Academe Today

Students

A Third of Your Freshmen Disappear. How Can You Keep Them?

Colleges redesign the first-year experience to improve retention, learning outcomes, and students’ sense of belonging.

Commentary

The Best Freshman Year Is a Gap Year

A purposeful year off before college is the best way to ensure that more students arrive on campus prepared to declare both a major and a mission.

Students

The Future of Enrollment: Where Colleges Will Find Their Next Students

What does the future hold for enrollment and admissions? Gain insights into the latest demographics, student migration patterns, and the changing admissions field to prepare your institution for the decade ahead. Buy a copy of our report in the Chronicle Store.

The Chronicle Interview

What Do ‘White Guys’ Think About Race? This Professor Is Trying to Find Out

In more than 100 interviews with students, Nolan L. Cabrera has heard strong beliefs they don’t feel they can share publicly.

Politics

Stanford Historian Encouraged Conservative Students to Gather ‘Opposition Research’ on Liberal Student Leader

Emails obtained by the campus newspaper show that Niall Ferguson, who led a program meant to encourage diverse viewpoints, told the students to engage in a “subtle game” of grinding down their opponents.

Curriculum

U.S. Foreign-Language Enrollments Are Falling. Not at This University.

Money from the Defense Department and cultural foundations has helped the University of North Georgia steadily build up its language programs.

Colleges Need to Prepare for the Future of Learning. Here’s How to Give All Students a Shot at Success.

Campus leaders are under pressure to modernize the educational experience, using technology and learning science to improve results. Our new report on the future of learning can help you innovate. Buy a copy in the Chronicle Store.

Commentary

Can It Really Be True That Half of Academic Papers Are Never Read?

The author documents his quest to find the original source of a surprising “fact” about scholarly publishing.

Lingua Franca

Waiting for Your ‘Joiner’

Anne Curzan muses on a new bit of restaurant jargon that she doesn’t find jargony at all.