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Are University Presidents Paid Like CEOs?

The Chronicle of Higher Education just published its survey of public university presidents’ compensation, which rose 4.7 percent, with four presidents receiving more than $1 million. During that year, public university faculty salaries rose less than 2 percent, a discrepancy that replicated the previous four years. Show More Summary

Who does screencasting help the most?

An interesting report on the Casting Out Nines Blog (part of the Chronicle of Higher Education Blog Network): Who does screencasting help the most? The author summarizes the results of a Winter 2011 paper in Advances in Engineering Education (PDF),...

Guess which public university president made the most money last year

Every year the Chronicle of Higher Education publishes the compensation of university presidents, and it just put out the list for four-year public colleges for the year. No. 1 on the list may surprise you. The president who earned the … Continue reading ?

Public College and University President Salaries, 2012-13

Chronicle of Higher Education: Public College and University President Salaries, 2012-13: Graham B. Spanier (Penn State University): $2,906,721 Jay Gogue (Auburn University): $2,542,865 E. Gordon Gee (Ohio State University): $1,899,420 Alan G. Merten (George Mason University): $1,869,369 Jo Ann M. Gora (Ball State University): $984,647 Mary Sue Coleman (University of...

Four University Presidents Make over $1 Million — Chronicle of Higher Education

Glenn C. Altschuler: Hire Education

Since the 1970s, Jeffrey Selingo, editor at large for the Chronicle of Higher Education, acknowledges, plenty of people have predicted the end of colleges and universities as we know them. Now, however, Selingo thinks they may be ri...

valdedictorians and class background

The Chronicle of Higher Education features a study of valedictorians and finds that class background affects where they apply to college: Poorer students remain underrepresented at America’s top colleges, research has shown. And their...Show More Summary

Chronicle: How to Make Legal Education Less Costly

Chronicle of Higher Education: Accountability and Flexibility Are Said to Be Keys to the Crisis in Legal Education: Finding solutions to the problems plaguing legal education will require holding law schools accountable while giving them the flexibility to craft strategies to educate lawyers who can find jobs, pay off their...

Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, April 23, 2013

1. How to improve public online education (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 2. Review: Newsweek editor talks about his job as dean of J-school in book (Digital Journalism) 3. Coursera hosts Asia's first MOOC (Stanford Daily) 4. Tips for kid safety on the Internet for parents and educators (EleSapiens) 5. Show More Summary

‘The Chronicle of Higher Education’ Names Michael G. Riley Its New Editor-in-Chief

According to a press release we received from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Michael G. Riley has been named its new chief executive officer and editor-in-chief. Riley will replace Philip W. Semas. He worked at The Chronicle forShow More Summary

Tushnet: Reflections on the Federalist Society, Pepperdine, and 'Conservative' Law Schools

Following up on Tuesday's post, Chronicle of Higher Education, How Conservatives Captured the Law, and in particular this statement: Academics associated with the Federalist Society have educated a new generation of conservative law students, played a role in the rise of openly conservative law schools like Pepperdine's and George Mason's,...

Confessions of a Copy Editor

(Eugene Volokh) The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting and thoughtful article by Prof. Anne Curzan about her discovery that one of the supposed rules she had been enforcing for years as a copy editor was in fact not a recognized rule at all: I have had an inkling for a while now that as a [...]

Riley Out at BGOV, In at Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Michael Riley, the Editorial Director of Bloomberg Government, as it’s new CEO. He replaces Philip Semas, who is retiring after 44 years at The Chronicle. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Daily Must Reads, April 17, 2013

1. Digital Public Library of America delays debut in wake of marathon bombing (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 2. Twitter, discovery, and the problem of simplicity (AllThingsD) 3. Study shows newspaper readers are engaged, but local papers need to do more on mobile (PaidContent.org) 4. Show More Summary

Chronicle: How Conservatives Captured the Law

Chronicle of Higher Education, How Conservatives Captured the Law: The history of the Federalist Society is a story of how disaffection, bold ideas, commitment to principle, and enlightened institution-building have created a significant conservative shift in the legal, policy, and political landscape of America over the past 30 years. The...

Changing the World, Little By Little

Roger Pilon If ever you wondered how important institutions were for changing the climate of ideas, the Chronicle of Higher Education released a cover article today, “How Conservatives Captured the Law,” that should settle the question. Show More Summary

A Cass Sunstein OIRA post-mortem

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: But from some administrative-law experts and OIRA-watchers, Mr. Sunstein earned praise. He brought "much-needed academic rigor to the position," says Eric Posner, a sometime co-author and a law professor at the University of Chicago, where Mr. Sunstein used to teach. In his reports and...

Even the professors behind massive online classes aren’t sure they should count for credit

Professors pioneering the new massive open online courses have mostly positive things to say about the "MOOCs" but most don't believe their schools should award credit, says a survey from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

So Why Are Law Students Becoming Less Literate?

Thanks to a post on the Legal Skills Prof Blog, my attention was directed to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Michele Goodwin, who teaches law at the University of Minnesota. Goodwin was reacting to a warning by “Kenneth...Show More Summary

THE DIGITAL AGE OF DICTIONARIES.

An interesting piece by Jennifer Howard from the Chronicle of Higher Education: "In the Digital Era, Our Dictionaries Read Us." It deals with dictionaries tracking what words readers search for, the third edition of the OED ("it's far...Show More Summary