Academe Today

Advice

We Reversed Our Declining English Enrollments. Here’s How.

Humanities courses have plenty to offer every student: We simply need to get our best faculty members on the job.

From the Archives

How One University Made Its Introductory Courses Extraordinary

Intro classes, always ripe for reinvention, benefit from a new emphasis on creative teaching at College Park.

The Chronicle Review

The Hardest Course in the Humanities?

The key to attracting students is challenging them.

Students

Howard U. Sit-In Could Be the Start of Something Bigger

As a student protest enters its fifth day, organizers are urging students at other historically black colleges to take action too.

The Chronicle Interview

How to Promote Enlightened Debate Online

Frustrated at the lack of reasoned discussion, the son of two philosophers created his own platform. Now some professors are using it to show students how to weigh the merits of arguments.

Curriculum

Students Want Faster Degrees. Colleges Are Responding.

Accelerated programs appeal to frugal families, to adults making a career change, and to students focused on specialized training. But for these programs to succeed, colleges have to market them.

Faculty

4 Years for a Bachelor’s? Who’s Got the Time?

Colleges are increasingly offering three-year B.A.s and other accelerated programs in response to a growing market of money-conscious go-getters and career changers.

The Daily Briefing

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

The Chronicle Review

How #MeToo Will Change the Way Colleges Choose Presidents

The era of secret searches is about to end.

Lingua Franca

Anne Curzan Gets April Fooled

A joke about a language puzzle reminds the linguist how people’s love of play with language — think boob tube or chill pill — informs her teaching strategies. Read some of them here.