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Opinion | An emphasis on teaching and the business of publishing may help save struggling university presses. https://chroni.cl/4pxj344
Opinion | Can We Save the Small University Press?
Closures and cutbacks loom, but there’s still time for innovation.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Opinion | An emphasis on teaching and the business of publishing may help save struggling university presses. https://chroni.cl/4pxj344
In Advice | Six tips for chairs of large departments on how to cope with the meeting-heavy schedule that goes hand in hand with supervising a large faculty and staff. https://chroni.cl/4iiR6dB
Advice | How to Chair a Large Department
It’s crucial for heads of big departments to learn how to manage a meeting-heavy schedule.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In Advice | Six tips for chairs of large departments on how to cope with the meeting-heavy schedule that goes hand in hand with supervising a large faculty and staff. https://chroni.cl/4iiR6dB
Portland State laid off 17 faculty members last June. An arbitrator says it must rehire the 10 who challenged the layoffs. https://chroni.cl/4rgAMOz
A University Gets Dinged for Failing to Involve Faculty in Budget-Cut Talks
An arbitrator says Portland State must reinstate 10 faculty members who were laid off.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Portland State laid off 17 faculty members last June. An arbitrator says it must rehire the 10 who challenged the layoffs. https://chroni.cl/4rgAMOz
Of the various controversies Larry Summers has been involved in over the years, it’s his connection with Jeffrey Epstein that may end up bringing his career to a close. https://chroni.cl/3XfdFXa
Is This the End for Larry Summers at Harvard?
Revelations about the former university president’s long entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein, the sexual predator, could finally sink the economist who seemed to have nine lives.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Of the various controversies Larry Summers has been involved in over the years, it’s his connection with Jeffrey Epstein that may end up bringing his career to a close. https://chroni.cl/3XfdFXa
One of the Harvard report’s most compelling findings is that students almost universally speak about grades in terms of how much effort they put in. If they spend a lot of time studying and do all of the work asked of them, they believe, they should get an A. https://chroni.cl/4iiaoA3
Grading Is Broken
A growing number of professors say A’s have lost their meaning. They’re divided on the right solution.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
One of the Harvard report’s most compelling findings is that students almost universally speak about grades in terms of how much effort they put in. If they spend a lot of time studying and do all of the work asked of them, they believe, they should get an A. https://chroni.cl/4iiaoA3
What can an instructor do when students aren’t doing the work? Here’s how one instructor got her class back. https://chroni.cl/4p3n2p1
The Human Work of Teaching and Learning
One professor’s story of bringing a class back from the brink in 2019 is only more resonant now.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
What can an instructor do when students aren’t doing the work? Here’s how one instructor got her class back. https://chroni.cl/4p3n2p1
Opinion | "We are in a crisis of status, we humanists, and in the large scope of the public, we can, the thinking goes, be restored." https://chroni.cl/4p0fVhg
Opinion | Writing for ‘the Public’ Won’t Save Us
We created new venues to affirm our value. Now they’re at risk of collapsing too.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Opinion | "We are in a crisis of status, we humanists, and in the large scope of the public, we can, the thinking goes, be restored." https://chroni.cl/4p0fVhg
The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of its members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands. https://chroni.cl/48bvwmK
Why a Musicology Society’s Members Are in Revolt
The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of its members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands. https://chroni.cl/48bvwmK
Looming large are questions about whether a UVa's new leader will be expected to support — or denounce — diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. https://chroni.cl/4o8FThe
As UVa Reels From Jim Ryan’s Tell-All, Political Turmoil Hampers the Search to Replace Him
Looming large are questions about whether a new leader will be expected to support — or denounce — diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Looming large are questions about whether a UVa's new leader will be expected to support — or denounce — diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. https://chroni.cl/4o8FThe
Is the university of the future a series of disciplinary groupings or area studies? Maybe undergraduate programs and research initiatives should be designed to tackle problems, and not imagined to be permanent. https://chroni.cl/4rebAbE
A Planned Shake-Up at Montclair State U. Raises a Question: What Is a Department for?
The administration says its plan to reorganize 15 departments into four schools will foster interdisciplinarity and make academic fields more relevant. Faculty members aren’t so sure.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Is the university of the future a series of disciplinary groupings or area studies? Maybe undergraduate programs and research initiatives should be designed to tackle problems, and not imagined to be permanent. https://chroni.cl/4rebAbE
Opinion | Catch up on interviews with Jill Lepore and G. Gordon Gee. https://chroni.cl/3LRpK2c
Jill Lepore Considers Quitting. The Woke Right. Red-State Academic-Freedom Blues.
Plus: Virginia on the front lines.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Opinion | Catch up on interviews with Jill Lepore and G. Gordon Gee. https://chroni.cl/3LRpK2c
After declines in new international students for two years in a row, the post-Covid enrollment boom looks, in hindsight, like a bubble. https://chroni.cl/49Ni1ML
A Foreign-Enrollment Downturn Isn’t Coming. It’s Already Here.
Also, the State Department takes over Fulbright-Hays and other international-ed programs, and more from the “Open Doors” report.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
After declines in new international students for two years in a row, the post-Covid enrollment boom looks, in hindsight, like a bubble. https://chroni.cl/49Ni1ML
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville was told to hand over course materials and names of scholarship recipients from its Middle East studies department, raising concerns about political pressure and interference. https://chroni.cl/4ib24BR
A State Legislature Wants a University’s Middle East Studies Syllabi. Faculty Don’t Know Why.
