With a new semester already underway, college students are taking time to settle into their new routine and familiarize themselves with their courses. While trying to get a sense of the workload and ...

What is academic integrity? As we are now in the year of 2025, we are living in a time where technology is becoming advanced and this sometimes makes things easier as we might have a lot on our plates ...

Over the past couple of months, we’ve been reporting on an experiment in using an academic blog to peer-review a scholarly book. The results are in, and we have an update today in The Chronicle. Noah ...

In this article, we will take a look at the 30 universities with the highest academic ranking. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, you can go directly to the Academic Ranking of World ...

Is it any blog written by an academic, even if the posts are about the messiness of the blogger’s house (warning: The language is a little, um, rough)? Is it a sober blog written by academics about ...

As one of the goals of the proposed new curriculum is to provide students with increased academic freedom, the initiative also includes enhancements to the pre-major advising program. According to the ...

Earlier this year, Time magazine highlighted the brand-new Alice L. Walton School of Medicine (AWSOM), its founder Alice Walton, its innovative educational approach and its founding dean and chief ...

This guest post was written by Zachary Rausch. Source: Zachary Rausch Trigger Warning I am going to begin this article by presenting a potentially uncomfortable argument. The rest of this article will ...

This post is in response to Is Graduate School a Ponzi Scheme? By Michael W Kraus Ph.D. Last week I read Tal Yarkoni's excellent blog post on the things he learned during a failed academic job search ...

Faculty blogs, a relatively new phenomenon on campus, can muddle distinctions between a professor as private person, teacher, and professional academic. Chicago faculty bloggers—internet shorthand for ...

My Sunday column is about Vernon Parrington, one of the University of Oklahoma’s first faculty members and its first football coach. He was one of several OU faculty members who were fired for no good ...