News
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In Oil Patch, College Enrollments Slow Amid a Gusher of Jobs
With an abundance of low-skill jobs paying good wages in the oil business, Texas colleges are finding it difficult to recruit students.
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Class Rank: Slippery Metric, On the Wane
As fewer high schools rank students, colleges use estimates. So a "squishy" number grows even less meaningful.
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Here's Smarty-Pants, Home for the Holidays
Besides having to deal with academic demands, many graduate students from working-class backgrounds feel like strangers in their own families at this time of year.
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The Welfare State's Secret Weapon
In disaster relief, a law professor and sociologist sees the roots of the modern welfare state.
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Culinary School Gives Latinos a Taste of the Top
With scholarships and other special programs, the Culinary Institute of America's Texas campus hopes to make its Latino students into industry leaders.
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When Planned Gifts Don't Go as Planned
A fight between George Mason University and a would-be donor's grown children has raged over years and across states.
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Wired Campus: In Classroom Experiment, All Discussion Happened via Twitter
Students in a George Mason University course on cellphone cultures tweeted their comments to one another even as they sat in the same room.
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Higher-Education Groups Weigh In in Supreme Court Fight Over Defining a 'Supervisor'
In a workplace-discrimination suit involving Ball State University, the groups say that a broad definition could render colleges increasingly liable in court.
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Leading Digital-Humanities Researcher Joins City U. of New York
The availability of so much data at New York institutions drew Lev Manovich to leave the University of California at San Diego for the City University of New York's Graduate...
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Accountability Expert Takes New Job to Defend Liberal Education
David C. Paris is leaving the New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability to join the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
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Transitions: Director of Digital Learning Appointed at MIT; President Named for Misericordia U.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology chose an engineering professor to lead online-course efforts. Read about that and other job-related news.
The Chronicle Review
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Who's Afraid of Black Sexuality?
Scholars are starting to break taboos to study intimacy, homosexuality, incest, porn, and other delicate matters.
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Black Dandies Fashion New Academic Identities
Three professors talk about why they wear what they wear.
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Books From Nowhere
Texts stripped of their writing and publication contexts can't be fully fathomed.
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Conservative Styles in Campus Politics
Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood, authors of "Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives," discuss their book with Mark Bauerlein.
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Dream Map to a Mind Seized
A Victorian literature specialist seeks the elusive key to her son's thoughts and feelings beyond the veils of his autism and epilepsy.
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Who Do I Think I Am?
When a professor encountered one student's increasing desperation to get into her class, her own reaction surprised her.
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This Is Your Brain on Borges
A neuroscientist finds that his research on the mind echoes intuitions expressed by the late writer.
Commentary
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Wasting Time and Money in the Lab
Scientific progress is being slowed by excessive, redundant, and ineffective government regulations.
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When Trying Harder Doesn't Work
Higher education seems to finally be realizing that a much bigger change is needed.
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Open Access to Research Can Save Lives
It should become the default method in every country for distributing new peer-reviewed scientific material in every field.
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Letters: As Science Is Politicized, U.S. Prestige Wanes
“Many of our citizens and politicians are totally ignorant of, or outright opposed to, the very bases on which science rests.”
Advice
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What if We Made Fewer Ph.D.'s?
In search of the "right size" for American doctoral programs, let's not return to the days when graduate education was dominated by elite universities and old-boys networks.
