Teaching
How Students Can Improve by Studying Themselves
A teaching experiment at the City University of New York demonstrates that failing students can learn to succeed in courses that break down their faulty study habits.
Special Report: The Profit Motive
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For-Profit Colleges Change Higher Education's Landscape
No longer a sideshow, the sector has expanded faster than traditional colleges over the past three decades.
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Audio: Tales From the For-Profit Sector
Robin Wilson, a Chronicle reporter, shares details and stories from her recent reporting on the for-profit world with Brad Wolverton, a Chronicle editor. (Play below.)
Thomas H. Benton: The Big Lie
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The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind'
Most departments will never willingly provide information on graduate-student attrition, debt, and placement.
- Letters About 'Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go'
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Women, Birth, Death, and Mathematics
Female mathematicians' careers may be more nonlinear than those of their male counterparts, says Susan D'Agostino. That's how it should be.
- Economists Eye Identity
- Well, Naturally We're Liberal
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Design for Disability Will Become the Norm
Live Chat
Innovators in Internationalization:
Join Melanie McCallon and Bonnie S. Higginson of Murray State University for a live chat on Friday, February 12, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time.
They will discuss how the university has managed a boom in faculty-led study-abroad programs, including mandatory training and extensive administrative support.
Chronicle Blogs
In the News
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Scholars Try to Piece Together What's Best Done With the Dead Sea Scrolls
The acquisition of valuable fragments by two American seminaries has some scholars wondering whether the benefits of such purchases are worth the costs.
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Dartmouth Resumes Layoffs and Loans in Face of $100-Million Budget Gap
The college is the second to curtail a no-loan student-aid policy in the wake of endowment losses.
- And the Academy Award Goes to ... a Computer Scientist
- Audio: In a Washington Minute -- Obama Moves to End a Bush-Era Grant Program
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Move Over, Schrödinger's Cat: or, Thinking Like a Dog to Understand Physics
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How a Scholarship Corporation Tried to Muzzle a Blogger
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Tufts U.'s President Will Step Down to Return to Teaching
- Coalition Seeks Better Conditions for Those Off the Tenure Track
- Recession Affected Students' Financial Attitudes and Behaviors
- Number of 'Hispanic Serving' Colleges Is Expected to Grow Significantly, Report Says
More News
The Ticker
- United Arab Emirates U. May Cut Jobs to Spend More on Research
- Judge Allows Licensing Lawsuit Against NCAA to Proceed
- Students Arrested at UC-Irvine After Protest of Israeli Ambassador's Speech
- Professor's Alleged Religious and Anti-Gay Remarks Draw Letter From ACLU
- Canada Cuts Off Federal Funds for Its Only Aboriginal-Run University
Wired Campus
- Class Produces Parody of 'The Office' to Highlight Challenges of Teaching With Technology
- New Web Site Lists Free Online Textbooks
- Furloughed From San Diego State U., CIO Flies Relief Missions to Haiti
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