Academe Today

Faith

‘Sometimes You Go Home With Tears’: Being a College’s Muslim Chaplain

Since the election of President Trump, the religious leaders have faced pressure to deal with Islamophobia.

Teaching

Duke U. Lecturer’s Syllabus Excludes Student Reporters From Course

Staff members of the university’s student newspaper were surprised to discover that they had been explicitly barred from the class.

Finance

These Universities Benefit From an Offshore Tax Loophole

The latest revelation in The New York Times’ “Paradise Papers” series, based on documents from a Bermuda-based law firm, is about how major investors, including colleges, skirt federal taxes.

Faculty

Tattoos Don’t Change. Academic Minds Might.

In navigating the ivory tower, tattooed professors face attitudes old and new.

Government

How One University Pollster Was Anointed an Election-Night Winner

Quinnipiac University’s polling institute seemed to be out on a limb with its predictions in key gubernatorial races. Then the results rolled in.

Students

When Student Activists Discovered Their New Friend Was an Undercover Cop

“I talked to him a lot about my dissertation research,” one Ph.D. student said.

Chronicle Focus

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 more than 25. Here are a couple of examples:

How Students Cheat in a High-Tech World

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.

A Guide to Writing Good Academic Prose

In 10 articles, Steven Pinker and other experts offer advice that will make your academic prose less cumbersome and perhaps even a joy to read.

Commentary

Networked U.’s: This Is What Will Save Higher Ed

Through technology, multiple institutions can link together to deliver essential services at a discount.

Lingua Franca

It Ain’t Me

Ben Yagoda says Geoffrey Pullum and him agree that English grammar allows you to use an accusative as part of the subject of a sentence.

First Person

The Wrong Kind of Famous

If the good ship Academic Freedom sinks under the weight of Twitter attacks on controversial profs, we will all drown.

Page Proof

Ph.D.s Are Still Writing Poorly, Part 1

To get published now, your book must be well written. So why are new faculty members still producing deadly dull monographs?