Campus Conflict

The Battle Is Over. How Can Presidents and Faculty Members Mend Fences?

A unionization push, a controversial hiring, or personality clashes can shatter relationships. But empathy, trust, and concerted effort can go a long way toward reconciliation.

Faculty

Auburn Is Hiring 500 Tenure-Track Faculty Members. Here’s What That Means.

The university’s new president will invest more than $100 million in the hires. But the actual number of new positions is closer to 100.

Teaching

Can a Class Actually Be Too Small?

A professor explains why it’s hard to teach when he has fewer than seven students.

Students

3 Key Takeaways From New Federal Data on Campus Crime

Reports of forcible sex offenses more than tripled from 2001 to 2015, an annual study finds.

re:Learning at SXSWedu

Make Your Institution More than a College, This President Says. Make It a Movement.

Colleges need to respond to the challenges around them, says Michael J. Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College, which has set its sights on ending poverty. “When you know where your students are coming from,” he says, “it affects you.”

The Adult Student: The Population Colleges — and the Nation — Can’t Afford to Ignore

America’s adult students have long been an afterthought in higher education. But demographic changes and economic pressures will soon require institutions to expand their horizons. This Chronicle report explores the growing imperative for colleges to support the adult-student movement.

Commentary

Back to the Future at Stevens Point

A controversial realignment of the curriculum on the Wisconsin campus harks back to the roots and mission of this and other regional public universities.

Advice

The Professor Is In: Should I Turn Down a Tenure-Track Position?

A job candidate wonders how to decide which of two offers to accept when both have drawbacks.

Lingua Franca

Unqualified Lesbians and Ambiguous Adjectives

Geoff Pullum analyzes the subtle semantic underpinning of Cynthia Nixon’s amusing “unqualified lesbian” quip.