Academe Today

Labor & Work-Life Issues

What Factors Hold Back the Careers of Women and Faculty of Color? Columbia U. Went Looking for Answers

The university has released detailed data on how salary, workload, work-life balance, and climate issues affect scholars’ experience on campus.

The Chronicle Review

What It’s Like to Be a Woman in the Academy

We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.

Admissions

How Harvard’s Admissions Office Courts Donors and Low-Income Students

The third day of testimony in a trial challenging the university’s admissions policies revealed new details about the once-secretive process. Harvard has been accused of discriminating against Asian-American applicants.

From the Archives

In Admissions, the Powerful Weigh In

College leaders test the boundaries when it comes to influencing decisions, a Chronicle investigation shows.

Graduate Students

Disenchanted Ph.D. Recipients, Take Solace: It Gets Better, New Research Suggests

Despite complaints that doctorates aren’t worth it nowadays, over time graduates say their programs prepared them well for their jobs, whether academic or nonacademic.

Faculty

U. of Southern Maine Pulls Course That Gave Students Credit for Protesting Against Kavanaugh

The one-credit course, which bused students to Washington, D.C., was offered by a retired economics professor who has now been banned from teaching.

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Commentary

College Leaders, It’s Your Duty to Get Students to Vote. Here’s How.

It’s a two-step process that starts in the classroom and winds up being embedded in the campus culture.

Lingua Franca

‘Smarmy’: How It Was Born and Survived

The adjective was invented as a joke, Ben Yagoda has discovered. Has it lasted more than 100 years because of that unceremonious origin? Or in spite of it?