Academe Today

Reinventing the Career Center

Today’s students expect more help finding a job than ever before. Colleges — and companies — are trying to help them design their futures.

Colleges Must Transform Career Counseling

Higher education must show students how to adapt to the fast-evolving 21st-century economy before outside ventures step in and do it for them. Here’s where to start.

How Colleges Can Do Better at Helping Students Get Jobs

Examples from innovative colleges suggest that one key step in improving career prospects is for colleges and employers to collaborate in deeper ways.

Read More From a Special Report on Innovation

Nervousness over the economy and questions about the value of a college degree have contributed to growing expectations that colleges must make career services a priority. This special report on innovation examines some of the career-counseling efforts underway — by colleges, start-ups, and collaborations between the two. See the entire issue here. 

The Ticker

Faculty Strike Ends in Settlement at Pennsylvania's State-Owned Colleges

Union members, who had worked without a contract for more than a year, made concessions to reach a deal.

Administration

William Bowen, Influential Higher-Ed Thinker and President of Princeton and Mellon, Dies at 83

The former head of a top university and leading foundation in the arts also was a powerful thinker on a range of academic issues, including affirmative action, athletics priorities, and technological change.

Commentary

The Lasting Impact of William Bowen

His influence on higher education reached far and wide. But in his later years, his work on two of his great interests — why students drop out, and how well educational technology works — cast an especially long shadow.

Administration

William Bowen on Higher Education

He was a higher-education economist who published a series of important books and reports on the challenges facing colleges. He also wrote frequently for The Chronicle. Here's a selection.

Lingua Franca

Bye-Bye, Cursive

Lucy Ferriss, perusing The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, by Anne Trubek, considers Socrates, Robert Durst, and her colleague's requirement that students write a paper by hand.

Page Proof

Resisting the Urge to Profess

Carrying on at length, about anything, is an occupational hazard in academe.

Vitae

'Dear Forums ...': How Do I Create a Hiring Rubric?

Also in our weekly roundup of the best conversations from The Chronicle's discussion forums: good extra-credit options for students and fair pay for department chairs.