By Ellen Wexler. In the first half of 2015, venture-capital funding in ed tech totaled well over $1 billion. CB Insights, which tracks investments in private companies, puts the number at $1.4 billion. EdSurge, an education-technology reporting website, estimates that the investments total $1.6 billion. More...

By Daniel Regan. Electives are the neglected offspring of American undergraduate education. Accrediting bodies have little to say about them. A keyword search through the New England regional standards reveals a single mention. More...

By Kelly Field. Lawmakers in the House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would temporarily lift caps on both military and domestic spending, providing an additional $40 billion for nondefense spending — including education programs — over the next two years. More...

By Goldie Blumenstyk. In 2005 a team of Chronicle reporters and editors undertook a reporting experiment to predict the state of higher education 10 years in the future. We based that series of articles, "Higher Education 2015: How Will the Future Shake Out?," on seemingly durable trends, available data, and some educated guessing by dozens of experts. To reflect the range of possibilities, we offered up predictions based on both best-case and worst-case scenarios for such topics as the state of tenure, for-profit colleges, and the pace of internationalization. More...

By L. Maren Wood. How long am I marketable?
It’s one of the most difficult questions an academic job seeker can face. And it’s one of the most important questions we hope our Academic JobTracker project can help answer. More...

By Kate Stoltzfus. Think seating charts in the classroom are needed only in elementary school? According to a new study, randomly assigned seats are also the most immediate way to prevent cheating among college students. More...

By David D. Perlmutter. How do you recognize when a department with a job opening is not the place for you?
You took the job because you thought it seemed like a good fit and, after all, it was a tenure-track offer. Then you arrive on the campus only to find yourself trapped in a bog.Maybe the problem is bait-and-switch support, where the department promises much more than it intends or is able to give. Maybe the faculty culture turns out to be toxic, and you spend every day praying for deliverance from your sniping, backstabbing colleagues. More...