The Chronicle Review

How Academic Corruption Works

When academics are perceived as shills.

From the Archives

Crony Capitalism for Intellectuals

Unexamined biases may keep economists from warning the public about financial risks.

Two-Minute Tips

How to Improve Your Teaching-Philosophy Statement

Writing a teaching philosophy can be a daunting task. Just how do you articulate your approach to the classroom? Worry not. Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz is here with six tips for expressing your philosophy and landing that job interview.

Two-Minute Tips

Short videos to help you excel in the academic workplace.

Tenure and Promotion

Do Universities Value Public Engagement? Not Much, Their Policies Suggest

Scholars analyzed the language in documents from more than 100 institutions describing tenure-and-promotion criteria.

Free Speech and Safety

Don’t Stop Inviting Controversial Speakers. Just Prepare Prudently.

Student collaboration across political lines, early planning, careful crowd control, and public preparatory discussion of free-speech principles are among the ways colleges can make a potentially tense situation manageable.

Re:Learning

What the Degree Really Means

As a society, we have put a “pay to play” barrier on the path to good jobs, with college credentials the cost of getting in the game. That’s a big source of resentment about higher education’s value today.

The Daily Briefing

The Daily Briefing tells individual subscribers everything they need to know about higher ed. Here’s a sample.

Advice

How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome

Scholars of all ages wrestle with feelings of “intellectual phoniness.” So how do you get over it?

Lingua Franca

What Are ‘Allness Terms’?

You won’t find that name in the dictionary, but these terms help linguists and other educators decode motivation, threats, and emotional drive, says Roger Shuy.

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