The University of Arkansas flagship received a request from a legislative office last week for course materials and information about scholarships, emails show.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville was told to hand over course materials and names of scholarship recipients from its Middle East studies department, raising concerns about political pressure and interference. https://chroni.cl/4ib24BR
About three years after ChatGPT emerged, students are using artificial intelligence to help with outlining, brainstorming, and studying. In this week's episode of College Matters from The Chronicle, we examine how colleges can weight the promise of AI against its pitfalls. https://chroni.cl/47UcJO8
Using AI Without (Really) Cheating
There’s plenty of moral panic about college students using generative AI to write their essays, but many students say they are trying to use these tools in the right way.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
About three years after ChatGPT emerged, students are using artificial intelligence to help with outlining, brainstorming, and studying. In this week's episode of College Matters from The Chronicle, we examine how colleges can weight the promise of AI against its pitfalls. https://chroni.cl/47UcJO8
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars on what happens next. https://chroni.cl/44j7XHq
Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars on what happens next. https://chroni.cl/44j7XHq
Work on public policy, engagement, outreach, and broadening participation — what has been called “research citizenship” — should be considered alongside research prowess when it comes to promotion and tenure, our guest columnist writes. https://chroni.cl/486sJLA
Why Science Needs to Prioritize Mentoring
Progress is usually incremental and depends on innumerable contributors, our guest columnist writes. So we ought to focus on developing them.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Work on public policy, engagement, outreach, and broadening participation — what has been called “research citizenship” — should be considered alongside research prowess when it comes to promotion and tenure, our guest columnist writes. https://chroni.cl/486sJLA
Opinion | We should avoid pronouncements of what AI literacy is. Instead, we should lead with our uncertainty. https://chroni.cl/4pbTDbY
Opinion | Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI
Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Opinion | We should avoid pronouncements of what AI literacy is. Instead, we should lead with our uncertainty. https://chroni.cl/4pbTDbY
At least one Republican congressman thinks ongoing Education Department changes could threaten the well-being of vulnerable students, such as those with disabilities. https://chroni.cl/4oQinqt
Trump Administration Continues Efforts to Dismantle the Education Department
Grant-making programs that support college access and student success will be outsourced to the Department of Labor under a new deal.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
At least one Republican congressman thinks ongoing Education Department changes could threaten the well-being of vulnerable students, such as those with disabilities. https://chroni.cl/4oQinqt
Jeffrey Epstein’s close ties to researchers and higher education has long been well documented. Newly released documents reveal researchers Epstein supported long turned to Epstein for advice on research, personal relationships, and even sexual harassment allegations. https://chroni.cl/44kNSR4
Jeffrey Epstein’s Inbox Reveals His Deep Ties to Prominent Researchers
In emails between the disgraced financier and researchers he supported, they asked for funding, expressed gratitude, and sought advice on how to deal with sexual-misconduct allegations.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Jeffrey Epstein’s close ties to researchers and higher education has long been well documented. Newly released documents reveal researchers Epstein supported long turned to Epstein for advice on research, personal relationships, and even sexual harassment allegations. https://chroni.cl/44kNSR4
Harvard's prosecutorial culture was "miserable," says Jill Lepore. Even so, she stayed, but has since come to regret her silence. https://chroni.cl/4ihof9O
Why Jill Lepore Nearly Quit Harvard
The prosecutorial culture was “miserable.” She stayed, but has come to regret her silence at the time.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Harvard's prosecutorial culture was "miserable," says Jill Lepore. Even so, she stayed, but has since come to regret her silence. https://chroni.cl/4ihof9O
In Advice | Six steps to recalibrate how authority and responsibility are distributed among middle and senior leaders on your campus. https://chroni.cl/4a0uCMr
Advice | Life as a Middle Manager: Responsibility Without Authority
How to start fixing a system that sets up midlevel leaders to fail.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In Advice | Six steps to recalibrate how authority and responsibility are distributed among middle and senior leaders on your campus. https://chroni.cl/4a0uCMr
Opinion | Allan Bloom’s cynical exposés were a boon to book sales, but they caused real trouble for the public perception of higher education. https://chroni.cl/4rbsXKg
Opinion | The Roots of the Public’s Cynicism About Higher Ed
In the ’80s, Allan Bloom taught America to be suspicious of academe.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Opinion | Allan Bloom’s cynical exposés were a boon to book sales, but they caused real trouble for the public perception of higher education. https://chroni.cl/4rbsXKg
Scientists are now rebuilding under conditions that were adopted by their institutions. But some said their faith in the country’s once-steady scientific enterprise is shaken — a disruption no deal can fix. https://chroni.cl/4o2G11I
Are the Deals to Save Research Funding Good for Research?
More and more scientists are going back to work after their universities struck unprecedented — some say mistaken — arrangements with the Trump administration.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Scientists are now rebuilding under conditions that were adopted by their institutions. But some said their faith in the country’s once-steady scientific enterprise is shaken — a disruption no deal can fix. https://chroni.cl/4o2G11I
After layoffs, the employees who still have jobs are the lucky ones. But at four colleges with shrinking staffs, faculty and staff are struggling with grief, more work, and anxiety about what’s to come. https://chroni.cl/487Ut2F
They Were Spared From Campus Cuts. Now They’re Picking Up the Pieces.
What it’s like to be one of the “lucky” ones.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
After layoffs, the employees who still have jobs are the lucky ones. But at four colleges with shrinking staffs, faculty and staff are struggling with grief, more work, and anxiety about what’s to come. https://chroni.cl/487Ut2F
Colleges across the country are redefining networking as a lifelong mindset. The University of Delaware exemplifies this trend, helping students build connections that support their education and increase opportunities for career success. Read more: https://chroni.cl/4r5QU5C
November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Colleges across the country are redefining networking as a lifelong mindset. The University of Delaware exemplifies this trend, helping students build connections that support their education and increase opportunities for career success. Read more: https://chroni.cl/4r5QU5C