Advice

Your Students Learn by Doing, Not by Listening

Yet another example of why we should all be lecturing less and using active-learning strategies more in the college classroom.

Faculty

How to Make Big Classes Feel Small

Students have complained for generations of feeling like nameless specks in a cavernous lecture hall. Faculty members often dread such a sea of blank faces. Now universities are experimenting with ways to liven up those classes.

Teaching

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Race on Campus

American U. Student Sues Neo-Nazi Website Over Online Harassment

Taylor Dumpson, the university’s first black female student-government president, is living in fear after being harassed online, according to her complaint.

Campus Culture

Why a Protester at Chapel Hill Doused a Confederate Monument in Red Ink and Blood

Maya Little, a doctoral student in history at the University of North Carolina, says she wanted to make other people see the statue as she does, crimsoned with the blood of black bodies.

From the Archives

Chapel Hill’s New Civil War

A monument to the Confederacy known as Silent Sam stands at the main entrance of the University of North Carolina. It’s ripping the campus apart. So what’s keeping it there?

Chief Executives

Is College President ‘the Toughest Job in the Nation’?

The departing chancellor of the University of Texas system says it is. Here are a few things to remember.

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

Want Your Endowment to Grow? Try Diversifying Your Investment Team

Increasing the number of women and minority collegiate asset managers isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s the smart thing.

Lingua Franca

The Cross-Lingual Interse(x)tionality of ‘Latinx’

Situated in new circumstances, languages change radically, says Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera.