Academe Today

Advice

Why Your Advice for Ph.D.s Leaving Academe Might Be Making Things Worse

Tips for the advice-givers on how to be helpful when your protégé leaves academe to pursue a nonfaculty career.

The Chronicle Review

Why Everybody Loses When Someone Leaves Academe

We cope with it in ways that largely erase the people we lose, ignore their pain and grief, and suppress our own.

The Chronicle Interview

She Wrote a Farewell Letter to Colleagues. Then 80,000 People Read It.

Erin Bartram reflects on her overnight transformation from spurned scholar to prophet of the academic jobless. 

Curriculum

Students Said a Keystone Course Was Racist. Here’s What Professors Did About It.

Protesters at Reed College objected to the limitations of “Introduction to Humanities: Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean,” a longtime requirement for freshmen. And so steps were taken.

Administration

How to Respond to Racist Incidents

In the short term, affirm your values and mission, experts say. In the long term, work on the cultural antagonisms that fester on every campus.

Graduate Students

Union Organizer at Penn State’s Grad School Cites University’s ‘Veiled Threat’ to Foreign Students

Amid a pending vote on unionization, the university said that international students could be required to leave the country in the event of a union strike.

Recruits and Deals

New Colleges Are Named in Basketball-Corruption Inquiry

A new indictment states that an executive for a sports-apparel company paid the parents of college-basketball recruits for players’ commitments. The indictment includes players at Kansas and N.C. State, and names the Universities of Miami and of Louisville.

Lessons for College Leaders

Looking for tips on how to get faculty members on board with a new initiative? Want advice from veteran presidents? We’ve compiled articles from Idea Lab, our section on colleges solving problems, to help you be a better leader. Buy a copy here.

Advice

The Professor Is In: Is Texting During a Job Interview Now Acceptable?

In a campus visit, you are assessed on your adherence to social scripts expected of you in that setting.

Lingua Franca

The Physical and Metaphysical Origins of ‘Tinfoil Hat’

The person wearing one is not the same as a “tin-pot despot,” Lucy Ferriss discovers. She uncovers the meanings of those and other stannic expressions.