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Backgrounder
Evangelical Colleges’ Diversity Problem
The sector has long struggled to reconcile tradition and diversity. -
The Review
What Black Campus Activists Can Learn From the Freedom Summer of 1964
Students of color often say they are tired of explaining their situation to others. But dialogue is the only way forward. -
The Review
From Nowhere, and Everywhere
Academics are a wandering tribe, and may be the better for it. -
The Review
The Myth of a ‘Second Gilded Age’
The flawed metaphor reflects a misunderstanding of history and a lack of economic imagination. -
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The Review
A Muslim Rift in Academe
How a Duke imam became a lightning rod in the campus Israel wars. -
The Review
What Makes a Story
An understanding of intellectual disability can transform how we read. -
The Review
Yes, Campuses Should Be Safe Spaces — for Debate
Our students have grown up with the toxic free-for-all of social media. We need to provide examples of civilized discourse. -
News
1974: Ferpa’s Birth Puts College Administrators on Edge
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, in all its complexity, has become part of the fabric of campus operations. -
News
The Week: What You Need to Know About the Past 7 Days
It seems 2015 was a good year for raising money, and for raising hackles, but not a good year for Jeffery Amherst or John C. Calhoun. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘The Need and the Blessing of Prayer’
When the goals at a religious college get especially challenging, a campus executive turns to a book on prayer. -
News
President-to-Be Sees Advantages for Small Colleges in Efforts to Diversify
Jorge Gonzalez says their admissions officers have more time to consider how applicants “have risen” from their circumstances. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (2/5/2016)
Top Chief Executives Westminster College (Pa.), Kathy Brittain Richardson Sonoma State University, Judy Sakaki Taylor University, Lowell Haines Appointments Paul Alivisatos, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to vice chancellor for research at the University of California at… -
News
Deadlines (2/5/2016)
Awards and prizes February 16: Academic affairs. Active Minds invites applications for the 2016 Active Minds Healthy Campus Award, which celebrates leadership, innovation, collaboration, and excellence in campus health. The award recognizes U.S. colleges and universities that are prioritizing… -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge, by Joanna Williams (Palgrave Macmillan; 224 pages; $30). Focuses on British and American higher education in a defense of the fundamental importance of academic freedom to the pursuit of knowledge; topics include the… -
Technology
Computer Science, Meet Humanities: in New Majors, Opposites Attract
Stanford University sees such integration as a way to bring in students who are drawn to the arts but feel that they need computing skills for their careers. -
Students
Students’ Demands Go Beyond Black and White
Many of the recent protests over campus diversity have focused on the concerns of black students. But Latino and Asian students are raising their voices, too, and their interests can differ. -
Marketing
Oregon’s Step Back From a Branding Contract Doesn’t Mean Branding Is Dead
The University of Oregon grabbed headlines by ending a multimillion-dollar branding campaign. But such efforts to build a national brand are far from over at Oregon and elsewhere. -
Faculty
A University Softens a Plan to Cut Tenured Faculty, but Professors Remain Wary
Facing a dire budget situation, Western Illinois University had proposed to lay off more than 40 professors. It has taken a dozen tenured faculty members off the list, but that hasn’t allayed concerns about its process or goals. -
Academic Freedom
How Christian Colleges Might Pick Their Battles More Wisely
The author of a new book on Christian colleges and academic freedom says the institutions could uphold their faith without unnecessary clashes with instructors. -
Athletics
Colleges Raised $1.2 Billion in Donations for Sports in 2015
A push for new facilities and increased aid for athletes has fueled a boom in gifts. But some donors are growing weary of the appeals. -
Technology
Does Technology Ever Reduce the Costs of Teaching?
The Chronicle spoke with three experts about ways colleges can use technology to reduce instructional costs. -
Faculty
What It’s Like to Teach Islam 101 When Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Runs High
Heated debates about terrorism and immigration are making many Muslims wary. The charged climate is a challenging backdrop for a course meant to introduce undergraduates to the religion. -
Page Proof
Scholars Talk Writing: Laura Kipnis
“Ideally you want to be an id on the first draft and a superego on the second.” -
Leadership
Faced With Extreme Demands From Defiant Protesters, What’s a President to Do?
Talking to student activists often tempers their outrage, and can make for progress on campus issues, say presidents who have been there. -
Government
New Book Accuses Education Dept. of Fudging Numbers on Student-Loan Defaults
Mary Lyn Hammer, who runs a default-management company, argues that the agency massaged data to make for-profit institutions look bad and direct lending look better. That’s not the case, critics say. But Republican lawmakers are listening. -
Online Education
Why More Colleges Are Emulating Deals Like the ASU-Starbucks Alliance
Student-acquisition costs are lower and retention rates are higher for institutions that team up with companies to give tuition discounts to workers. -
Faculty
Prominent Medieval Scholar’s Blog on ‘Feminist Fog’ Sparks an Uproar
A post that attacks feminism and paints men as victims has been widely condemned in the field as an unwelcome window back to a time when it was less open to women.