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Can You Measure Your Scholarship by Counting Citations?
A growing number of researchers say they can’t, now that their work trickles out to the world through social-media sites instead of journals. Jennifer Howard, a Chronicle reporter, explains how the...
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The Liberal Arts Come to China
In a nation whose institutions typically teach to the test and leave little room for elective courses, general-education programs are starting to gain a foothold. Karin Fischer, a Chronicle reporter,...
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Have Viewbooks Passed Their Prime?
A growing number of admissions officers are having doubts about those big, glossy brochures that get shipped to prospective students. Beckie Supiano, a Chronicle reporter, explains why some viewbooks...
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What Keeps Scholarly Groups Afloat?
It might not be what you think. Dan Berrett, a Chronicle reporter, explains why some disciplinary societies are still paying for decisions made decades ago—and charts the path forward for struggling...
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Why College Matters—and Why It’s in Peril
What makes the American college experience valuable—and how can we preserve it? Andrew Delbanco, director of American studies at Columbia University, wrestles with those questions in his new book,...
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How a College Came Back From the Dead
Three years ago Antioch College was shuttered. Now it enrolls 33 students, and it’s hatched a plan to attract many more. Lawrence Biemiller, a Chronicle editor, explains the institution’s unique...
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Why Are Beef Cattle Getting Bigger?
You’ve probably heard that conventionally-grown beef tends to come loaded with drugs and hormones. But you might not realize that land-grant universities have played a crucial role in making that so....
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If Consultants Ran a College …
… what would it look like? The University of North Texas at Dallas, which is reinventing itself with the help of Bain & Company, might provide some answers. Goldie Blumentsyk, a Chronicle...
View ArticleIntroducing a New AfterWord
When we first conceived of the AfterWord podcast, it was based on a couple of pretty simple ideas: that Chronicle reporters do a lot of fascinating work, and that you might like to hear some of the...
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Who Were the First Black Dandies?
It was last year, at a black-studies conference at Northwestern University, that my colleague Stacey Patton noticed something surprising. All those graduate students and young professors milling...
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