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News
Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Scholars and Students
Correction (2/22/2016, 11:30 a.m.): Because of an editing error, 19 colleges were left off the list of bachelor’s institutions producing the most Fulbright students in 2015-16. The list has been corrected. -
News
Fulbright Seeks More Diverse Pool of Scholars and Students
State Department officials, study-abroad experts, and Fulbright alumni agree: The best way to diversify is through mentoring and word of mouth. -
News
Geoff Marcy’s Downfall
How the astronomer’s case signals a new era of activism against sexual harassment. -
News
Why a Congresswoman Is Pressing Colleges to Do More on Harassment
Academics see themselves as above the law, says Rep. Jackie Speier. Punishing offenders by cutting off their grant money might change that. -
Inequality
2 Keys to Success for Underprivileged Students: When to Start College, and Where to Go
Those who enroll within a semester of earning a high-school diploma are far more likely to earn a college degree or certificate, a study finds. -
The Review
How Many Protests Will It Take to Finally Diversify Our Campuses?
A look back at an essay the author wrote 35 years ago shows that progress has been largely illusory. -
What I’m Reading: ‘Dancer From the Dance’
In an age of trigger warnings, an associate professor wonders if he dares teach a sexually frank gay classic. -
News
Noted Catholic Philosopher Takes Post at Baptist University
John Haldane, who has long taught in Scotland, says he likes the “wide-ranging intellectual conversation” in America. -
The Review
The Moral Absurdity of Denying Financial Aid to Undocumented Students
America is squandering opportunity when it withholds aid from academically qualified students whose parents brought them into the country illegally. -
News
The Week: What You Need to Know About the Past 7 Days
Are federal student-aid programs hopeless? Is Missouri’s Melissa Click? How about Mount St. Mary’s Simon Newman? -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream, by A.J. Angulo (Johns Hopkins University Press; 203 pages; $29.95). Traces the long history of American for-profit colleges and universities, their rapid expansion in recent years, and the abuses that have… -
The Review
Bringing Philosophy to Life
An emphasis on being “right” can drain meaning and vitality from self-reflection. -
The Review
A Professor’s Inner Journey
A lit scholar’s profound psychedelic experience propels him into the theater. -
The Review
The Education of Jonathan Ned Katz
In orienting himself, Jonathan Ned Katz helped orient gay America. -
The Review
How Secular Are Secular Ethics?
Spinoza, Voltaire, Darwin, Marx, secretly inspired by Christianity? Not so fast. -
The Review
How Scientific Celebrity Hurts Science
The veneration of an individual figure is a profound distortion of the collective nature of research. -
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Deadlines (2/26/2016)
Awards and prizes March 1: Health/medicine. Call for nominations for the 2016 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, which recognizes a physician, biomedical scientist, or group of physicians or scientists who have made extraordinary and sustained contributions to… -
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Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (2/26/2016)
Top Chief Executives Alfred University, Mark Zupan Centenary College, David Haney Eastern Michigan University, James Michael Smith Frostburg State University, Ronald Nowaczyk Lake Erie College, Brian Posler North Orange County Community College District, Cheryl Marshall St. Vincent’s College,… -
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1977: Early Gray Hairs for the Professoriate
Federal legislation in 1977 would have let colleges send tenured faculty members on their way at age 65. -
Technology
Librarians Find Themselves Caught Between Journal Pirates and Publishers
Academics are increasingly turning to renegade websites like Sci-Hub to view subscriber-only articles free. The trend is putting librarians in an awkward position. -
The States
Under Fire From Lawmakers, a Flagship Tries to Explain Why Diversity Matters
A state legislative committee will soon investigate what the University of Tennessee at Knoxville does with money earmarked for diversity. How can campus officials persuade lawmakers who appear to be unpersuadable? -
Leadership and Politics
Sanders Campaign Shines Spotlight on a Troubled College Presidency
Jane Sanders, now an advocate for her husband’s presidential bid, took aggressive steps to expand Burlington College as its leader, but it has been on the brink ever since. -
Legal
Antonin Scalia’s Death Probably Won’t Affect ‘Fisher,’ but It Could Change the Future of Affirmative Action
The passing of the sharp-tongued Supreme Court justice doesn’t alter the math of a ruling on the University of Texas at Austin’s policy. The long-term conversation about race-conscious admissions is another story. -
Leadership
How Mount St. Mary’s Chose Simon Newman as Its President
The former private-equity chief executive threw his hat into the ring on the last day applications were accepted, promising to bring national exposure to the Maryland campus. -
Leadership
How 3 Crisis-Communications Experts Would Have Handled the Uproar at Mount St. Mary’s
Many in academe have been quick to criticize Simon P. Newman’s response to the furor on the Maryland campus. Here’s how PR professionals would have done it differently. -
The Review
How Right-Wing Billionaires Infiltrated Higher Education
The secret history of conservative foundations’ plans to co-opt scholars and scholarship. -
Retrenchment
Confronting a ‘New Normal,’ Berkeley Considers Cuts
The university must undertake a major effort to streamline its operations, its chancellor said, even as he acknowledged that some of the changes could be “painful.” -
Career Confidential
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Keep on Script
The job interview is not a spontaneous exchange, it’s a minefield.