News
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Cheating Is Now Only a Click Away, So Professors Reduce Incentives
By limiting the influence of students' clicker responses on grades, faculty members can discourage use of the handheld devices by stealthy surrogates.
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Program Reviews Lead to 'Death Spirals' but Also Some Happy Endings
When academic programs must offer justification for their continued existence, the results can be unpredictable.
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10 Years After 9/11, a Student Veteran Moves On
David Curtis, who enlisted in the Army after that tragic day, now studies criminal justice with the hope of one day working in federal law enforcement.
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A Bold Experiment Brings Students Together, if Only for a Week
Students and faculty say the college's "low residency" program for adults offers the most relevant education for these times.
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A Photography Professor Struggles With Saudi Culture in Transition
Her year at a women's university in Riyadh was not an easy one, but it was the most rewarding teaching experience of her life.
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Antipoverty Group Works With Community Colleges to Graduate More Students
Single Stop USA ensures that students' financial and social needs are met so they can concentrate on their studies.
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Gerontology Programs Get Creative to Extend Their Own Life Spans
Given demographic inevitability, one would expect the field to be booming. But there's the image problem to get past.
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How Our Brains Got Big and Our Penises Lost Their Spines
A new way to measure the DNA differences between chimps and humans reveals genes that might be behind our leap into humanity.
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One Thing That's Not Obvious
Erica Burzio's family joined together to help her get moved in at college, and that, in itself, is amazing.
Commentary
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Minding the Midpoint Where Labor and Education Meet
Anthony Carnevale and the reports issued by his Center on Education and the Workforce deserve their large audience.
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My 64 Years of Fighting for Innovation
From community colleges to online education, one educator's career has focused on providing opportunities for those who need them most.
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How American Colleges Can Better Serve Chinese Applicants
Foreign students often think they must hire recruiting agents to be accepted, and university administrators are partially to blame.
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Useless? Hardly—Strategic Plans Are Essential
"While it may be easy to lampoon the concept of strategic planning, it is hard to imagine colleges and universities moving forward without a plan that is widely understood...
The Chronicle Review
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The Battle Over Zomia
Scholars are enchanted by the notion of this region of state-evading peoples in the highlands of Asia. But how real is it?
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Jack the Ripper's Interdisciplinary Rap Sheet
Amateur sleuths have long been on the case. But now a variety of academics too are examining it for broader societal clues.
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A Campus Novel About Leaving Campus Behind
In his much-anticipated The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides examines the perilous transition into postcollegiate life.
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Let's Get Serious About Cultivating Creativity
Creativity may be key to America's future, but we have little data on how it is best acquired and applied. A new study is changing that.
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Why Read Book Reviews?
They're cultural windows, expert glosses, acute haikus. Oh yeah, and sometimes they also help you decide what to read.
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Nota Bene: Insider Views of the Metropolis
Bike messengers and walking-tour guides see cities like no one else. Two sociologists give us a taste of those perspectives.
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Weekly Book List, September 6, 2011
Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category.
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Portfolio: Homeless
Hard Ground chronicles hard circumstances through Michael O'Brien's photos and Tom Waits's poetry.
Advice
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Tales From the Grad-Advising Crypt
Even after decades of advising experience, many professors can't predict which graduate students will succeed and which ones will flame out.
