By . The Supreme Court’s proceedings resembled a debate over educational research more than a fight over constitutional principles as the justices heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a challenge to race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin. More...
What People Want to Know About the Payoff of Different Degrees
By Beckie Supiano. For years, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has produced data-rich reports on the job market for college graduates with various majors and levels of attainment. More...
‘Sometimes I Cry’: a Ground-Level View of Student Poverty
By Steve Kolowich. Student hunger and homelessness can be hard to notice, but Hattie Elmore sees them up close, all the time. More...
How a President Is Fighting Online Harassment of Minority Students
By Peter Schmidt. The Yik Yak comment was one of several last week that had the university’s minority students complaining of feeling harassed or endangered. Some of the posts appeared to be reactions to a debate over whether the university’s mascot, the Viking, was sufficiently racially inclusive. More...
Are You Afraid of a Campus Shooting?
By Andy Thomason. Recent mass shootings, on college campuses and off, combined with a wave of online threats of gun violence against universities, have sparked heated discussions about gun control and campus safety. More...
‘This Case Shouldn’t Be Here Again’: Activists Outside the Supreme Court on ‘Fisher’ and Race
By Ellen Wexler. As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the latest in a long line of cases to challenge race-conscious college admissions, protesters gathered outside. More...
32 Leaders of Private Colleges Earned More Than $1 Million in 2013
By Sandhya Kambhampati. The pay of 32 private-college presidents topped $1 million in 2013, with the two longest-serving Ivy League leaders, Lee Bollinger, of Columbia University, and Amy Gutmann, of the University of Pennsylvania, earning the most, a Chronicle analysis has found. More...
For Students, Expectations About Academic Rigor Are Far From Universal
By . Which students pushed themselves academically, and at what kinds of institutions, features prominently in the report of this year’s National Survey of Student Engagement, known as Nessie. The results, released on Thursday, are either sobering or predictable, depending on your view of students and colleges. More...
Why Economists on the Academic Job Market Must Strike Quickly
By . A few weeks ago, our JobTracker project took on a tricky question: How long do scholars on the academic job market stay marketable. More...
In Fight Over Academic Publishing House, Fear of Corporate Values
By Steve Kolowich. When Ashgate Publishing was bought last summer by Informa, a large corporation, some academics feared for its future. What would happen to the family-owned publishing house, which had spent four decades building a reputation for social responsibility and close relationships with its authors. More...