News

• UVa's Painfully Public Lesson in Leadership

  This is how the story of one university president's forced resignation and subsequent reinstatement came to capture national attention.

• Faculty Power Brokers at UVa

• Timeline: A Frenetic Fortnight for Teresa Sullivan and UVa

  As controversy enveloped UVa over the fate of President Teresa Sullivan,  here's a look at what happened and when.

• Teresa Sullivan Reinstated at UVa: Complete Coverage

  In a surprising comeback, the ousted president was welcomed back by the university's Board of Visitors. Follow the story and sift through key documents here.

• Federal-Loan Changes May Curb Graduate Study

  After July 1, the in-school interest subsidy will be eliminated on new loans to graduate students. They will have to pay interest while enrolled—or let it build.

• A Conversation With Bill Gates

  The founder of Microsoft talks about the future of higher education, goals for his foundations, and how technology can help.

• Income-Based Repayment of Student Loans: If Only Borrowers Knew

  An income-based federal effort to help the borrowers who need it most has attracted little attention. The Obama administration is taking steps to widen the program's appeal.

• Now Hiring: Hundreds of Professors

  The University of Connecticut is one of a few institutions planning to beef up their faculties, bad economy or no.

• Undocumented 'Dreamers' in College Welcome Policy Change on Immigration

  A new policy falls far short of the long-discussed Dream Act, but it should help those students put their degrees to use.

• 193 Vocational Programs Fail 'Gainful Employment' Test

  Data released by the Education Department identify programs that would be at risk of losing access to federal student aid under the new rule.

• Teaching Hospitals, Medical Students Applaud Supreme Court's Health-Care Ruling

  The decision means incentives to expand the nation's primary-care work force will survive, but so too will challenges to hospitals' bottom lines.

• Yale and National U. of Singapore Hammer Out New College's Curriculum

  Structuring a course of liberal-arts study that marries Eastern and Western academic traditions proves challenging.

• 6 Paths to Yale-National U. of Singapore

• Colleges' Efforts to Globalize Slip in Some Areas

  American institutions support international projects over all, but certain activities have declined since 2006.

• Flush North Dakota System Looks to New Chancellor to Guide It Past Controversies

  Hamid Shirvani intends to give the well-financed North Dakota University System careful oversight, to avoid some of the problems of the past.

• 'As College Students, We Can Do Something'

  Shane Zhao, a Chinese student at Amherst College, talks about the Rio+20 earth summit and the environmental group he founded in China.

• Transitions: Governor to Lead Purdue U.; Well-Paid President of Nonprofit Is Dismissed

  Gov. Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., of Indiana, was chosen by a board he had mostly appointed. Read about that and other job-related news.

• A Handshake, a Hand Painting, and a Google Biker

  Glimpses of life in academe from around the world.

• Mob Rule, Political Intrigue, and the Occasional Assassination

  A role-playing game by a history professor motivates students. A Chronicle reporter took part in the unorthodox teaching method to see how it works.

• Auburn Students Become Small-Town Citizens for the Summer

  The university has placed seven students in towns across Alabama as part of a civic-engagement program called Living Democracy.

• When One Biographer 'Borrows' From Another, the Dispute Gets Philosophical

  A professor publishes an account of Nietzsche's life and work. Another professor notices that a previous author also spake in similar terms.

• More Similarities Between 2 Biographies of Nietzsche

• Early Computing's 'Deal With the Devil'

  In his new book, "Turing's Cathedral," George Dyson tells how the race for the hydrogen bomb made one of the first computers possible.

• For Women, Japan's Academic Ladder Needs Major Repair

  Despite adopting measures to improve gender diversity at the upper levels of higher education, the country lags far behind others around the world.

The Chronicle Review

• Has Higher Education Become an Engine of Inequality?

  Education, long praised as the great equalizer, no longer seems to be performing as advertised. Why? We asked 10 experts to weigh in.

• The Kilogram Conundrum

  A proposed radical redefinition of a basic unit of measurement has weighty implications for science and teaching.

• Defusing 'Mein Kampf'

  With the notorious book's copyright soon to expire, German authorities plan to annotate away its ideological poison.

• 'The Other America' at 50

  No book today is likely to shape domestic policy the way Michael Harrington’s did.

• What Are Black Holes Good For?

  Not just for devouring cosmic matter, but also for sustaining life, a new book argues.

• How Do I Look in This iPod?

  A boomer prof attempts dignity with earbuds.

• 'lu u mom'

  Helicopter parents? Maybe. Or maybe just better parents. It depends on who's asking.

• From Bench to Bunker

  Basic discoveries in the biological sciences can lead to unexpected places, including the battlefield.

• Reforming Copyright Is Possible

  And it's the only way to create a national digital library.

• Some Artists Really Are Too Cool for School

  Some people have a way with language that college would be likely to hamper.

• Post Ph.D., an Intellectual Comes to Her Senses

  A woman's affair with perfume began as a slow, secret flirtation that turned into an obsession.

Commentary

• Back to the Future for UVa

  Will Teresa Sullivan be another John Silber? Stephen Joel Trachtenberg looks back at another controversial president.

• The Worrisome Ascendance of Business in Academe

  The corporate approach to higher education is not new. But board members at the University of Virginia don't seem to have learned from experience.

• How a University Put Its Global Reach to Good Use

  Northwestern University in Qatar found a way to promote freedom of expression in a region where no such tradition exists.

• There's No Learning When Nobody's Listening

  A professor of education observes her students and notices that a critical aspect of education is disappearing.

Advice

• The Grounded Curriculum

  How can our courses and teaching capitalize more effectively on the benefits of a physical campus?

• Becoming a 'Stylish' Writer

  Attractive prose will not make you appear any less smart.

• 'You're All Going to Fail'

  An American Ph.D. who quit her tenure-track job to move abroad finds that more than a few of her colleagues enjoy mocking the students.