| Graduate Students By Vimal Patel Formal mentoring programs like those at two universities in Iowa aim to diversify the professoriate, especially in the sciences and mathematics. |
| Finance By Peter Schmidt Small private colleges stand to lose both money and student diversity in continually seeking to outbid each other for students, a new study warns. |
| Faculty By Peter Schmidt A study of newly tenured professors finds their job satisfaction hinges much more on day-to-day interactions than on organizational efforts to change the workplace. |
| Research By Peter Schmidt A study of people who recently attended for-profit colleges finds them to be much more capable and confident than stereotypes suggest. |
| The Chronicle Review By Elbert Ventura Can Yascha Mounk save liberal democracy? |
| 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. |
| Professors may want to retire, but they also have jobs they love and don’t want to give up. Articles in this 36-page collection examine ways that administrators can make faculty members’ paths into retirement easier. |
| Cheating has become increasingly complex, with students in the United States going online to find surrogates in other countries to do their work for them. This collection of nine articles prepares educators for new challenges in stemming a tide of deception. |
| Advice By Zachary A. Smith If you find it difficult to be transparent, then you probably shouldn’t be applying for the position. |
| Commentary By W. Brad Johnson If minority professors are going to be effectively recruited, developed, and retained, white faculty members must become more deliberate and effective cross-race mentors. |
| Commentary By Robert Shireman The public university is giving a long list of rights and privileges to its new partner, a firm answerable to Wall Street investors. |
| The Chronicle Review By Diane Coyle As economists explain in a new collection of essays, there is nothing inexorable about Thomas Piketty’s conclusions. |
| Lingua Franca Quotations: just one word after another. But who first strung those particular words together? A website tells those tales, writes Lucy Ferriss, who also shares one of her own. |
