Academe Today

Graduate Students

Training Graduate Students to Be Effective Teachers

More colleges are making it a priority to teach future faculty members how to teach.

Teaching

Teaching the Art of the Difficult Classroom Conversation

Today’s minefield of political and social issues requires even the most experienced educators to step carefully.

Commentary

Award-Winning Teachers Reflect on Their Training

Faculty members tell us what they wished they had learned or are grateful they did learn about teaching when they were doctoral students.

Special Reports

Idea Lab: Colleges Solving Problems

A collection of more than two dozen explorations of the problems colleges face, and how they are solving them. The articles include news, analysis, data, advice, and opinion.

Facilities

What’s New in Freshmen Housing? Buildings That Help Students Make Friends

As colleges tailor residences to the needs of first-year students, architects find that what works best isn’t what students say they want.

The Ticker

Northwestern Professor and Oxford Worker, Sought in Killing, Are Taken Into Custody

Wyndham Lathem, an associate professor at Northwestern, and Andrew Warren, an employee of the University of Oxford, are accused in the murder of a 26-year-old man.

Chronicle Focus

In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are more than 25. Here are a couple of examples:

Confronting History on Campus

Students, campus officials, and historians are all asking, What’s in a name? Especially when the name is Woodrow Wilson, John Calhoun, or Jefferson Davis. The 10 articles in this collection examine how universities are trying to resolve complaints about buildings and statues named for leaders associated with harmful acts.

What You Need to Know About Learning Analytics

The advent of online learning has made it possible to track an individual student’s path toward mastering course content. The seven articles in this guide consider how the data being collected can be tapped to improve teaching.

Advice

Our Academic Book Tour

Listen, we need to talk. And talk. And talk.

The Chronicle Review

Stop Blaming Postmodernism for Post-Truth Politics

Postmodern thought didn’t give us “post-truth.” Indeed, it can help us fight that plague.

Lingua Franca

Lollapalooza: a Modern Sockdolager

Allan Metcalf recalls some big words made in America, some for bloviating politicians and another for a summer rock festival in Chicago.