Academe Today

Enrollment

Mizzou’s Freshman Class Shrank by a Third Over 2 Years. Here’s How It’s Trying to Turn That Around.

Publicity about racial unrest on the campus in 2015 prompted a decline in enrollment. The university’s leaders had to act fast.

From the Archives

Being Melissa Click

Is the former Missouri professor an out-of-control activist? A poster child for academic freedom? Or something else?

From the Archives

Why Students Are Leaving Illinois in Droves — and Why It Matters

Many have blamed the student exodus on a bruising, two-year budget stalemate. But the real story of Illinois’s enrollment struggle goes back decades.

Law Enforcement

Michigan State U. Employee Is Charged With Bestiality

The Michigan attorney general’s office on Monday charged a health physicist at the university with two counts of sodomy.

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

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The Chronicle Review

Why Professors Distrust Beauty

A shift from the ascetic to the aesthetic is underway. At its center: evolutionary biology.

Advice

How to Survive a Media Blitz: an Academic’s Guide

You can’t dictate who will write about you or what they will say, but you can influence both.

Lingua Franca

Phoneme Husbandry in Delaware County, Pa.

After 25 years in Swahthmore, Ben Yagoda gets a handle on how people talk where he lives.