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Best-Teacher Awards Are Bunk
They distract us from colleges’ systemic failures.
At UVa, a Clash Over Whether to Stand Back or Stand Up
Seeking the safest course, administrators hoped that professors, students, and alumni would steer clear of the white nationalists’ march. But some felt duty-bound to confront what they saw as evil.
How One White Nationalist Became — and Remains — a Thorn in Texas A&M’s Side
Preston Wiginton doesn’t have an especially strong connection to the university: He dropped out after taking classes for a year. But he’s made it his mission to force extreme racial politics upon College Station.
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As Support Grows for Ditching Confederate Statues, Colleges Weigh Their Options
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UVa Employee, Who Clashed With White Supremacists on Campus, Suffers a Stroke
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For UVa, Racist Rally Dredges Up Uncomfortable Legacies
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The KKK Once Gave UVa $1,000. These Professors Want the University to Admit It.
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Did UVa Miss Signs of Looming Violence?
How Universities Embolden White Nationalists
Professors should be wary of unconsciously endorsing white victimhood.
A Professor Says She Was Penalized for an Instructor's Tweet
The controversy that cost an adjunct a job offer at Montclair State University affected a professor who didn't hire him but would have supervised him.
How Colleges Are Strangling Liberalism
An obsession with identity has made students less likely to engage with a world beyond themselves.
Supreme Tension
Political battles over high-court nominees date back not to 1987 and Robert Bork, a legal historian argues, but to LBJ and Nixon.
What to Do With a Man on Horseback
Don’t remove problematic statues, like that of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville. Challenge them, in the service of history.
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The Almanac of Higher Education 2017-18
View 80 tables on faculty members, administrators, students, and finances, along with data on the demographics, enrollment, graduation rates, faculty pay, and tuition costs for each state and the United States, and more.
The Professor Is In: Is It Too Soon to Talk to Publishers?
When should doctoral students start approaching a book editor about their dissertations?
‘Don’t Take Our Failures Personally’
And other advice for professors from developmental-writing students.
Faculty and Staff Salaries at More Than 4,700 Colleges
Browse the data by state, sector, and Carnegie classification and break out salaries by institution, rank, and gender.
Track Federal Sexual-Assault Investigations
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Small Changes in Teaching: The First 5 Minutes of Class
Four quick ways to shift students’ attention from life’s distractions to your course content.