Academe Today

Finance

The Lure of the Lazy River

How the wooing of students, and the cultivation of their desires, shifts the priorities and the role of the modern university.

From the Archives

Public Colleges Were Crowded Out, Beaten Up, and Failed to Fight Back

A tale of erosion, seen through six people in the trenches.

Faculty

The Many Paths of the Would-Be Professoriate

A national program seeks to prepare the faculty members of tomorrow. About half of the recent participants at Duke University have become professors, for reasons that reflect personal choice, social forces, and quirks of fate.

The Ticker

Governor Declares Emergency Tied to White Nationalist’s Planned Speech at U. of Florida

The order is meant to make it easier to mobilize law-enforcement agencies for the event. The university has said it will incur at least $500,000 in security costs.

The Daily Briefing

The Daily Briefing tells individual subscribers everything they need to know about higher ed. Here’s a sample.

The Chronicle Review

Why the FBI Is on Your Campus

It’s unavoidable due to the commercialization of research and the expansion of enrollment to include thousands of students from China.

Advice

The Professor Is In: 4 Steps to a Strong Tenure File

Too many tenure narratives veer wildly between paroxysms of grandiosity and groveling insecurity.

Lingua Franca

Appalachian English

Allan Metcalf takes a desktop trip to the mountains of West Virginia and vicinity, where a wondrous new website has opened for business — and it’s free.