Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Audrey Williams June

Why do some professors pile up articles in refereed journals or present their research at conferences more than their colleagues do? According to a new study, faculty members' gender, their marital status, and whether they have dependent children are among the factors that make a difference. A professor's discipline and where he or she works affects research productivity, too. A paper...

Special Report

Amid Calls for Change, College Majors Seem Firmly Fixed

The more academe changes, the more the list of majors stays the same, even though some experts say a radical reorganization of disciplines is needed.
5 College Majors On the Rise

Growing fields include service science, health informatics, computational science, sustainability, and public health.
Why Mark Taylor Wants to Abolish Your Department

An interview with the Columbia U. professor of religion who proposes basing higher education on networks rather than grids.
Students and Businesses Demand More Training in Job Skills

Some college experts say that more institutions will start looking like the University of Phoenix, with job-focused courses aimed at working adults.
How They Did It: Computational Science

It takes collaboration to start a major in this up-and-coming discipline, as institutions like the State University of New York College at Brockport have learned.
How They Did It: Public Health

Despite turf anxieties and concerns about rigor, a new undergraduate program at the University of South Carolina is off to a smooth start.
It Pays to Be Nimble: New Majors at Community Colleges

Two-year colleges can move faster than others to create new programs that respond to local work-force needs.

Graduate Students

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Faculty Data

Libraries

In Face of Professors' 'Fury,' Syracuse U. Library Will Keep Books on Shelves

Two hundred people attended a University Senate meeting to discuss ways to avoid sending part of the library's print collection to storage.
Research Librarians Discuss How to Sell Scholars on Open Access, and More

Debates over access to government information and scholarly journals took place last week at the membership meeting of the Association of Research Libraries.
College Library Directors Protest 'Scientific American' Price Jump

Many liberal-arts-college librarians are among the signers of a letter to the Nature Publishing Group that says the 2010 price to institutions of the popular magazine is too...

Academic Freedom

AAUP Announces Effort to Shore Up Academic Freedom at Public Colleges

The organization's campaign responds to recent federal-court decisions seen as eroding faculty members' speech rights.
Professors Suspended After a Protest Might Also Face Criminal Charges
Scholars' Right to Keep Unpublished Work Private Is at Issue in Lawsuit

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Curriculum

Despite Success of Some Programs, 3-Year Degrees Draw Skepticism at Meeting

But regardless of what chief academic officers said at the meeting, outside demand for such programs could well drive the creation of more of them.
A Defender of the Liberal Arts Contemplates Their Changing Role

Azar Nafisi, who is working on a book that stands up for the liberal arts, spoke at a meeting of provosts of independent colleges.
Putting Learning Under a Microscope

A new, specially constructed University of Minnesota program in health sciences will test teaching methods and track student success.
- In New Undergraduate Program, a Healthy Synchronicity

Research

The Apes of Wrath

Humans play the part of apes in a production based on Frans de Waal's groundbreaking book Chimpanzee Politics.
Gaps in Immigrants' Education Levels Play Into Canada's Edge Over U.S., Researchers Say

At a gathering of education researchers, two officials discussed why Canada fares better than the United States in international measures of college-going rates.
Colleges Can Benefit by Steering More Aid to the Needy, Studies Suggest

Receiving financial aid appears to improve the educational performance of college students from low-income families, research finds.