Academe Today

Collegiality

‘My Fights Are With My Peers’: When a Professor Gets Banned for Bullying

This scholar at the New School won’t be allowed to attend faculty or committee meetings, or public events where other faculty members’ work is being presented.

Academic Freedom

How Should Colleges Respond to Politics in Letters of Recommendation?

Professors who decline to write such letters for moral or political reasons are often unaware of campus policies to guide them — if they even exist.

Graduate Students

One Way to Be a Better Mentor to Grad Students? Try an Advising Statement

The relationship between advisers and advisees is a crucial one, but the two often have different expectations. A graduate dean has a way to improve communication.

From the Right

Charlie Kirk’s New Book, a Broadside Against Higher Ed, Is Heavy on the Anecdotes

In a scant 160 pages, the founder of Turning Point USA tells a series of stories, not all of them about “the battle on campus.”

From the Archives

Inside a Stealth Plan for Political Influence

Evidence of a conservative group’s influence in student-government campaigns can be found on campuses from coast to coast.

On Leadership

Louisville’s New President Says, ‘It Was a Question of Fit’

Neeli Bendapudi explains why she chose to become president of the University of Louisville, and how she hopes to help it recover from years of scandal.

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The Chronicle Review

Higher Ed, Inc.

How the university became a profit-generating cog in the corporate machine.

Lingua Franca

Got a Minute? How Long It Lasts Depends on Where You Are

Allan Metcalf examines the flexibility of 60 seconds.