Academe Today

Leadership

No One Wants to Be Your Dean. Here’s How You Might Fix That.

Fill the pipeline and get talented prospects ready by adopting these strategies.

Advice

How to Be Both a Professor and a Dean

Administrators who hold on to their faculty roots will benefit both themselves and their institutions.

Administration

How to Be a Dean

Academic deans are expected now more than ever to push their schools to evolve. Here’s how they handle all the demands on them.

Students

Syracuse Reels as Second Offensive Video Is Published of Now-Expelled Fraternity

The new video shows members pretending to sexually assault a disabled person. The university's chancellor, Kent Syverud, said the university would conduct a "top to bottom" review of its Greek system.

On Leadership

How Can Sweet Briar Survive?

Meredith Woo, president of Sweet Briar College, talks about what it will take for the Virginia institution to survive and grow just a few years after it nearly shut down.

Facilities

Wisconsin Won’t Remove Names of KKK Affiliates From Buildings. It Will Build a $1-Million Museum Instead.

The Madison campus must confront a history “in which exclusion and indignity were routine, sanctioned in the institution’s daily life, and unchallenged by its leaders,” a new report concludes.

The Chronicle Interview

Meet the Professor Who’s Warning the World About Facebook and Google

Zeynep Tufekci describes how she tries to fit teaching, tweeting, op-eds, and TED talks into a 24-hour day.

Starter Kit: New to the Faculty

Are you an assistant professor new to the job? A department chair who wants to help freshmen on the faculty in their dizzying first year? Chronicle editors have compiled a collection of essays, by experienced professors, with advice for new faculty members. Buy your copy in the Chronicle store.

The Chronicle Review

The University Has No Purpose

And that’s a good thing.

Advice

3 Ways Colleges Can Help Faculty Members Avoid Burnout

If institutions hope to flourish, it’s in their interest to make sure their professors flourish, too.

Special Reports

What I Learned When My Students Used Google Translate

It wasn’t pretty.

Lingua Franca

The Language of Defenses

Anne Curzan reflects on her experience as a faculty opponent for a thesis defense, and in particular the connotations of the word “opponent.”