Academe Today

Graduate Students

Getting Minority Ph.D. Students to the Finish Line

Formal mentoring programs like those at two universities in Iowa aim to diversify the professoriate, especially in the sciences and mathematics.

Finance

Is Tuition Discounting Leading Some Colleges Off a Cliff?

Small private colleges stand to lose both money and student diversity in continually seeking to outbid each other for students, a new study warns.

Faculty

If You Want Happier Professors, Try Being Nice

A study of newly tenured professors finds their job satisfaction hinges much more on day-to-day interactions than on organizational efforts to change the workplace.

Research

The Unheralded Mettle of For-Profit College Students

A study of people who recently attended for-profit colleges finds them to be much more capable and confident than stereotypes suggest.

The Chronicle Review

A Political Theorist Joins the Resistance

Can Yascha Mounk save liberal democracy?

Chronicle Focus

In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are nearly 25. Here are a couple of examples.

The Faculty-Retirement Conundrum

Professors may want to retire, but they also have jobs they love and don’t want to give up. Articles in this 36-page collection examine ways that administrators can make faculty members’ paths into retirement easier.

How Students Cheat in a High-Tech World

Cheating has become increasingly complex, with students in the United States going online to find surrogates in other countries to do their work for them. This collection of nine articles prepares educators for new challenges in stemming a tide of deception.

Advice

The Best Executive-Job Candidates

If you find it difficult to be transparent, then you probably shouldn’t be applying for the position.

Commentary

How to Be an Ally to New Minority Scholars

If minority professors are going to be effectively recruited, developed, and retained, white faculty members must become more deliberate and effective cross-race mentors.

Commentary

There’s a Reason the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Sounds Too Good to Be True

The public university is giving a long list of rights and privileges to its new partner, a firm answerable to Wall Street investors.

The Chronicle Review

Contradictions of Capital

As economists explain in a new collection of essays, there is nothing inexorable about Thomas Piketty’s conclusions.

Lingua Franca

Who Really Said That?

Quotations: just one word after another. But who first strung those particular words together? A website tells those tales, writes Lucy Ferriss, who also shares one of her own.