News
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On an Immigration Fault Line, Arizona Colleges Strive to Maintain Openness
As anti-immigration measures pile up, diversity at public institutions comes under close watch by administrators.
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Legal or Illegal, Mexican Immigrants Pose an Educational Challenge to States
Mexicans now make up a third of the foreign-born population in the United States, and manh of them aren't getting to college.
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Today's Presidents Might Come With Toddlers
As college leaders get younger, some lucky kids get a very big backyard.
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Sonny Vaccaro Helped Commercialized College Sports. Now He Wants Athletes to Profit, Too.
A lawsuit pending against the NCAA may grant the old entrepreneur his new wish.
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Central Michigan U. Professors Fight to Protect Their Political Ambitions
They respond to the university's setting limits on their ability to run for political office.
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In Alaska, a Fight Brews Over Frontiers of Professors' Speech Rights
Two journalism professors at the University of Alaska are told that they will no longer be paid to publish their own political opinions.
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Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom
Instructors who cling to outdated practices may be holding back sorely needed teaching innovations.
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Wal-Mart Should Be Praised for Deal With University
"Wal-Mart's efforts to bring higher education to employees should be applauded, especially if the company is paying the tuition for employees.,"
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'Anything Is Possible When You're in the Library'
The star of Brigham Young University's Old Spice parody gets a whiff of success.
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5 Minutes With: A Law Professor on the Property Rights of the Dead
Corporate interests snap up those rights for their own benefit, says Ray D. Madoff, of Boston College Law School,
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A Professor Studies How African-American Religions Affect Media and Culture
Jonathan Walton says his new job at Harvard Divinity School gives him a chance to give, by teaching future ministers, as well as to "take," by doing his research.
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'Smackademics' Join the Ranks of Roller-Derby Women
Women join skating teams for camaraderie and exercise, but it's the tight-knit support system that keeps them coming back.
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English-Testing Companies Vie for Slices of Growing Market
Global student mobility and the growing use of English have created new opportunities for the companies, which are competing ever more fiercely.
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Publishing Research Data Is Essential to Science
"The research enterprise would collapse if everyone attempted to only publish in such journals as 'Nature' and 'Science.'"
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A Sonnet for the Tsunami of Digital Information
"What depths beneath that pane of glass may lie/The casual observer cannot see."
Special Report: Great Colleges to Work For
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Great Colleges Try to Stay Great in Tough Times
The recession has taken a toll, shaking confidence in leadership, but over all the 2010 Great Colleges to Work For survey points to strengths of colleges as employers.
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Right Place, Right Time: One Student-Affairs Officer's Story
A chance to become a college registrar led a former bank teller into higher-education administration.
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An Urban Campus That Feels Like Home
One of the ways the University of Southern California makes employees feel welcome is by encouraging connections with the surrounding neighborhoods.
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A Working-Mother Lawyer Leaves the Counsel's Office to Lead Alumni Affairs
An Ohio State administrator left corporate America for the scholarly world.
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Tightknit Juniata Community Lives and Teaches Its Liberal-Arts Ethic
At this small college long on charm, the close relationships between faculty members are "like chemistry in a little reaction chamber."
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A Friend's Crisis Leads a Onetime Student Janitor to a Research Job
A Gonzaga University researcher says his friend's suicide spurred him to take a proactive approach to improve his circumstances.
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A Canadian College Where Adjuncts Go to Prosper
At Vancouver Community College, in British Columbia, part-time instructors are entitled to benefits considered especially generous.
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A Jack-of-All-Academic-Trades Masters Several of Them
Stephen L. Varvis is a history professor and a vice president at Fresno Pacific University. Those are only his latest jobs there.
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At Wake Tech Community College, Employees Know Their Voices Will Be Heard
They feel they can openly discuss job issues and concerns, which is just how the college's president wants it.
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The Senior Professor: Deadwood or Iceberg?
Junior faculty members who disparage their elders often don't see below the surface of life after tenure.
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Quirky Perks
Gourmet food, sports tickets, and vacation cabins are zesty additions to the standard benefits menu.
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Economy Slows Colleges' Ability to Hire and (Maybe) Retirements, Too
Colleges that have frozen hiring face another complication: Older faculty members aren't retiring, which would free up funds.
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Strategies for Landing a Job at a Small College
We're not investigating how smart you are. We're not grading you. You're one of us now, an academic. We're looking for the person who meets our needs.
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Great Colleges to Work For 2010: How the Survey Was Conducted
The methodology behind this special report
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Editor's Note
Welcome to The Chronicle's third annual special issue on the Academic Workplace, featuring the results of our Great Colleges to Work For survey.
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How I Solved My Midlife Crisis
Did I simply want to phone in my job for the next two decades and spend more time playing the banjo?
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The Ivory Sweatshop: Academe Is No Longer a Convivial Refuge
Gone are the days when academe was considered a convivial refuge from the corporate world, a place where scholars had ample time to debate ideas over lunch or drinks.
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Goodbye to Those Overpaid Professors in Their Cushy Jobs
The stereotype of easy living enjoyed by college professors hasn't entirely given way to the untenured reality, but it may soon be history.
Commentary
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Why Do You Think They're Called For-Profit Colleges?
The worst players in the industry are ruthlessly exploiting the commodified college degree. But they didn't commodify it in the first place.
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7 Signs of Successful Study-Abroad Programs
Why do as few as 1.5 percent of college students study overseas each year? Because colleges thwart their efforts. Here's how not to.
Advice
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Working With Jerks
In science, tenured or not, sometimes you don't have a choice about who you collaborate with.
