| Administration By Jack Stripling The president’s purported effort to secure personal allegiance from the FBI director, whom he would later fire, illustrates the delicate and fraught practice of cultivating loyalty. |
| Faculty By Katherine Mangan A chapter of the book discusses the plaintiff’s relationship with a philosopher who later resigned from Northwestern. The plaintiff accuses Ms. Kipnis of falsely portraying her as "lying, manipulative, and litigious." |
| Curriculum By Lawrence Biemiller The California women’s college, facing a financial emergency, is turning to a curricular strategy that a number of other small colleges have employed to sharpen their profiles among prospective students. |
| Teaching By Dan Berrett A tool developed by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis shows whether chemistry students tend to extrapolate from concepts or rely on memorization. The difference can predict how well they fare academically. |
| The Ticker In addition, the proposed budget would reportedly cut funding in half for the federal work-study program and would sharply reduce grants focused on career and technical education. |
| Research By Paul Basken The agency’s director says new data show that researchers’ productivity tends to decline once they hold at least three major grants. |
| In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are nearly 25. Here are a couple of examples: |
| Presentations of provocative ideas have led to debates over free speech and have sometimes even sparked violence on campuses. This 32-page collection gives an overview of how college leaders have responded. |
| Concerns about remedial courses have led to new strategies for preparing students for college-level coursework. The 10 articles in this collection examine how some of those ideas are working. |
| Commentary By Ben Trachtenberg The university, torn by conflict, built trust and crafted a workable campus-speech policy by relying on openness and the combined wisdom of faculty and administrators. |
| The Chronicle Review By Asma Afsaruddin The 19th-century European project of constructing a monolithic “Muslim world” was bolstered by Muslim intellectuals themselves, a new book explains. |
| Lingua Franca Ben Yagoda examines the changing meaning of “fulsome.” |
| The Two-Year Track By Rob Jenkins How to use problem-solving and role-playing to help students write about something that matters to them. |
| Vitae By David Gooblar Teaching graduate students to pay attention to whom they’re writing for could go a long way toward improving academic writing. |
