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News
Data Could Help Scholars Persuade, if Only They Were Willing to Use It
Companies that exploit personal information could offer a model for researchers who seek to turn their work into meaningful policy. But many scholars are wary. -
News
Next Chief of Canada’s Brock U. Is Known as Social-Justice Advocate
Wendy Cukier’s higher-education experience, and her work on gun control, appealed to the university’s board. -
News
Is University Research Missing What Matters Most?
As a nation, we’re getting good at turning professors’ work into marketable products. But is that enough for some of our society’s biggest problems? -
Commentary
What Leaders Can Learn From Teaching Undergraduates
By listening and affirming, a college president moves his role from teaching to learning. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘Annapurna’
Maurice Herzog’s book makes a university chaplain consider how students are like climbers. -
The Review
In Defense of Theology
To consider divinity and humanity is to ponder the power of language itself. -
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The Review
Dear Sleazy Professor …
That student you just creeped out is writing about you on the web. -
News
What It Might Take to Tackle the Most Important Problems
Here’s a sampling of experts’ suggestions of what universities, governments, journals, and private funders of research could do to ensure that they’re making the greatest possible efforts toward solving society’s most pressing issues. -
News
1973: Early Efforts to Diversify Faculties Prompt Resentment
Some black academics took umbrage at what they saw as the relatively rapid progress being made by women on campus. -
News
As Sports Programs Get Richer, Few Give Much for Academics
Athletic departments cover millions of dollars in scholarships for players, but set aside a tiny share of their revenue for academic programs. -
Governance
Penn State’s Abuse Scandal Still Sharply Divides Its Board
Several trustees, highly skeptical of a report that condemned top university officials for covering up Jerry Sandusky’s crimes, are at loggerheads with those who are ready to move on. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (1/29/2016)
Top Chief Executives Maine Community College, Lisa Larson Eastern Marygrove College, Elizabeth Burns Montgomery County Community College, Kevin Pollock Pitzer College, Melvin Oliver State Center Community College District, Dale Paul Parnell Jr. University of Maine at Fort Kent, John Short… -
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Deadlines (1/29/2016)
Awards and prizes February 1: Arts. Nominations for Northwestern University’s Nemmers Prize in Music Composition will be accepted from October 1 through February 1, 2016. The prize carries an award of $100,000 and is open to those with outstanding career achievements. It is international in focus… -
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News
The Week: What You Need to Know About the Past 7 Days
A student newspaper in Maryland breaks a big story; a president in Ohio rejects students’ demands; and Trump tries to talk about the Bible with students in Virginia. -
The Review
How Intellectuals Create a Public
They offer arguments that produce and galvanize new audiences. -
The Review
Watch What You Say
The campus climate of fear imperils academe as an incubator of provocative ideas. -
Finance
For Illinois’s Public Colleges, No State Money Means Plenty of Pain
As a monthslong budget deadlock drags on, college officials say it’s only a matter of time before some institutions will have to restructure themselves — or close. -
Admissions
Wanted: High-Character Students
Dozens of colleges have endorsed a plan to promote — and reward — “ethical engagement” in admissions. Praise for the campaign, though, is hardly universal. -
Global
How a Little-Known Program for Foreign Students Became Embroiled in a Hot-Button National Debate
A legal fight over workplace training has left thousands of students in limbo and could threaten the international appeal of American universities. -
Race on Campus
Dearth of Faculty Diversity Leaves King Award Recipient ‘Neither Thrilled Nor Honored’
Naomi Zack says she’s embarrassed by the lack of minorities among senior faculty members at the University of Oregon. -
Curriculum
From a Red House Off Campus, Georgetown Tries to Reinvent Itself
The effort’s successes and failures hold lessons for other colleges interested in transformation from within. -
Commentary
Academic Freedom Has Limits. Where They Are Isn’t Always Clear.
For one thing, campus speech rights are unequally distributed among the tenured and everybody else. -
Faculty
Lawmaker Calls Out a Professor — and Colleges — on Sexual Harassment
Institutions need to speak up about faculty members who violate misconduct policies and not pass problem employees along to other institutions, says Rep. Jackie Speier. -
The States
For a Slot at a 4-Year University, Some North Carolina Students Could Soon Need a Community-College Degree
At the behest of Republican lawmakers, the state’s university system is studying a plan that would route applicants seen as less prepared to two-year institutions. -
Faculty
When Joining a Faculty Means Taking a Leap of Faith
A controversy at Wheaton College, in Illinois, has some aspiring academics rethinking the advice to apply everywhere, but religious colleges remain confident they can screen out bad fits. -
Technology
Money-Back Guarantees Come to Online Courses
The MOOC provider Udacity pledges that graduates of its four most marketable courses will earn a job in their field within six months of completing the program. -
Career Confidential
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Timing Is Everything
How to juggle job interviews and campus visits and stay focused and sane. -
The Review
Removing Racist Symbols Isn’t a Denial of History
On the contrary, it acknowledges that history is irreducibly contradictory, bloody, and shot through with injustice. -
On Leadership
Video: Calculating the Return on Diversity
Benjamin Ola. Akande, president of Westminster College (Mo.), is less interested in singing “Kumbaya” than in seeing results.