Academe Today

Completion

Student Needs Have Changed. Advising Must Change, Too.

Gone are the days of simply helping students register for classes and pick a major. New strategies and technologies are aimed at improving retention and graduation rates.

Commentary

How to Best Harness Student-Success Technology

Lessons from Georgia State University, where an extensive intervention system has helped eliminate all achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity, and income level.

Special Reports

Student Success

Colleges are increasingly being judged by how well they retain and graduate students, especially those who are first generation or low income. To better serve those populations and others, this collection profiles recent efforts that have made strides in improving student outcomes.

Leadership

Questions Swirl as Earlham College’s President Will Leave After Just a Year

Alan Price’s departure follows trustees’ call for steep budget cuts that some say he opposed.

Administration

Grand Canyon U. Isn’t Just Becoming a Nonprofit. It’s Also Testing a Model That Could Change Higher Ed.

The university has struck a deal with Grand Canyon Education, still a for-profit company, which will manage most nonacademic operations. That type of outsourcing could be coming soon to a campus near you.

Research

Documents Raise New Concerns About a University Psychiatrist’s Study on Children

A prominent University of Illinois at Chicago professor enrolled her young sons as healthy control subjects in a troubled study that earned a rare rebuke from a federal grantmaker.

The Daily Briefing

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

Commentary

Deep Thought Shouldn’t Have to Be a Luxury Good

A recent memoir demonstrates how even the most talented students can be undone by financial stress.

The Chronicle Review

In Lieu of Executions, Graduations

The inside story of education on the inside.

Lingua Franca

The Triumph and Tragedy of Oscar Wilde

A London performance of An Ideal Husband prompts Geoff Pullum to reflect on all that has changed, 120 years too late for the playwright, since its debut.