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2015 Influence List
Trigger-Warning Catalyst: Bailey Loverin
She helped make trigger warnings a campus debate. -
2015 Influence List
Headhunters: Parker Executive Search
The firm has professionalized hiring and injected more secrecy, too. -
2015 Influence List
Coalition Builder: James G. Nondorf
He pulled together a group of colleges to rethink how students apply. -
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2015 Influence List
Sexism Fighter: Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
She spurred a rallying cry for women in science. -
2015 Influence List
Research Watchdog: Brian Nosek
He forced a reckoning with deep problems in science. -
2015 Influence List
Faculty Foe: Scott Walker
He repealed state laws that protected tenure and shared governance. -
2015 Influence List
Sensible Explainer: Susan Dynarski
She translated the economics of higher education for a broad audience. -
2015 Influence List
Small-College Savior: Tracy Stuart
She led an insurgency to keep Sweet Briar College open. -
News
How Staff Scientists, Long Invisible, Could Save Biomedicine
The National Institutes of Health turns toward the “invisible glue” of research universities to help with a glut of postdocs. -
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The Review
A Spectator Who Left Identity Behind
The essay spoke for and through its time, writes the essayist herself. But now she sees that it was rooted in her own relationship to Hollywood. -
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The Review
It’s Not the Same for Women
Its opacity notwithstanding, Mulvey’s theory cleared the way for further challenges to “the look” of others. -
The Review
Academe Must Confront Its Racist Past
Colleges should incorporate the ugly history of bigotry into their curricula. -
The Review
A Richer, Stranger Essay
Four decades later, Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” continues to illuminate. -
The Review
Sadism Still Demands a Story
The players in films may have changed over the past 40 years, but the narrative remains the same. -
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News
Land Conservationist to Lead Alumnae Relations at Sweet Briar
Mary Pope Hutson, the new vice president, was part of a group that sued to keep the women’s college open. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘Consolations’
A book by a poet and marine zoologist inspires a university president to think more deeply about word meanings. -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
Assessing Study Abroad: Theory, Tools, and Practice, edited by Victor Savicki and Elizabeth Brewer (Stylus Publishing; 344 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback). Combines theoretical perspectives with case studies to examine what is achieved by study abroad. Black Men in the Academy: Narratives of… -
Commentary
How Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Spreading Islamophobia
Thanks to educators and pastors, fear of Muslims is steadily taking root in Christian theology. -
The Review
Student Protests, Then and Now
The activism of 50 years ago laid the groundwork for the campus unrest of today. -
Faculty
At U. of Kentucky, Faculty Look to Deepen a Campus Conversation on Race
On many campuses, students, not professors, are the ones pushing for change. -
Courts
A Closer Look at a Comment From Justice Scalia That Sparked Outrage
Justice Antonin Scalia drew widespread condemnation by raising the idea that black students might fare better at “less-advanced” colleges. Scholars have been studying — and debating — the “mismatch” theory he referenced for years. -
Students
‘This Case Shouldn’t Be Here Again’: Activists Outside the Supreme Court on ‘Fisher’ and Race
As the justices heard oral arguments on race-conscious admissions, protesters discussed links between college access and the demonstrations over racial climate that have recently roiled campuses. -
Legal
Supreme Court Laments How Little It Really Knows About Race-Conscious Admissions
In revisiting a challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race, the justices pressed lawyers for data showing whether the policy is necessary. -
Students
Diversity’s Elusive Number: Campuses Strive to Achieve ‘Critical Mass’
Studies suggest that when minorities account for 35 percent of the student body, a campus’s climate improves. But researchers hesitate to endorse a specific figure for diversity goals. -
Campus Safety
‘It’s Like Holding Your Breath': Muslim Campus Leaders Describe a Charged Moment
With many Muslim students fearing for their safety in a contentious political climate, Muslim professors and students say their roles as campus leaders are shifting before their eyes. -
Faculty
With Faculty Diversity on Everyone’s Radar, HBCUs Worry About Losing Scholars
Leaders of historically black colleges say there’s reason to be concerned about professors’ being poached by wealthier institutions. But they can make a convincing case for faculty to stay where they are. -
Students
‘Sometimes I Cry’: a Ground-Level View of Student Poverty
Student hunger and homelessness appear more widespread than many campus leaders had realized. Hattie Elmore, director of a program that helps students at a New York college navigate money and housing problems, talks about the issues she confronts daily. -
Graduate Education
Dearth of Black Ph.D. Recipients Will Complicate Efforts to Diversify Faculty
Colleges face growing pressure to hire more minority professors, but the latest data show little progress in awarding more doctorates to black students. -
First Person
The Professor Is a Drag Queen
How much do we play into the professorial stereotype that our students want us to portray? -
On Leadership
Video: Campus Libraries Rethink Focus as Materials Go Digital
President Sari Feldman of the American Library Association discusses programs that preserve tweets as well as books.