Academe Today: Revisit Some of Our Most Popular Articles of 2022

A Stunning Level of Student Disengagement; Why Are Scholars Such Snitches?; and more. ADVERTISEMENT [Academe Today Logo]( Did someone forward you this newsletter? [Sign up free]( to receive your own copy. You can now read The Chronicle on [Flipboard]( and [Google News](. DATA [Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?]( By Jacquelyn Elias [STORY IMAGE]( The Chronicle compiled the peer institutions for nearly 1,500 institutions from the 2020-21 year. ADVERTISEMENT THE COVID GENERATION [A ‘Stunning’ Level of Student Disconnection]( By Beth McMurtrie [STORY IMAGE]( Professors are reporting record numbers of students checked out, stressed out, and unsure of their future. BACKSTORIES [Her University Celebrated Her Inspiring Story. Then It Started Asking Questions.]( By Tom Bartlett [STORY IMAGE]( After an anonymous email, the University of Pennsylvania went to extraordinary lengths to verify a student’s story — reaching out to dozens of people and scrutinizing what she had written about herself in several essays. SPONSOR CONTENT | Stevens Institute of Technology [At Stevens, Student Connection Is Everything — and Everywhere]( THE REVIEW | OPINION [The Great Faculty Disengagement]( By Kevin R. McClure and Alisa Hicklin Fryar [STORY IMAGE]( Faculty members aren’t leaving in droves, but they are increasingly pulling away. THE REVIEW | ESSAY [Academe Is a Hotbed of Craven Snitches]( By Laura Kipnis [STORY IMAGE]( How did scholars become such tattletales? PAY UPDATE [How Much Has Faculty Pay Changed Over Time?]( By Brian O’Leary [STORY IMAGE]( See the latest federal data on compensation for all ranks of the profession at thousands of American colleges. THE REVIEW | ESSAY [I Was a Diversity Hire. Then They Unhired Me.]( By Sheila Sundar [STORY IMAGE]( What a nightmare job search says about equity and the academy. THE BIG QUIT [Why They Left: 5 Stories From Professors of Color Who’d Had Enough]( By Brianna Hatch, Beth McMurtrie, Wyatt Myskow, and Megan Zahneis [STORY IMAGE]( They started out eager and optimistic. Then came the casual racism, the isolation, and the financial strain. STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING [‘It’s Not About the Evidence Anymore’]( By Beckie Supiano [STORY IMAGE]( Scott Freeman’s research shows that teaching with active-learning techniques works in STEM courses. So why is lecturing still the dominant model? DISAPPEARING STUDENTS [The Shrinking of Higher Ed]( By Karin Fischer [STORY IMAGE]( In the past, colleges grew their way out of enrollment crises. This time looks different. Happy Holidays! The Chronicle now takes its customary holiday publishing break. No newsletters are planned until January 3, but we will continue to update our website as news happens. 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