Teaching

How One Email From You Could Help Students Succeed

A professor shares some promising results from sending a personalized message to students who failed her first exam — one example of the kind of “nudge” that can boost student performance.

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Politics

A UVa Historian Talks About Charlottesville’s White-Supremacist Rally a Year Later

Claudrena Harold discusses the difficult conversations she’s had with students and colleagues at the University of Virginia. “These events tested their faith,” she says.

Graduate Students

One Drink at Dinner, Don’t Set Your Sights on the Best Department, and Other Job-Search Advice From a Professor Who’s Been There

An economics professor writes a guide that mixes the encouraging, the practical, and the matter-of-fact.

History

Princeton Will Rename an Archway to Honor a Fugitive Slave

Like many universities, the Ivy League institution is asking itself how to interact with its ugly past. Naming an arch after former slave who worked there is a step forward, some historians say.

Leadership Insights: Innovation

Our latest booklet aims to help college leaders build a culture of innovation on their campuses. It includes examples of how colleges are developing and implementing new approaches; tips on what it takes to be an innovative president; and ways to look for ideas outside of higher ed. Buy your copy in the new Chronicle Store.

Commentary

How to Help Combat Global Warming, Campus By Campus

A confluence of expertise, enthusiasm, talent, and social responsibility makes universities the logical first responders to the growing climate-change crisis.

Lingua Franca

Itsy-Bitsy Teenie-Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Emoji

So long as we’re expanding the emoji lexicon to include less sexist imagery, says Lucy Ferriss, let’s open things up on both sides.