Wanted: Assistant Professors
The Long Odds of the Faculty Job Search
The Chronicle looks at the applicant pool for two positions in the humanities, where the competition is stiff and the chances are slim.
Learn who got the jobs, who were the finalists, and who else was in the pool.
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Wanted: Assistant Professors
The Long Odds of the Faculty Job Search
The Chronicle looks at the applicant pool for two positions in the humanities, where the competition is stiff and the chances are slim.
Learn who got the jobs, who were the finalists, and who else was in the pool.
Interactive
Play the Role of the Search Committee >>
Whom would you pick?
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Presidential Pay
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What They Make
Use The Chronicle's exclusive tool to explore the salaries of chief executives at 191 research institutions—and to get a sense of what the numbers mean.
- The Million-Dollar Men
- Penn State's Farewell Payout to Spanier Made Him Best-Paid Public-College President
- For Many Public-College Presidents, Homes Don't Count in Pay Packages
Wanted: Assistant Professors
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The Long Odds of the Tenure-Track Job Search
The Chronicle looks at the applications submitted for two positions in the humanities, where the competition is stiff and candidates are often in the dark.
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You're Hired
Learn who got the jobs, who were the finalists, and who else was in the pool.
- Play the Role of the Search Committee
AAUP Salary Survey, 2012-13
Faculty Pay Inches Up
Annual pay averages $84,000; the increase just matches inflation. Not all of the numbers are heartening, though.
Interactive: Salary Profiles
The Value of a College Education
What's the Real Payoff of a College Degree?
In thinking of return on investment, dollars and cents ought to be taken into account, but not to the exclusion of other things that matter.
Presidents' Forum: What Is College For?
Your Education. Your Investment.
Introducing College Reality Check
This new Web site from The Chronicle is designed to help students and parents make more-informed choices about college.
The Idea Makers
These thinkers are shaking up campuses with some of the biggest ideas in technology.
Meet the Innovators
Bethany Nowviskie: The Age of 'Coder-Scholars'
Amy Laitinen: Moving Beyond the Credit Hour
Juan E. Gilbert: The Diversity Algorithm
The MOOC Universe
From the Blogs
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Grammar to the Rescue
Geoff Pullum reflects on subordinate clauses, essay questions, teacher training, and an interesting experiment at a high school on Staten Island.
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The Never-Ending War Over a Gun Statistic
A single number has provoked a dispute for nearly two decades between two researchers who don’t respect each other very much.
Dust-Up at Dartmouth
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Dartmouth College Calls a Timeout After Student Protest Draws Hostile Reactions
All classes in the arts and sciences have been canceled for Wednesday after a backlash against student protesters that included violent threats.
RIP Chinua Achebe
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Coming Together
On the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe reflects on his intentions and his influence.
- Five Views of 'Things Fall Apart'
- Chinua Achebe, Renowned Author and Professor, Dies at 82
In Debt to a Degree
'I Fully Expect to Die With This Debt'
Student-loan debt is growing more quickly among people age 60 and older than in any other age group.
Readers Respond:
Related: The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps
Online Learning: a Special Report
Join us for an inside look at MOOC mania -- the hype, the hope -- and what it means for the future of higher education.
College, Reinvented
In a special report, Chronicle writers and contributors suggested 15 ways to reinvent higher education.
Careers in Academe
In this special report, we offer articles written by academics, for academics, about a range of career challenges in academe.
