The Chronicle of Higher Education

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The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper that is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and administration. The Chronicle of Higher Education is the major news service in the United States academic world. Based in Washington, D.C., The Chronicle is published every weekday online and appears weekly in print except the last two weeks in August and the last two weeks in December (a total of 49 issues a year). In print, The Chronicle is published in three sections: the news section; The Chronicle Review, a magazine of arts and ideas; and Careers, with career advice and job listings.

The Chronicle of Higher Education also publishes The Chronicle of Philanthropy, a newspaper for the nonprofit world; The Chronicle Guide to Grants, an electronic database of corporate and foundation grants; and the web portal Arts & Letters Daily.

The Chronicle was founded in 1966 by Corbin Gwaltney, who had been the founder and editor of the alumni magazine of The Johns Hopkins University. In 1993, it was one of the first newspapers to appear on the Internet, as a Gopher service.

Over the years, the paper has been a finalist and winner of many journalism awards. In 2005, two special reports — on diploma mills and plagiarism — were selected as finalists in the reporting category for a National Magazine Award. It has been a finalist for the award in general excellence every year from 2001 to 2005.

In 2007, The Chronicle won an Utne Reader Independent Press Award for political coverage. In its award citation, Utne called The Chronicle Review "a fearless, free-thinking section where academia's best and brightest can take their gloves off and swing with abandon at both sides of the increasingly predictable political divide." The New Republic, The Nation, Reason, and The American Prospect were among the finalists in the category.