Faculty

The Best and Worst Part of Being a Professor: Students

Teaching is the aspect of the job that the largest share of professors find satisfying, a Chronicle survey shows. But students are also a major source of stress.

Data

How Faculty Members View Students

What are the most satisfying parts of the job? The most challenging? Here’s what we learned.

Publishing

‘Sokal Squared’: Is Huge Publishing Hoax ‘Hilarious and Delightful’ or an Ugly Example of Dishonesty and Bad Faith?

A trio’s systematic trolling of journals yields seven accepted papers, including a study of canine rape culture in Portland, Ore., dog parks and a feminist rewrite of a chapter of Mein Kampf.

From the Archives

Anatomy of a Hoax

How the physicist Alan Sokal hoodwinked a group of humanists and why, 20 years later, it still matters.

Teaching

5 Tips for Using Multiple-Choice Tests to Bolster Learning

A new study finds that the same best practices that make an exam an effective assessment also deepen students’ understanding.

Campus Assault

Rutgers President Scraps 2-Year Limit on Sexual-Misconduct Complaints

In practice, the university didn’t always hold to the policy, its leaders say. But several women say their complaints were rejected or never acknowledged.

Re:Learning

Graduates Are Told They Can Do Anything With Their Degrees. Is That Why They Feel Lost?

For many privileged students at well-regarded institutions, the march toward a credential doesn’t include much time for technical training or reflection on career paths. That’s a problem, and the stakes are high.

Students

Create a ‘Personal Brand,’ and Other Tips Learned During a Day With a Recruiter

“It’s more than just knowing just a little bit about a company.” A recruiter gives advice on how to get employers to take notice of your students.

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The Chronicle Review

How Students Learned to Stop Worrying — and Love Being Spied On

We’ve arrived at a moment that could forever change the academy’s role in training citizens.

Advice

The Professor Is In: How to Discourage Sycophancy in Graduate School

Deflect your doctoral students’ excessive praise by emphasizing that academe is a workplace — not a holy order.

Lingua Franca

‘Different Than’ or ‘Different From’: Which Should You Say?

Ben Yagoda analyzes 26 sentences from spoken English, and who said them, to reach a conclusion.