Oct. 5, 2018

Teaching is the aspect of the job that the largest share of professors find satisfying, a Chronicle survey shows. But students are also a major source of stress.

If departments are not mindful of the underlying pitfalls, those temporary positions can become just one more cycle on the academic hamster wheel before the exhausted hamster simply gives up.

No, a tale of two scholars suggests. A constructive approach can benefit the scholar, the college, and students alike.

Five years ago, Mariela Shaker left Syria for rural Illinois. Here’s what she has been able to do since.

Co-curricular activities can be used to give students the skills they will need to succeed.

When the pressures of social media and political correctness join forces, freewheeling academic discourse suffers.

Lisa C. Freeman has been acting president of Northern Illinois University since 2017. Craig Johnson is Northwestern’s new vice president for business and finance.

For every sanction you hear about, there are scores that you don’t.

With a decision on the fate of the Confederate statue due by November 15, Carol Folt faces an intractable question: What is a consensus builder to do when it doesn’t appear there’s a consensus to be had?

Black public-university students in two states with the highest percentage of African-American residents are among the most disadvantaged nationwide, according to a report from the University of Southern California.

Even though physics is a STEM field, it has to work to win over students and parents from majors, like computer science and engineering, that sound more practical. Here’s what the discipline is doing to demonstrate it gives students a leg up for a broad set of careers.

The university system’s board chair said on Friday that the system would wait until a second investigation is completed before making “final decisions.”

The former student-body president has neither confirmed nor denied that she accepted illegal campaign funds from the shadowy conservative group.

The Council of Independent Colleges took the pulse of campus leaders and found race, representation, and a hostile political climate among their concerns.

Randy Boyd doesn’t have experience in academe, but the scandal-plagued system could use “an outside-in perspective,” as the chair of the Board of Trustees put it.

The program, aimed at nontraditional students, illustrates the growing credibility and popularity of online education.

His university, however, says the scholar’s personal politics are out of place.