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The Chronicle Review

‘The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril’

Jill Lepore on writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.

The Higher-Ed Factor

Amazon’s New Headquarters Is Coming to Northern Virginia. Here’s How Local Colleges Helped Make That Happen.

A “highly educated labor pool” was among the tech giant’s top criteria, and universities say they will deliver the talent.

Viral Video

U. of Texas at San Antonio Investigates After Students Say Lecturer Called Police on Black Classmate

The university is questioning a biology lecturer who allegedly called the campus police to remove a student from her classroom after the student rested her feet on a seat.

Publishing

Will Blockchain Revolutionize Scholarly Journal Publishing?

A European start-up thinks the technology will bring a new era of speed, cost reduction, and transparency. Skeptics aren’t so sure and point to a history of failed would-be disruptors.

Advice

So You Want to Be a Dean?

Three traits are essential to becoming an academic dean, and four key elements are needed to make a deanship run smoothly. In this Two-Minute Tips video, Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz gives you tips for becoming a new dean.

Two-Minute Tips

Short videos to help you excel in the academic workplace.

Re:Learning

Colleges Are Taking Adult Students’ Needs More Seriously. What’s the Next Step?

There’s plenty more room for improvement, but here’s one idea: making it easier for students who owe money to their old colleges to get transcripts and credit for their work.

Idea Lab: Faculty Diversity

Colleges face growing demands to hire more minority faculty members. But doing so requires revamping how search committees usually operate, confronting unconscious bias, and improving the Ph.D. pipeline. This collection examines how colleges are changing to bolster their faculty ranks with more people from underrepresented minority groups. Get your copy in the Chronicle store.

Commentary

Enough With All the Innovation

Even if the growing number of centers and incubators actually worked, is this the direction we want higher education to go?

Lingua Franca

Here’s Where I Make Like a Regular William Safire

Inspired by a line from Allan Sherman, Ben Yagoda investigates phrases like a regular Romeo and discovers their origin is not in Jewish-American culture. And what does a regular coffee mean to you?