Academe Today

The Chronicle Review

The CIA’s Favorite College President

Graham Spanier rolled out the red carpet for the intelligence services to conduct covert operations.

Campus Security

What Berkeley’s $800,000 Did — and Didn’t — Buy During ‘Free Speech Week’

A heavy police presence? Check. Logistics for a Milo Yiannopoulos appearance? Definitely. A sense of security across campus? That’s much harder to come by.

Faculty

They Once Cheated in Class. Now They Teach.

Four instructors spoke to The Chronicle about their experience cheating as students, and how it informs the way they handle academic misconduct.

The Ticker

Purdue’s President Says Free-Speech Policy Forces Him to Defend Faculty Critic

When Mitch Daniels, the university’s leader, was asked about white-supremacist posters found on the Indiana campus, he criticized the professor pressing him on the issue.

The Ticker

Drexel Puts Professor on Leave After Tweet About Las Vegas Draws Conservative Ire

The professor, George Ciccariello-Maher, is no stranger to controversy. But the leave is necessary to ensure campus safety because of the threats he has received, a university spokeswoman said.

How 2 Professors Used Data to Improve Their Courses

One saw a dropout problem in the statistics, and another found a racial disparity in completion rates for a business course.

Getting Faculty Members to Embrace Student Data

Pierce College has improved graduation rates by breaking down student success, course by course.

Advice

Lessons on Productivity

Three books offer different theories and solutions on what helps us get our work done.

Lingua Franca

Our American Poets

When Allan Metcalf was a student in the English department at Berkeley in the 1960s, he learned a lesson about literature that has stayed with him ever since.