March 10, 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 63, Issue 27-
StudentsHow a University Fights to Keep Students’ Demographics From Becoming Their Destiny
At the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, it involves hard numbers and a human touch. -
The Review
Why Administrators Should Teach
It keeps them grounded, savvy, empathetic, and focused on a college’s mission. -
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The Review
It’s Not All Relative
Can a devotion to cultural tolerance lead to the triumph of alternative facts? -
The Review
Why Colleges’ Liberal Lean Is a Problem
It’s driven by faculty members, not students, and it’s as prevalent on large public campuses as it is on small, leafy ones. -
News
Building Remedial Ed’s Support Structure
It’s the help students get outside the classroom that often gets them through a course. -
News
How CUNY Community Colleges Make Intensive Student Support Work
Their ASAP program is considered one of the nation’s most successful examples of intensive support, much of it nonacademic, for underprepared students. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (3/10/2017)
A former congresswoman from South Dakota will lead Augustana University, and Central Michigan University’s athletics director will be vice president for athletics at the University of Arizona. -
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News
5 Tactics to Help Remedial Students
Learning communities and other approaches can make the crucial difference. -
The Review
What Colleges Should Know About Students’ Borrowing Patterns
There is consensus on the need for changes, if not on the details of the best loan-repayment policies. -
The Review
Should Scientists Compromise? First, Define Your Terms
Facing attacks on their research mission, scientists who serve with integrity and purpose can demonstrate the economic and social benefits of their work to the public. -
News
Highest Representation of Racial and Ethnic Groups at Liberal-Arts Colleges, Fall 2015
Although minority students are underrepresented at liberal-arts colleges over all, some individual colleges serve a substantial share of students from a particular racial or ethnic group. -
Government
Trump’s Wild Ride
On issues like immigration, free speech, and transgender rights, the president’s first month in office has proved a whirlwind for higher ed. -
The Review
Stained by Slavery
How Craig Steven Wilder became a one-man truth-and-reconciliation commission on colleges and slavery. -
News
Executive Order Falls Short of Some HBCU Leaders’ Hopes
While several college leaders had wanted to see an “aspirational” funding goal, they welcomed the president’s focus on their institutions as a step in the right direction. -
News
Host a White Supremacist, Risk Chaos From Anarchists
Lacy MacAuley, a prominent anarchist activist with ties to “black bloc” militants, predicts more civil unrest intended to shut down campus speakers. -
Research
Weak Weed and Red Tape: Marijuana Research Is Slow Going
More than half of the states have legalized medical marijuana, but researchers say they are still limited in their efforts to test its health benefits. -
News
Optional Student Fees? In Wisconsin, Students Are Divided on the Idea
Gov. Scott Walker’s recent budget proposal would allow students to opt out of paying specific student fees. Some students like the idea, while others fear their organizations will go out of business. -
Academic Freedom
Through Petitions, Professors Exercise a ‘Special Duty to Speak Out’
Over the past year they’ve signed open letters on climate change, immigration, academic freedom, and college controversies. Do their efforts make any difference? -
The Review
A Study That Released Me From Myself
Taking an interest in shyness helped assuage the self-preoccupation that comes with it. -
News
Colleges Try to Ease Immigrant Students’ Stress as Government Steps Up Deportations
Steps colleges are taking include offering additional counseling, providing legal-aid services, and creating spaces where students can share their frustrations and fears, or simply vent. -
News
The Alumni Colleges Aren’t Bragging About: Members of Trump’s Inner Circle
When, if ever, is it OK for an alma mater to speak out against one of its graduates? -
The Review
Amherst’s Problems Are Society’s Problems
Divisions of race, class, gender, and athletics — described in a recent Chronicle article — are hardly limited to the Massachusetts institution, writes its president. -
News
Professor Who Urged an Election Recount Thinks Trump Won, but Voting Integrity Still Concerns Him
“The 2016 election is pretty well settled,” says J. Alex Halderman, “but I am extremely worried about what is going to happen in 2018 and 2020.” -
News
Thinking Beyond Best Practices to Achieve Gender-Inclusive Campuses
The author of a recent book on transgender college students worries about Trump’s rollback of Obama-era protections and advocates moving beyond “best practices” for inclusion. -
News
Meet the Math Professor Who’s Fighting Gerrymandering With Geometry
Moon Duchin has helped create a program to train mathematicians to be expert witnesses in court cases over redrawn electoral districts. She explains why it’s “the right moment” to pursue this new approach. -
Science
Job-Killing Computerization Sets Its Sights on the University Researcher
At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, scientists heard warnings about the threats to American workers posed by computerized automation. -
Research
Russia Scholars Hope for an End to Their Field’s Bear Market
Russian studies has watched its funding and student interest decline over the past two decades. Could President Putin’s meddling in the presidential election inspire a resurgence? -
News
‘March for Science’ Organizer Says It’s About the Public, Not the Scientists
Science supporters are marching not just to demand funding and evidence-based research in policies, but also to promote awareness about what scientists do.
