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Diversity statements have endured a rough few months. The statements, which generally ask people applying for faculty jobs or seeking promotion or tenure to describe how they can contribute to [...]

President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s announcement Sunday that he won't run for a second term leaves many of his signature higher-ed priorities hanging in the balance as Democrats rally around [...]

It's a predicament faced by scores of scholars, and it goes by many names: The two-body problem. The dual-career couple. The trailing spouse. How do do two scholars in a [...]

WHEN ADMINISTRATORS at Bradley University announced in July 2023 that the institution faced a $13-million budget hole, a committee of faculty members took on a daunting--and in many ways unfamiliar--challenge: [...]

For months, faculty members at the University of Kentucky have criticized what they see as an attempt by administrators to strip them of power. Now, some are worried they'll be [...]

ANDREA MARQUEZ teaches management in the business college of the University of Texas at San Antonio. She never thought of critical race theory as connected to her work in the [...]

ANYONE FOLLOWING HIGHER-EDUCATION NEWS in recent months has probably noticed a lot of votes of no confidence. Faculty Senate bodies at three campuses in the University of Maine system voted [...]

MARY BETH DAWSON had been as prepared as possible to lead her department through a pandemic. Dawson, who chairs the biology department at Kingsborough Community College, had kept an eye [...]

REBECCA s. CHOPP had a plan: She'd leave the chancellorship at the University of Denver after about 10 years, then return to the faculty and teach classes. It would be [...]

BEGINNING THIS SUMMER, faculty members at Indiana's public colleges will be evaluated on whether they're espousing 'intellectual diversity' in the classroom. That's the result of a law signed last month [...]

CASSIA ROTH remembers March 9, 2020, very clearly. It was her birthday. It was a week before a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown led her university to move its classes online. It [...]

WHEN a smattering of doctoral programs announced last spring that they wouldn't admit an incoming class in the fall of 2021, the idea felt drastic. To some, it felt desperate. [...]

THIS, Monique T. Mills had become convinced, was the way it was going to be. She'd won tenure at a top-tier research institution--Ohio State University--where her research on children who [...]

Expect transformed spaces and new norms. Here's what that will look like. DARLENE M. CAMPO welcomed her first students back on campus at 9:15 a.m. on May 11. Excited, they [...]

DAYS AFTER drawing national attention--including robust criticism and calls to resign --for her comments during a congressional hearing last month on antisemitism, Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard University, was [...]

JAMES G. PATTERSON got the email in the middle of a movie. It was the Wednesday night of finals week, and Patterson's 'Modern Ireland' class was gathering for the last [...]

WHEN LEYKIA Nulan joined the provost's office at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2015, her mission was to increase the enrollment of black and other minority students. Nulan, [...]

KATALIN KARIK6 doesn't want you to blame the university that demoted her, or the journal editors and grant-review committees that rejected her papers and proposals. She'd rather talk about how [...]

A SPATE of no-confidence votes has hit higher education in recent months, including high-profile cases in which faculty members at West Virginia University, Rutgers University, and the University of Arizona [...]

THE INCREASINGLY assertive involvement of conservative lawmakers in the affairs of higher education has spurred concerns about 'brain drain'--talented scholars choosing to leave their states or not considering employment there. [...]

AS NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA continues to move in a different ideological direction, former students and faculty members are building what they see as an educational resistance. They have joined [...]

LIKE EVERYONE else, Ben Blum believed in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Why wouldn't he? After all, it was not only one of psychology's most enduring studies, but also one of [...]

THE CHEMISTRY professor and his wife argued often in those days, as their marriage was coming to an end and a custody battle brewed over their two young children. Then, [...]

RECENTLY PROPOSED and passed legislation that targets tenure and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is having a chilling effect on the recruitment of faculty members and administrators in Florida and [...]

BENJAMIN E. SASSE began his first day as the president of the University of Florida early--6:45 a.m.--with a phone call. That was how Sasse spent most of the day, in [...]

IN AN OPINION COLUMN in The Wall Street Journal this month, former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos criticized administrative bloat at Stanford University, writing that the institution 'employs more [...]

COLLEGES ARE FACING CHALLENGES recruiting and retaining top talent in a pandemic-fueled employees' market. But Virginia State University last month introduced a new strategy to set it apart from other [...]

A DEAN at the University of Houston said he was ousted last month because of his support for abolitionism, a movement that calls for the elimination of police and prisons. [...]

A UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA regent drew fire recently after asking in a public meeting whether one of the system's campuses is 'too diverse.' Steven A. Sviggum, vice chair of the [...]

A trying year for hiring in higher ed only worsened over the summer, according to a survey of college leaders last month, fielded by the Chronicle with support from the [...]

MANY COLLEGES allowed faculty members to stop their tenure clocks during the pandemic to account for the personal and professional disruptions that hampered progress toward promotion. It was a relatively [...]

WHILE HIGHER EDUCATION has largely recovered nearly all of its pandemic-associated job losses, the task of recruiting and hiring administrators and staff members has become a daunting one, according to [...]

JANNETTE H. BON AMIES MORNING SHIFT as a front-desk agent at the Fairfield Inn and Suites starts at 7 a.m. She checks guests in and out, makes sure the coffee [...]

I WAS the media-relations coordinator at the University of Findlay, in Ohio, for about five years. In May 2019, I earned my master's degree in rhetoric and writing. I thought [...]

A NEW REPORT from the University of Iowa offers one take on the future of the higher-ed workplace--namely, that flexible work might not be as prominent in a post-pandemic era [...]

A PLAN to send out a survey about free speech to students on the University of Wisconsin's 13 campuses sparked the surprise resignation of the interim chancellor of the University [...]

LT. GOV. DAN PATRICK of Texas (below) said last month that he wanted to end tenure for all newly hired faculty members at the state's public universities and to revoke [...]

ON THE HEELS of firing its president last month, the University of Michigan announced a $490-million settlement with more than a thousand people who said they had experienced sexual abuse [...]

STUDENT WORKERS at Columbia University voted this month to end their 10-week strike, after union organizers struck a tentative agreement with university administrators. The walkout, which began on November 3, [...]

IN A RARE LEGAL VICTORY for tenured faculty members who are laid off, a state supreme court has awarded four professors their jobs back--a decision they say is a victory [...]

STUDENTS at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln weren't content with expressing outrage about an alleged sexual assault in a fraternity house last month. They made it clear they wouldn't [...]

THESOCIAL-MEDIA APP YikYak, which allows users to post anonymous messages visible to anyone in a five-mile radius, returned last month after a four-year hiatus. And for some colleges, it was [...]

THE REMOVAL of an instructor from her classroom in November is prompting accusations of administrative overreach and questions about academic freedom and the shifting perceptions of humor on a campus [...]

IN CHINA, students and scholars are being imprisoned by the Communist Party at 're-education camps.' In Sudan, authorities are beating and tear-gassing students participating in protests. And as Brazil reels [...]

THE PRESIDENT of Marlboro College says the small liberal-arts institution in rural Vermont is entering an alliance with Boston's Emerson College. It's been described elsewhere as a merger, and as [...]

ONE ADVISER expected that a graduate student would always be 'on call,' and 'knew how to keep us close by threatening our futures.' Another grad student left her program after [...]