Academe Today

Leadership

What Are the Biggest Challenges You’ve Faced as a Female Leader?

We posed that question to several current and former presidents. Here are their stories of confronting — and overcoming — biases and stereotypes.

The Chronicle Review

What It’s Like to Be a Woman in the Academy

We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.

Curriculum

Why Are Students Ditching the History Major?

The number has declined 33 percent since 2011, the first year in which students who witnessed the financial crisis unfold could easily change their majors.

Student Success

Dean at UC-Irvine Seeks to Solve Higher Ed’s Existential Crisis With Data — Lots of It

A research project aims to modernize how colleges measure and think about student success.

Research

Rice U. Will Investigate Professor Who Claims Involvement in First Genetic Altering of Babies

The professor told the Associated Press that he had assisted a Chinese researcher with the work, which the university calls “troubling.”

Advice

How to Be Strategic on the Tenure Track

There are ways to further your quest for tenure without overworking. In this Two-Minute Tips video, Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz gives you five tips toward that goal.

Two-Minute Tips

Short videos to help you excel in the academic workplace. Today’s episode represents the end of Season 1. Click here to binge-watch the whole season!

The Daily Briefing

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

The Chronicle Review

Who Will Defend the University?

The academy has nurtured many partisan causes, but there seem to be few partisans of the academy itself left.

Lingua Franca

A Pocket Brexicon for Americans

Academics visiting Britain from the United States this holiday season will have trouble understanding some new words in the newspapers. Geoff Pullum has prepared a helpful Brexit glossary.