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Since The Chronicle first appeared 41 years ago, readers have relied on us to report important news and define the key trends in higher education. We're proud that we have helped many of you find your first jobs in higher education (as well as subsequent ones) and assisted you in doing those jobs well every day.

We now reach more than 350,000 readers in print each week. In October a record 1.5 million visitors came to our Web site, chronicle.com, and viewed 17.2 million pages. Part of that growth can be attributed to the fact that now anyone at more than 700 colleges worldwide can gain access to our Web site through campuswide site licenses.

But in an age when our readers have so many information sources at their fingertips, we know we need to compete for your valuable time. Beginning this week, we are making several changes in how The Chronicle covers the world of higher education, and how we present it in print and on the Web, in an effort to better meet your needs.

With this issue, we have redesigned our guide to The Chronicle, called "This Week." Its goal is to provide you with a quick summary of the news of higher education — some of which you will be able to find more about elsewhere in the issue — as well as a look ahead to the essential events of the following week. This column will be dedicated in future weeks to analysis of a higher-education story in the news.

Inside the paper, we have reduced the number of departments. Issues like information technology, research, government policy, and athletics are embedded in nearly every facet of a college's operation, so you'll now find such stories incorporated into four main departments: The Faculty, Money & Management, Students, and International. Government & Politics and Information Technology will remain as smaller departments following Money & Management.

The increased number of intersections among jobs on college campuses led us to reassign reporters and editors in our newsroom and create several new coverage areas. Among them: a new beat that will focus on the role of colleges in economic development locally and globally, and one that will cover the pipeline to college, including demographics and the connections between colleges and the public schools.

A full list of beats and contact information for reporters and editors can be found at http://chronicle.com/contact/staff.htm

More changes are to come in 2008. Next month The Chronicle Review will expand its coverage of books, the arts, and intellectual debate, with a new design and new approaches in print and online. One online feature has already been introduced: a blog called Brainstorm, written by seven academics commenting on everything from university life to the arts (see http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm).

With the change in the Review, opinion articles about higher-education policy will move into a newly created Commentary department in the news section.

Later in 2008 we will introduce a new look for chronicle.com that we think will make it an even more essential part of your daily life.

We welcome your ideas and suggestions at editor@chronicle.com