TEACHER’S PET By A.W. Strouse, Illustration by Sam Kalda for The Chronicle Review My husband didn’t want to get a cat. Evan had never owned a pet, because, as he explained to me, “bl...
DOES ENGINEERING EDUCATION BREED TERRORISTS? By Dan Berrett In May 2010, Faisal Shahzad hoped to kill dozens of pedestrians when he parked his Nissan Pathfinder near Times Square, loaded wit...
“I could just start off with the bad part. I was in jail for six months — not jail, juvenile. I was 14. And I got out and I went to high school and I told myself, I’m gonna rise above what ...
THRUST INTO A NATIONAL DEBATE ON RACE, 2 MISSOURI CHIEFS RESIGN Outrage over racial inequity at the University of Missouri came to a head on Monday, as the two most powerful men at the institu...
Why Campus Traditions Matter (Photo credit: Gallaudet University Library Deaf Collections and Archives.) THE RAT FUNERAL: HOW A SHOCKING RITUAL EVOLVED INTO A TOUCHING RITE OF PASSAGE Stud...
WHY CAMPUS TRADITIONS MATTER With very few ways of acknowledging adulthood in American society, campus traditions serve as important coming-of-age events, argues Simon J. Bronner, a professor ...
Fish Tang, 21 A student at Hong Kong Baptist U., she was photographed by Mark Leong on Nathan Road in Mong Kok, where she slept during the nights of the Umbrella Revolution. I consider mysel...
Nathan Law, 22 The secretary general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students was photographed by Mark Leong in the federation’s offices with supplies left over from the occupied areas. I w...
Stella Li, 24 The recent graduate from Hong Kong Baptist U. was photographed by Mark Leong at a Mong Kok cellphone shop where the owner let students and other activists charge their phones for...
Prince Wong, 18 Photographed by Mark Leong in her dorm room at Lingnan U. My parents told me about Tiananmen when I was very young, like 7 or 8 years old. Every June 4 they went to the Tiana...
REFLECTIONS FROM A REVOLUTION Photographs and interviews by Mark Leong, Redux The students who took to Hong Kong’s streets in the fall of 2014 were equal parts angry, hopeful, and innocent....
“ASK ME”: WHAT LGBTQ STUDENTS WANT THEIR PROFESSORS TO KNOW The federal law known as Title IX is meant to protect students from discrimination based on their gender identity. But many gay,...
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE TO STAY OPEN Virginia’s attorney general announced on Saturday that an agreement had been reached to keep Sweet Briar College, which abruptly announced in March that it p...
View the interactive piece ON BEING UNDOCUMENTED and read their stories on our site . The group of undocumented students who gathered at the City University of New York this month to recogn...
AT SWEET BRIAR, A BITTERSWEET COMMENCEMENT “A little over 114 years ago a remarkable woman stood right here and, in the discord and uncertainties of that m...
The latest from The Chronicle Review: A PLAGUE OF HYPERSENSITIVITY By Todd Gitlin Are we living through a plague of hypersensitivity? Most readers will be aware of campaigns to dampen ha...
BALTIMORE’S COLLEGES PONDER HOW THEY CAN HELP FIX A BROKEN CITY By Scott Carlson and Lee Gardner The rioting, looting, arson, and vandalism that happened here this week might have horrifie...
ABRUPT CLOSING OF CORINTHIAN CAMPUSES LEAVES 16,000 STUDENTS SCRAMBLING By Goldie Blumenstyk and Casey Fabris Students at 28 campuses owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc. encountered locked doo...
From The Chronicle Review CHOOSING LOVE: AN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHER SEES INTENTION IN ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT By Clancy Martin Few philosophical projects are more ambitious or daunting than writi...
THE CELEBRITY ILLUSION Why does America invest so much in the idea of fame? From The Chronicle Review essay by Timothy Caulfield “Damn, I shouldn’t have slept so long” is my first t...