http://chronicle.com/section/Commentary/44/ Opinion & Ideas :: Commentary Fri, 18 May 2012 02:13:31 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131851/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-Schools-of-Theology-Its/131851/ Amid financial troubles and declining enrollments, the largest challenge may be cultural—seminaries have to adapt to a changing world.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131842/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Professors-Bring-to/131842/ We belong there, among the parents and friends, because we have been a part of our students' journey.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131803/ http://chronicle.com/article/Tired-of-Debating-Teacher/131803/ The dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia says the failure of a government proposal should spark new ideas.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131786/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Colleges-Endowment/131786/ It need not suffer an inevitable trade-off in performance by incorporating responsible-investing criteria.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131790/ http://chronicle.com/article/Next-Time-Fail-Better/131790/ Computer-science students are used to failure's being part of the creative process. We need to help humanities students think the same way.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131729/ http://chronicle.com/article/Asian-Americans-the-New-Jews/131729/ For the dearth of Asian-American college presidents, we can blame the same shameful mistake made twice.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131738/ http://chronicle.com/article/To-End-Fraternity-Hazing-End/131738/ Here are three steps colleges can take to protect their students from harm and themselves from liability.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131728/ http://chronicle.com/article/Theres-More-Than-One-Way-to/131728/ The link between college and national defense, broadly construed, may be gone. It's time to bring it back.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131623/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Public-University/131623/ An ill-conceived merger plan in New Jersey is a warning that any state college can fall prey to powerful political interests.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131622/ http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Telling-Students-to-Study/131622/ Giving students traditional tests, especially the sadistic ritual of finals, is not just a waste of their time, it's counterproductive.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131620/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Suddenly-Empty-Chair/131620/ After a student's suicide, an instructor questions herself.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131547/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-Women-to-Think/131547/ Creativity and playfulness may offer surprising strategies for closing the gender gap in some STEM fields.

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131536/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-Unequal-State-Support/131536/ To expand the number of poor and minority students who get bachelor's degrees, states must stop playing favorites with elite campuses.

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131550/ http://chronicle.com/article/In-College-Classrooms-the/131550/ To what extent has the growth in seriousness of sports at that level contributed to the general dumbing down of public education?

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131455/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Future-Full-of-Badges/131455/ It might take some time, but the credentials that validate learning are about to be transformed.

]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131451/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-Student-Success-Stop/131451/ Colleges could be doing many things to close the degree-attainment gap between the haves and the have-nots, but they're not doing them.

]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131371/ http://chronicle.com/article/Scholarship-Liberated-From/131371/ Today almost all research papers are born digital. And it's past time for tenure-and-promotion committees to deal with this reality.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:02:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131372/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Does-Tuition-Go-Up-/131372/ It's that simple, writes a professor of management science and economics at the University of Iowa.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131370/ http://chronicle.com/article/Campus-Sustainability-Its/131370/ Depending on what it does now, the movement can either flower into fullness or hit the green wall, doomed to irrelevance.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131306/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Protect-Your-Students/131306/ In the wake of the Rutgers case, three areas to focus on.

]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131307/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-Science-PhDs-There-Is/131307/ Too many young researchers are made to feel worthless because of their desire to leave academic science.

]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131305/ http://chronicle.com/article/Generation-Me-on-Trial/131305/ The Tyler Clementi case highlights several distressing trends rippling through American youth culture, including a serious lack of empathy.

]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131248/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Protect-Your-Students/131248/ In the wake of the Rutgers case, three areas to focus on.

]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131246/ http://chronicle.com/article/Generation-Me-on-Trial/131246/ The Tyler Clementi case highlights several distressing trends rippling through American youth culture, including a lack of empathy.

]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:25:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131228/ http://chronicle.com/article/Gray-Matters/131228/ A professor is troubled after being asked when she would retire.

]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131227/ http://chronicle.com/article/In-Search-of-a-Professors/131227/ Just as there are campus offices in which to negotiate retirement packages, there could be one for "intellectual renewal and continuation."

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