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The Two-Year Track
How to Build a Twitter Following — and Why You Should
A primer on tweeting for those who have never used Twitter or have underused it. -
BACKGROUNDER
The Uncertain Path to Full Professor
Vague criteria may signal to some faculty members, especially women and minorities, that a promotion to the top is out of their reach. -
The Review
Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities
Remarkable opportunities exist at the intersection of the two fields. It is time to seize them. -
News
The Week: What You Need to Know About the Past Seven Days
The Mount St. Mary’s U. president who spoke of drowning bunnies fired faculty members last week — and drew searing criticism. -
News
Sociologist Becomes Inaugural Chair in Transgender Studies
Aaron Devor, who founded the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, was named to the trailblazing post there. -
The Review
In Praise of Jargon
Scholarly writing’s an easy target, but its fairness and rigor are necessary and wondrous. -
The Review
To Be a Black Professor at Yale
Young students gave him more hope than his honesty had given them. -
The Review
When Critics Become Professors
Academe offers art shelter from the marketplace — but on strange, prickly terms. -
The Review
A Haunting History of Incarceration
The earliest known prison memoir by an African-American writer shouldn’t be overfreighted with historical implication. -
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News
1976: Computers in the Classroom: the Pioneer Era
In 1976, “two-way communication between student and machine” was a novelty worth noting. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (2/19/2016)
Top Chief Executives Capital University, Elizabeth Paul Daymar College at Bowling Green, Bruce Wilkerson Geneva College, Calvin Troup John F. Kennedy University, Debra Bean Lewis University, David Livingston Marist College, David Yellen Ohio Technical College, Bill Hantl Stanford University, Marc… -
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News
Deadlines (2/19/2016)
Awards and prizes February 25: Humanities. Applications are being accepted for the Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize for Medieval Studies. This prize is awarded to a deserving doctoral dissertation in any field of medieval studies. The dissertation must be written by a Canadian or by someone who is… -
News
What I’m Reading: Articles About Cultural Appropriation
The stir over a museum’s “Kimono Wednesdays” gave a lecturer a way to engage students in discussions about stereotyping. -
News
Today’s Freshman Class Is the Most Likely to Protest in Half a Century
An annual survey, now in its 50th year, found that first-year students of all races reported being more likely to take part in demonstrations than just a year before. -
The Review
An Appalling Breach of Faith at Mount St. Mary’s
Disrespecting students and trampling the rights of faculty members at the Maryland university contradict the mission of Roman Catholic higher education. -
News
What Obama’s 2017 Budget Means for Higher Ed
The president’s final budget proposal includes a boost for community colleges and gives science researchers reason to worry. Here’s a look at the key items. -
Teaching
Flagging Disciplines Reclaim Their Relevance
Facing stagnant enrollment, some foreign-language departments remake the curriculum to demonstrate their value to students and colleges. They may have lessons for other beleaguered programs as well. -
Faculty
Fallout at Mount St. Mary’s Spreads as Scholars Protest Firings
The American Association of University Professors and free-speech groups are among those condemning the university’s abrupt dismissal of two faculty members this week. -
Technology
Boom in Online Tutoring Means Another Cost for Many Students
One student’s perspective: “It’s Thursday night and you have two big homeworks due Friday. Your friends are going out. You’re just like, I just want to finish this, I don’t really care how this gets done.” -
Students
A Closer Look at 7 Common Requirements in Resolved Federal Sex-Assault Inquiries
As Title IX complaints have multiplied, the government has issued more-expansive mandates for the colleges it has investigated. -
Faculty
U. of Wisconsin Faculty Members Fear Gutting of Tenure
Faculty leaders are criticizing proposed policies that were devised to replace job protections stripped out of state law. They say the proposals leave professors far too vulnerable to layoffs. -
News
How Many French-Literature Degrees Is Kentucky Really Paying For?
Gov. Matthew G. Bevin questioned whether such students should be “subsidized by the taxpayers like engineers.” But little of the state’s money supports students in any foreign-language study at all. -
Faculty
When a Faculty Candidate Has Been Investigated for Harassment, What’s a Hiring Committee to Do?
That’s a thorny question, as the resignation of a molecular biologist at the University of Chicago demonstrates. Without hard evidence or standard practices, professors struggle to balance the presumption of innocence with a desire to protect their own grad students. -
On Leadership
Video: How to Make Public Engagement a Priority at Research Universities
Public universities should deepen their engagement with their communities and make those partnerships part of their core academic missions, says Robert J. Jones, president of the University at Albany. -
The Graduate Adviser
Inside the Graduate-Admissions Process
A study finds the pervasive misuse of test scores and too much homophily.