Chronicle of Higher Education
Newspaper | Independent
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper that is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and administration. Based in Washington, DC, The Chronicle is published every weekday online and appears weekly in print except the last two weeks in August and the last two weeks in December (a total of 49 issues a year). In print, The Chronicle is published in three sections: the news section; The Chronicle Review, a magazine of arts and ideas; and Careers, with career advice and job listings. The Chronicle of Higher Education also publishes The ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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How a Student-Friendly Kindle Could Change the Textbook Market
Rumors that Amazon will introduce a wide-format Kindle have the news media and bloggers speculating about whether the new gadget will spark an electronic-textbook revolution ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Student Lending Would Change Under Senate's Budget Plan
The U.S. Senate last night gave final approval to a budget blueprint that sets the stage for an overhaul of student lending.Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Books Can't Compete
Here’s a depressing and blunt comment from Larry McMurtry, speaking not only as a novelist but as a bookstore owner (it’s an interview): The end of the culture of the ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
The Legacy of the Bush-Cheney Years: Trends That May Linger
New York — For the last eight years, progressive historians have been vocally critical of the Bush-Cheney administration’s war in Iraq, war on terror, stress on free ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Classroom Clickers and the Cost of Technology
Last spring I received an e-mail message from my university's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching that read like an advertisement: "If you are thinking of ...Posted by Michael Bugeja -
Health Care: a Campaign Primer
John McCain and Barack Obama have offered proposals that would — in very different ways — reshape the landscape of American health care. The Chronicle spoke with several ...Posted by Alexander C. Kafka -
The Russians Are Coming
When the Russian army invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia last month, it was little surprise to many observers, who have noted for several years the increasingly ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Supply-Side Education
"There was enormous growth in educational attainment between 1900 and 1970," Goldin says in an interview. "But after 1970, the growth in attainment became much more sluggish. ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
For Professors, 'Friending' Can Be Fraught
For all its pitfalls, Facebook can prompt meaningful exchanges. Some professors look up students who e-mail them with questions or are scheduled to come to office hours. What ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
What We Don't Know About Gambling, but Should
Do religion and gambling both flourish wherever uncertainty exists? That, it seems to me, is a worthwhile question for scholars to ponder.Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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The Rural Brain Drain
American youth are abandoning the Midwest's small towns. The sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas explore causes and remedies. -
Stop the Presses! Revamped Journalism Courses Attract Students - Curriculum
At a time when the newspaper industry is in free fall and thousands of jobs are being cut each year, one would think that the halls of the nation's journalism schools would be ...Posted by Michael Bugeja -
Understanding How Tenure Decisions Are Made
Some negative promotion and tenure decisions seem predetermined the moment a newly hired scholar signs a job contract. Chalk it up to a bad institutional match: The job ...Posted by Michael Bugeja -
Colleges Using Technology to Recruit Students Try to Hang On to the Conversation
With social media, anyone can chime in. Colleges that were once occupied with staying on message are warily opening up to the e-masses—and trying to get used to that.Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Progressive Patriotism
I was listening to my local NPR station when the host asked, "Is there a new progressive patriotism in America?" Calls flooded in proclaiming a resounding Yes, and I began ...Posted by Stephen Pizzo -
New-Media Scholars' Place in 'the Pool' Could Lead to Tenure
Re:Poste, a Web application that encourages academics to pick apart online articles from the mass media, is only in its infancy. But the program has already generated buzz on ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
How Did Honor Evolve?
people are, at least on occasion, inclined to do things that are detrimental to their personal benefit so long as their actions are sufficiently beneficial to the larger ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Israeli History at 60
No history of Israel's origins, however, can achieve definitive status for now. While Israel routinely declassifies much state material after 30 years, the Arab states that ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Incomplete Revolution
The reality of "conservative" America is that the federal government remains a large presence in American life. When disasters strike, we turn to government. When we retire, ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Fears for Democracy in India
While Americans have focused on President Bush's "war on terror," Iraq, and the Middle East, democracy has been under siege in another part of the world. India -- the most ...Posted by Linda Raiteri
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