Alaska regents delay vote on financial exigency; a chart enables presidential-faculty pay comparisons; a proverb scholar's books get a home; and more.
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Innovation
By Alina Tugend

Colleges are under pressure to be more efficient — and some have been recognized for making strides. But they probably won’t brag about it. (PREMIUM)

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Crisis in Alaska
By Katherine Mangan

Overwhelmed by the challenges of slashing so deeply, regents cling to faint hopes that some money will be restored.

Finance

How a governor’s vetoes fostered a financial crisis on the campuses of the Last Frontier.

Leadership
By Dan Bauman, Tyler Davis, and Brian O’Leary

This chart enables comparisons of presidents’ total compensation or base salary with characteristics of the institutions they lead, including expenditures, average professor salaries, and tuition and fees.

Leadership
By Dan Bauman, Tyler Davis, and Brian O’Leary

The Chronicle’s newly updated executive-compensation report includes the latest salary information, plus years of data, about chief executives at more than 250 public universities and systems and more than 600 private colleges.

Publishing
By Alexander C. Kafka

Two historians aim to make amends for discussing a junior scholar’s forthcoming book without crediting her in a radio segment. (PREMIUM)

Faculty
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By Emma Pettit

The professor needed a place to store his collection. His university’s newly renovated library needed books to fill its shelves. Moving the collection killed two birds with one stone.

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Advice
By Joe P. Dunn

A health crisis introduces a faculty member to every impediment to mobility on his campus.

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