The Chronicle of Higher Education

In this week's Race on Campus newsletter, one reporter explores whether diversity training works, and how measuring the training can be difficult. Read and subscribe here.

In Advice: “As a scholarly writer, your goal should be to reach your largest potential audience. It will be smaller than Stephen King’s, but it might be larger than you think,” says a practical new guide for academics on how to write better.

In Advice: How to find value in a campus job fair if you’re a doctoral student considering career options beyond academe.

Opinion: Does "shared governance" really justify imposing boycotts on individual faculty members?

There had to be a way, Greil Marcus thought, to use his academic training to tell a big new story about rock and roll, situating it in the broader ambit of American culture, American myth.

Frustrated faculty members point to a litany of examples when arguing that Indiana University doesn’t value academic freedom, including the removal of a professor from the classroom over a room-booking mishap and a failure to push back on a state law weakening tenure protections.

This spring we saw some professors participate in campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war. In this week's episode of our podcast College Matters from The Chronicle we report on why professors got involved, and what consequences they've faced.

Donald Trump's harmful lies about migrants eating dogs flooded a town with threats. Two colleges canceled in-person classes for a week because of it.

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