Academe Today

Why We Need a More Activist Academy

Impartiality bolsters a dangerous status quo.

Off-Campus Bias

10 Black Washington U. Students Say They Were Racially Profiled by Local Cops. Now What?

The students, attending an orientation for new freshmen, were stopped after leaving a local IHOP and wrongly accused of not paying for their meals.

Play for Pay

Student Debt Gets the Game-Show Treatment. Who Wins?

The program bills itself as a solution to the student-loan crisis, but experts fear it’s got the wrong answers.

Leadership

After 10 Years at the Helm, the U. of Colorado’s President Will Retire

Bruce Benson, an oil tycoon and prominent Republican, won over some of his campus critics by becoming a fiscally savvy advocate for the university.

Inclusion

A College Administrator Told ‘The New York Times,’ Rap Is Not ‘Real Music.’ His President Called the Comment Disappointing.

“People in rural New York, we are not people who respond to this part of American culture,” the director of the Benjamin Center at SUNY at New Paltz told the newspaper. That prompted a quick reaction from his university.

Starter Kit: New to the Department Chair

Many professors are ill-prepared to become chair of a department. This Starter Kit offers lessons and tips from experienced department heads and other administrators on what it takes to make the transition.

The Chronicle Review

Elite Colleges Have No Monopoly on the Liberal Arts

This polarizing vision of higher education serves politicians and profiteers, not students.

Lingua Franca

Gesamtkunstwerk

Heading to Bayreuth, Bill Germano reflects on the term total work of art, made famous by Wagner and his ambition to combine all the arts into one. And what do Siegried and SKAM Austin have in common?