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The Review
The Faulty Foundation of American Colleges
We must redesign college education with individuality in mind. -
Backgrounder
Poor Kids, Limited Horizons
The support they need to overcome barriers to aspirational careers comes too little, too late. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘Billion-Dollar Ball’
A book on the big-money culture of college football is a cautionary tale for the entire academic enterprise, a professor says. -
News
Scientific Collaborators Pair Up to Lead Scripps Research Institute
Steve Kay says he and Peter Schultz want to bring discoveries made by scientists “further down the value chain.” -
News
Science-Diversity Efforts Connect Grad Students With Mentors
The National Institutes of Health, for one, is building a national database to link minority students to informal advisers at other universities or within companies, with plans for training in “culturally responsive mentoring.” -
The Review
Building a New Research-University System
Universities should join forces for programs that tap their combined strengths. -
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The Review
Desperate to Be Liked
Professors are tempted to do almost anything to engage and inspire their students. -
The Review
Climate Change Is a Social Issue
Too many efforts to stem global warming focus exclusively on the hard sciences. -
The Review
Transparency in College Admissions Is Key to a Fair Policy on Race
Colleges should be allowed to use preferences for underrepresented minorities — and to do so explicitly. -
The Review
Letter: General Education Is ‘a Shared Responsibility’
Cross-disciplinary work should increase understanding of, and respect for, one another’s fields. -
News
The Week: What you need to know about the past seven days.
In the State of the Union Address, the president sounds upbeat. On Wheaton College’s campus, some students sound distressed. And David Bowie’s music still sounds rebellious. -
News
Deadlines (1/22/2016)
Awards and prizes January 22: Professional fields. The Society of Professional Journalists is accepting entries for the Mark of Excellence Awards, which honors student journalists. Entries are welcome for print, radio, television, and online collegiate journalism. The contest is open to anyone… -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (1/22/2016)
Top Chief Executives Cazenovia College, Ronald Chesbrough Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus, Donna Imhoff Johnson & Wales University-North Miami, Larry Rice Kalamazoo College, Jorge Gonzalez National University, David Andrews NewSchool of Architecture and Design, Marvin Malecha Pennsylvania… -
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The Review
What the Wheaton Controversy Means for Colleges’ Religious Identity
The case of Larycia Hawkins resonates beyond the Illinois campus because it’s a cautionary tale for all institutions, faith-based and secular, that seek to protect their core beliefs. -
Publishing
As an Open-Access Megajournal Cedes Some Ground, a Movement Gathers Steam
Last year PLOS ONE published 10 percent fewer papers than it did two years ago. Its editors say that’s a sign that more major publishers are taking open-access publications seriously. -
Academic Freedom
Melissa Click’s Inbox
The 12 kinds of email a professor got after she became a national spectacle. -
Students
Many Black Students Don’t Seek Help for Mental-Health Concerns, Survey Finds
The national poll sheds light on racial disparities between students who feel prepared for college and those who don’t. -
Commentary
When Ex-Prisoners Share Their Stories With Students
If we expand service-learning projects to include collaboration, what new types of learning might we discover? -
Faculty
College Wrestles With Controversy Over Its Response to Professor’s Religious Views
A dispute at Wheaton College of Illinois that started with a Facebook post about Christianity and Islam could end in a professor’s dismissal. For other faculty members at the evangelical Christian institution, that raises troubling questions. -
Government
Chill on Funding Still Limits Gun-Violence Research
Three years ago, President Obama directed federal agencies to conduct or sponsor research on gun violence. The flow of those dollars to such projects is still small, but signs are growing that other groups are interested in supporting the work. -
First Person
It’s Just a Job, Right?
This is why professors who quit academe can’t stop talking about it. -
On Leadership
Video: Underrepresented Minorities on the Faculty
Bernard J. Milano, president of the Ph.D. Project — a nonprofit organization committed to diversifying the faculty ranks at the nation’s business schools — talks about how the Ph.D. Project works, its track record, and why faculty diversity matters.