Scholarship & Research
Our news, opinion, and advice stories about scholarship and research answer your questions, like:
- What is the latest trend or scandal in your field’s research?
- How can you maximize your research time as a scholar?
- Who are the scholars shaping the work your field?
The Review | Conversation
The philosopher on the 2020 racial reckoning, the mistakes of DEI offices, and the imperative to cultivate thick skin.
The Review | Essay
Small liberal-arts colleges hold out the promise of utopia.
Working Better: Advice
It’s unreasonable to expect professors to hit hurdle after hurdle and still stay in the race. Institutions are going to have to clear some obstacles.
AI Infiltration
An AI conference was bombarded with complaints about peer reviews sounding AI-generated. Now the reviews are being reviewed.
Newly Updated
The Chronicle is tracking executive orders, statements from Trump, and agency actions that affect higher education, plus legal challenges directed at those measures. Here’s the latest.
Web of influence
His effort to punish universities could have a billion-dollar ripple effect.
The Review | Essay
A social-scientific approach has risks. But humanists can’t just leave it behind.
The Review | Essay
Peter Dear’s new book struggles to negotiate our polarized present.
'Threading the needle'
Is the historian’s definition of discrimination clarifying — or part of the problem?
A Goal to 'Harmonize'
The administration says its plan to reorganize 15 departments into four schools will foster interdisciplinarity and make academic fields more relevant. Faculty members aren’t so sure.
