Vimal Patel

When measuring scholarly output, it helps to ask faculty to develop their own yardsticks.

What one cohort of black female Ph.D.s in philosophy says about the challenges facing academe as it tries to be more inclusive.

The backlash against Third World Quarterly was swift after it published a defense of colonialism. Nearly half of its editorial board resigned, saying the piece had been published even though peer reviewers had rejected it.

Doctoral programs have an urgent directive from students, the public, and the professors who run them: It’s time to change.

Protesters at Reed College objected to the limitations of “Introduction to Humanities: Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean,” a longtime requirement for freshmen. And so steps were taken.

Mainstream news accounts of complaints about inauthentic dining-hall food helped foster the image of crybaby students. But the articles didn’t tell the whole story.

How a once-fringe idea went mainstream.

The chancellor says it’s about protecting undergraduate education, but strikers argue it’s about who has access in the first place.

Doctoral training hasn’t traditionally been concerned with whether future faculty members are good teachers. New programs are meant to change that.

Here is a collection of articles from The Chronicle about recent unionization efforts by graduate students, rulings that have aided them, and how the picture may change under a new administration.

The former presidential candidate talks to us about his new job and how colleges can regain public trust.

You might even say her 2006 thesis was a bit ahead of the curve.

An experiment with anonymized applications and personal outreach helped attract people of all backgrounds.