Academe Today

The New, Improved Orientation

Colleges try to ensure that crucial lessons on sex assault, racial diversity, and other issues take hold.

Revamping Orientation for Parents

The University of Oregon tries to get moms and dads to talk with their kids about tough issues.

Colleges Go Online to Help Orient Nontraditional Students

A different type of orientation is needed for those who are older and have more family responsibilities.

Crowdsourcing

We’re Tracking Confederate Monuments. Tell Us What’s on Your Campus.

The Chronicle has compiled a list of Confederate monuments erected on college campuses in the decades following the Civil War. Fill out the form here to let us know about anything we’ve missed.

The Ticker

UNC Says It Can’t Legally Remove Confederate Statue, Despite Governor’s Guidance

A law signed by a previous governor says a historical commission must give permission for monuments on state property to be altered.

The Chronicle Interview

From a Liberal-Arts College to a ‘Monument to the Best of Human Civilization’

Before Daniel Weiss ran the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he was a college president. What does he know now that he wished he knew then?

Advice

So You Want to Work at a Teaching College?

There’s a lot more that your graduate program could be doing to prepare you.

Vitae

Job-Market Diaries: A Religious Studies Professor

Part 6 in a series featuring new faculty members talking about their job search.

Lingua Franca

Plain Talk About Public Murder

Geoff Pullum asks: Why should some perpetrators of random mass murder be accorded the honor of promotion to a higher grade of homicide bearing the “terror” tag?