| Finance By Jack Stripling How the wooing of students, and the cultivation of their desires, shifts the priorities and the role of the modern university. |
| From the Archives By Karin Fischer and Jack Stripling A tale of erosion, seen through six people in the trenches. |
| Faculty By Audrey Williams June 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 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. |
| By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz and Andy Thomason The Daily Briefing tells individual subscribers everything they need to know about higher ed. Here’s a sample. |
| The Chronicle Review By John Krige It’s unavoidable due to the commercialization of research and the expansion of enrollment to include thousands of students from China. |
| Advice By Karen Kelsky Too many tenure narratives veer wildly between paroxysms of grandiosity and groveling insecurity. |
| Lingua Franca Allan Metcalf takes a desktop trip to the mountains of West Virginia and vicinity, where a wondrous new website has opened for business â and itâs free. |
