Academe Today

How to Make Strategic Big Bets

College leaders searching for transformative change must avoid letting ambition — or caution — imperil their institution.

Professors Can Help Make a Project Fly

One way to obtain buy-in from wary faculty members is to highlight how a project would improve teaching and learning.

Tips for Turning a Big Idea Into a Successful Strategic Initiative

Thousands of details and endless meetings are involved in any new program or construction project. But some principles can help keep a strategic initiative manageable.

Data

Top Producers of Fulbright Scholars and Students, 2016-17

Nine bachelor's-degree colleges had at least 10 students who won a Fulbright award for the 2016-17 academic year.

Science

Job-Killing Computerization Sets Its Sights on the University Researcher

At this past weekend’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, scientists also heard broader warnings about the threats to American workers posed by computerized automation.

The Ticker

Grad Student Finds Lost Novel by Walt Whitman That Hints at 'Leaves of Grass'

The tale was published anonymously in an obscure New York newspaper in 1852, before the writer won fame for his poetry.

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Commentary

Colleges Can Help Students Move Up. Let’s Make It Easier.

With the support of state and federal policy makers, more institutions can push more low-income students into the middle class.

The Chronicle Review

How a New Field Could Help Save the Humanities

A cohesive history of the humanities would complement the history of science.

Lingua Franca

How Dangerous Are Danglers?

Anne Curzan evaluates the common advice about avoiding dangling participles in writing.

First Person

Maybe You’re Just a Jealous Academic

In the increasingly volatile industry that is academe, you aren’t alone in your envy.