Academe Today

You’re Not Just Leaving Academe, You’re Leaving Your Students

The permanent departure of a faculty member, contingent or otherwise, has real implications for undergraduates.

Student Aid

New Evidence Adds to Troubling Picture for Black Borrowers of Student Loans

Analyses show that at both graduate and undergraduate levels, the debt burden has grown significantly greater for black students.

Technology

What a Controversy Over an App Tells Us About How Students Learn Now

Texas Christian University students were accused of academic misconduct. But the episode may say even more about professors’ teaching and assessment.

Special Reports

Colleges Need to Prepare for the Future of Learning. Here’s How to Give All Students a Shot at Success.

Campus leaders are under pressure to modernize the educational experience, using technology and learning science to improve results. Our new report on the future of learning can help you innovate. Buy a copy in the Chronicle Store.

Finance

UMass-Boston Faculty Votes No Confidence in System’s Leaders Over Purchase of Small College

The Faculty Council said the acquisition of the shuttered Mount Ida College unfairly favored the flagship campus, in Amherst, over Boston.

Special Reports

Speed, Convenience, Affordability: Why Modular Construction Is Catching On

Colleges build for the ages, usually with heavy stone structures that sit in place for decades. A different kind of construction can save time and money.

Idea Lab: Deans and Fund Raising

For current and would-be deans, raising money is a tough skill to master. And with colleges increasingly reliant on private donors, more administrators are expected to be good at it. This collection of articles from Idea Lab, our section on helping college leaders solve problems, offers insight for both new and experienced deans on how to ask for money and cultivate donors. Buy your copy in the Chronicle Store.

Commentary

How George Mason Will Take the Controversy Out of Its Gift Agreements

The university’s president says he’ll make transparency the norm when George Mason accepts money from private donors, including controversial ones like the Charles Koch Foundation.

Commentary

Hosting a Homeless Encampment Changed Our University

For three months, Seattle Pacific University welcomed people who are homeless to the campus. Here’s what professors and students learned.

Lingua Franca

Sports-Catchphrase Bingo: Play It Here.

Starting at midnight, May 15, if you read or hear three sports-originating metaphors that form a line on the card Ben Yagoda has crafted, that's BINGO! List the quotes and sources in the comments section of this post.