News
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A Professor's Fight Over Shostakovich Heads to the Supreme Court
Lawrence Golan, music teacher and conductor, has a case whose outcome could affect access to many books and films, as well as to some composers' scores.
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2 Universities Under the Legal Gun
Book publishers take on Georgia State University, while video publishers sue the University of California at Los Angeles.
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What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should
In a maze of rights confusion, Nancy Sims, copyright-program librarian at the University of Minnesota, guides colleges to safety.
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Pushing Back Against Legal Threats by Putting Fair Use Forward
Two professors at American University fight against "copywrongs" with common-sense guides to the law.
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Out of Fear, Institutions Lock Millions of Books and Images Away from Scholars
Confronted with the murky copyright status of many works, academic archives are playing it safe and limiting online access to scholars.
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With Mallets Toward None ...
... but with pageantry, pomp, and champagne aplenty, St. John's College meets the U.S. Naval Academy for their annual croquet rivalry.
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Colleges Educate a New Kind of International Student
Younger, less-experienced students have a lot to learn about life in the United States, and programs are being devised to help them adjust.
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Sacramento State Deploys Support for Veterans Across the Campus
Despite limited resources, an Air Force veteran turned student turned administrator finds plenty of ways to make the place "veteran friendly."
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What's a Degree Worth? Report Has Answers, by Major
For the first time, researchers have analyzed earnings based on 171 college majors. They found wide differences, even among some in the same broad field.
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Online Learning Portals: Customizing Colleges Right Out of Higher Education?
Students could start bypassing admissions offices and creating learning portfolios that they can take directly to employers.
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Iowa's Multitude of Small Colleges Scrap for Students and Survival
Demographic trends promise to shrink the pool of likely applicants for years to come. The institutions competing for them are asking existential questions.
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Small-Town University Celebrates Diversity of Its Revenue Streams
Upper Iowa University developed a hub-and-spoke model of enrollment that stretches around the world.
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Sale to For-Profit Company Pulls a College Back from the Brink
One small college in Iowa was in danger of foundering until a for-profit education provider threw it a lifeline.
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Duke's China Plan Sparks Doubts on Campus
Some faculty members wonder if the university is pursuing a bold idea in its decision to build a campus in Kunshan or an "irrational craving for visibility."
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NCAA Penalizes 103 Teams for Missing Academic-Progress Mark
In the NCAA's newly released academic-progress report, 350 teams in Division I did not measure up, including some marquee programs.
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Accreditor to Offer New Model That Looks Into Corporate Practices of For-Profit Colleges
The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools said the optional new category could help allay lawmakers' concerns about the sector.
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Annual Portrait of Education Documents Swift Rise of For-Profit Colleges
From 1999 to 2009, the sector quintupled its share of bachelor's degrees, while public and private nonprofit colleges lost market share, data in a new federal report show.
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Some Medical Deans Fail to Disclose Outside Income on University Web Sites
Seven of the 161 deans examined in a report served on the boards of health-industry companies. Some failed to disclose or underreported their corporate earnings.
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Researcher Tracks Floating Debris From Japan's Earthquake
Jan Hafner, a computer scientist at the U. of Hawaii-Manoa, is modeling that trash heading our way across the Pacific.
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A Cree Professor Helps Create a Record of Canada's Infamous Residential Schools
As assistant director of research on a truth commission, Greg Younging will be hearing about the types of experiences that affected members of his own family.
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What're They Reading on College Campuses?
The Chronicle revamps its best-seller list.
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In Bangladesh, a New University Gives Women a Shot at Leadership
Its founder hopes Asian students will learn to help resolve conficts and make life more equitable back in their homelands.
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Roanoke College Mourns Loyal Chemistry Professor Who Retired at 100
Charles H. Fisher, credited with breakthroughs in wrinkle-resistant cotton and frozen orange juice, volunteered as an adjunct for nearly 40 years.
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With Antic Improvisation, Professors Learn to Share the Classroom Stage
Team-teaching is part of a new cross-disciplinary program at Philadelphia U., and so, of course, professors prepared by tossing imaginary green balls.
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Geeks at the Beach: 10 Summer Reads About Technology and Your Life
Recent reading (and a video) about how tech is turning culture and parts of higher education upside down.
The Chronicle Review
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Faces of Philosophy
Philosophers eye the world in intense ways. The photographer Steve Pyke eyes philosophers the same way.
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The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is a Long Spiral
Knowledge, progress, profit, and happiness are all best approached indirectly.
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Affirmative Action Is About Helping All of Us
Integration helps colleges, and society generally, as much as it does individuals.
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Five Things That University Presses Should Know About Working With Libraries
The relationship has changed, and it behooves publishers to learn what their longtime partners in scholarship need now.
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When You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
E-readers have changed the packaging picture.
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The Nature of E.B. White
Through animals, he found his humanity.
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Nota Bene: What's Interesting About Boredom; The Cost of Language
New in books, a "lively history" of boredom and an economic analysis of language diversity
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The Professor and the Pornographer
My mind raced: What would writing a book with Larry Flynt mean to my academic career?
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Debunking Myths About New Media, Old Paradigms
"Authors or scholars who try to be taken seriously without adopting and engaging the new media as the most central and serious part of their work only have a few years of...
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The Future of Power
The information revolution has upended the global balance of power, but America has failed to adjust.
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On Students Who Are Full of It
Are they sometimes reprehensible, cocky, illogical, free-associative, snarky know-nothings? Sure—and right on schedule.
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A Plea for Real-World Research
A journalist who turns to academic papers finds more questions than answers.
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What We Take With Us
When the last chalkboard is erased, we sense more fully our membership in the lineage of teachers past.
Commentary & Letters to the Editor
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Beyond the Press: Collegiate Journalism's Uncertain Future
Electronic distribution heralds a new era in the relationship between colleges and student newspapers, a time that is not likely to be any freer of controversy than was the...
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Accountability's Fine, But It Won't Replace Great Teachers
The challenge is greatest at community colleges, where assessing the variables is akin to nailing Jell-O to the wall.
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Master's Programs Defy Easy 'Profiling'
“Degree qualification” models developed to assess undergraduate learning don’t necessarily fit graduate education.
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Alumni Earnings: Not a Good Basis for Making Decisions
"Improving college accountability is an excellent goal, but we must ensure that the measures adopted are good indicators of institutional quality."
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Presidents Are Focused on Challenges Ahead
"The message that is communicated loud and clear at every conference of college presidents and in every campus trustee meeting is that no college can afford to be...
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The Value of a Humanities Degree: Six Students' Views
Students say their education matters as much as that of classmates in practical fields such as science and engineering.
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In Making Campuses Safe for Women, a Travesty of Justice for Men
Campus disciplinary groups might be equipped to handle plagiarism, but they lack the training to handle cases of rape.
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Blueprint for a Better Business Curriculum
A new approach is needed to helping undergraduate business majors make sense of the world and their place in it.
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Mad as Hell in California, and Students Should Be, Too
Why should the best university system in the world be plunged into mediocrity so that a few rich people can skimp on their taxes?
Advice
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From Dissertation to Book
Just when you thought the publication process couldn't get any harder ...
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Novel Academic Novels
Ms. Mentor offers her annual summer reading list for faculty members.
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How Education Schools Can Take Back Their Role in Policy
If academic experts are going to reassert their authority, they need to master the tools of contemporary policy analysis.
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Choosing Investments for Balance
Asset allocation and rebalancing are critical in retirement planning—and less difficult than they sound.
