldiers behind psychology’s replication crisis saving science — or destroying it? -
Relics
What Happened When One University Moved a Confederate Statue to a Museum
Three years ago, the University of Texas at Austin took down a campus monument to Jefferson Davis. That offers one possible solution to the question now facing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. -
News
These Parents Want to Change the Frats Where Their Sons Died
A partnership, announced on Monday, brings together families and the governing organizations of the nation’s fraternities and sororities. The coalition follows months of meetings among them. -
Research
In Sociologists’ #MeToo Moment, Does Their Response Heed the Lessons of Social Science?
One prominent sexual-assault researcher says clear, evidence-based policies are needed but have yet to be created. -
Commentary
Don’t Dismiss the Value of Free-College Programs. They Do Help Low-Income Students.
Two new reports ignore the many ways that state plans make a college education more affordable — and more realistic — for financially needy families. -
News
Avital Ronell Blowback Has Entered College Classrooms. Here’s How Scholars Are Responding.
Professors are grappling with how to teach works by an academic star found responsible for harassment — and by her broad network of supporters. -
News
Scholars Describe an ‘Incalculable Loss’ as a Museum in Brazil Goes Up in Flames
A few researchers rushed into the burning building to haul out artifacts before the growing inferno forced them out. -
Diversity
This College Is on the Front Lines of America’s Divides. Here’s How It’s Working to Bridge Them.
Diversity-hiring strategies, cultural-competence training, curricular changes, and a busy student-heritage calendar are among the efforts at MiraCosta College, in Southern California. But these practices are controversial and difficult, with setbacks and resistance at every step. -
Faculty Hiring
Do Chief Diversity Officers Help Diversify a University’s Faculty? This Study Found No Evidence
Researchers detected no real increase in faculty diversity at universities that had hired diversity officials. But, as one author of the study explains, it’s complicated. -
Backgrounder
I Worked With Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser.
When genuine criticism is undertaken at the risk of ostracism, marginalization, retribution — this is a culture where abuses like hers grow. -
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Advice
How the Jobs Crisis Has Transformed Faculty Hiring
In the literary humanities, a sea change is underway in the job-search process and the discipline itself. -
From the Archives
How a Decades-Old Experiment Sparked a War Over the Future of Psychology
The Stanford Prison Experiment lasted just six days, and it took place 47 years ago. But it has shaped our fundamental understanding of human nature. Now many in the field are wondering: Should it have? -
The Review
How to Help Combat Global Warming, Campus by Campus
A confluence of expertise, enthusiasm, talent, and social responsibility makes universities the logical first responders to the growing climate-change crisis.