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'Bright and Shiny Things'
The ascendance of Southern flagships is a story of sun, football, and a sophisticated recruitment strategy.
Statistical snapshots of college enrollment by Carnegie classification for doctoral universities, master’s colleges and universities, baccalaureate colleges, and baccalaureate/associate colleges.
Finance & Operations
Leaders say cuts are necessary to close a $48-million budget hole.
'Deep Betrayals'
The head football coach is the latest high-profile campus figure to leave a job in disgrace.
The Review | Essay
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
Investigation
How the government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
The Edge
Re-establishing meaningful relationships with students is the best way for the sector to reclaim its purpose.
What Matters Most
From the September 11 terrorist attacks to the Great Recession and the recent dawning of AI, colleges have been tested and disrupted in the quarter century.
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The end of the graduate-school gauntlet is in sight. You’ve completed your coursework, passed your comprehensive exams, gotten your dissertation proposal approved, and already written several chapters. But now comes one more hurdle, which might feel more daunting than all the others: the academic job market.
In this new series, Kevin R. McClure explores higher education as a workplace — what it does well, what it does poorly, and what it can do to improve the professional lives of faculty and staff members.
The average salary of an instructional faculty member is $92,823. But how far that salary goes can vary depending on where you teach and where you live. The Chronicle looked at how the salaries of instructional faculty stack up, and how the cost of living affects spending power.
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