News
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Budget Cuts Intensify Identity Crisis at Washington's Flagship Campus
Reducing state support at the University of Washington may hasten the kind of privatization that has already taken effect at other public universities.
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'Open Teaching': When the World Is Welcome in the Online Classroom
Why not invite the rest of the world to join students in an online class? Some instructors are putting their teaching to just that test.
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Eureka! Running Jogs the Academic Mind
Academics enjoy inspirational moments, big and small, miles into their daily runs.
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The Quality Question
Over the next few months, The Chronicle will explore debates about quality in higher education—how to measure it and how to improve it.
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The New Muscle: 5 Quality-of-Learning Projects That Didn't Exist 5 Years Ago
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Federal Judge Overturns Obama Policy on Stem Cells
The judge said the president's executive order of last year violates a ban on the use of federal money for research in which human embryos are destroyed.
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The Minds Behind the Mind-Set List
Tom McBride and Ron Nief keep an eye on the past as they move Beloit College's list into the future.
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5 Minutes With a Professor Who Led a Relief Effort in His Native Haiti
Claude R. Malary wanted to do something to help after the earthquake. So he led students on a service-learning visit.
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For the Chancellor of a New Online Campus, Every Workday Is About Branding
Allison Barber, who once worked for the Defense Department, now spends her days trying to find adults in underserved groups to enroll in WGU Indiana.
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Running Sustained an Engineer Through a Professional Ordeal
It took years, but Virginia Tech's Marc Edwards outran powerful foes in a life-and-death argument.
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Reason for Hope Survives in Academic Publishing Despite a Month of Bad News
Publishers continue to innovate in the face of scattered reports of trouble.
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Get the Word Out About Student Aid, and They Will Come
To bring in more students, Fairleigh Dickinson University created more ways for families to learn about scholarships and loans.
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As Pension Costs Rise, Public Colleges Pay the Price
The erosion of traditional retirement plans makes it harder still to compete in the academic job market.
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Stem-Cell Research Backed by a Company Advances to First Human Therapy Test
In the kind of partnership that may become more common, the Geron Corporation financed the development of the cells in a lab at the University of California at Irvine.
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Where Admissions Meet Faith
At Lincoln Christian University, financial-aid decisions are matters of dollars and prayer.
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In Economic Downturn, Colleges Eye International Education: Cut Back or Forge Ahead?
Some colleges push ahead in their globalization plans despite financial problems.
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Boise State Cuts International Office to Save Its Services
The Idaho university has abolished its central office of international programs and dispersed its programs throughout the campus.
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Reality and Sustainability: A Philosopher's View
"Rather than standing their ground and speaking the truth about what they know, however, most university faculty members seem to be running scared."
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No-Nonsense Attendance Policies Would Cut Default Rates
"While I was being interviewed for an adjunct teaching job at a privately owned, multicampus college, the program director advised me that the school offered career-focused...
The Chronicle Review
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What's the Big Idea?
For The Review's 10th anniversary, we posed that question to some thoughtful academics.
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Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
Will the king of academe's text mountain be dethroned?
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College Love: John, Harvard, and Me
Some institutional attachments border on the obsessive.
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Evolution of an Article
"After a process of editing that went on for weeks, the final product ... had lost important reader cues."
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The Language of Rage
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Getting a Life After Death
Commentary
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How to Create a Problem-Solving Institution (and Avoid Organizational Silos)
These five strategies will help universities turn good ideas into reality (and avoid organizational silos).
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'Sex Week' Should Arouse Caution Most of All
Universities should take control of popular campus workshops about sex, where pornography, sex toys, and violence take center stage.
Advice
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5 Steps to a Memorable Teaching Philosophy
How do you write a teaching statement that doesn't sound exactly like everybody else's?