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A Higher-Ed Needler Finds Its Moment
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, long dismissed in academe as a relic of the culture wars, has a resonant message for disruption-prone college boards. Not everyone is happy about that. -
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At Columbia U., Philadelphia’s Ex-Mayor Seeks Solutions for Knotty Urban Issues
Michael A. Nutter says he was attracted to the university, in part, because his daughter studies there. -
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4-Part Plan Seeks to Fix Mathematics Education
The way colleges teach math has long been criticized as outdated. Now a new player is fostering fresh approaches. -
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The Week: What You Need to Know About the Past Seven Days
Students protest from Ole Miss to Princeton, the Antonin Scalia School of Law changes its name, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security creates a fake college. -
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What I’m Reading: ‘It Can’t Happen Here’
In Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel, the suppression of speech begins on campuses. What’s the chance that could still happen here? -
The Review
Are Financially Desperate Law Schools Using a ‘Reverse Robin Hood Scheme’ to Stay Afloat?
Making disadvantaged students subsidize the attendance of their more privileged peers is as regressive as it is indefensible. -
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Activist Group Unites via Social Media
The Black Liberation Collective uses online platforms the way the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee used the black press in the 1960s. -
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Sanjay Sarma Rethinks the Professor’s Role
For MIT’s point person on digital learning, the best approach is to persuade colleagues through engagement and research. -
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‘American Panorama’ Uses Digital Tools to Remap History
The free online atlas, developed at the University of Richmond, presents social developments in a compellingly interactive way. -
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Mary Goldberg Helps Disabled Veterans Find STEM Careers
At the University of Pittsburgh, she brings the science of education to the field of rehabilitation technology. -
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Gail Mellow Matches Students With Start-Ups
As president of LaGuardia Community College, in New York, she has sought out unlikely partners to help students get jobs. -
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Brandon Stell Is the Vigilante of Scientific Publishing
The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught. -
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Mark Milliron Arms Students With Data
As a co-founder of Civitas Learning, he provides a cloud-based platform that helps users avoid “analysis paralysis” and use data to help students succeed. -
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A Pedagogy That Spans Semesters
Digital tools like an open-source timeline builder allow the work of one group of students to enhance the learning of the next. -
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How a Google Spreadsheet Saved My Literature Class
Technology, responsible for so much mental absentia among millennials, can actually deepen their presence in the classroom. -
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Douglas Rushkoff Questions Technology
He says the prevailing mind-set behind digital companies is how to sell them for lots of money, not how to make them sustainable or benefit their workers. -
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Dror Ben-Naim Puts Digital Power in Professors’ Hands
A new network will allow college instructors to share and exchange digital tools and the lessons they create. -
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A Farewell to Adverbs
According to an online editing tool that advertises its ability to make Hemingways of us all, Papa’s prose wasn’t so hot. -
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Contemplate Your Email
A professor asks students to observe their use of tech and make healthy and effective changes based on those observations. -
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What the E-Book Should Be
Today’s college classroom sits at a crossroads between the principally print past and a print-plus future. -
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It’s Not Just About Teaching Online. It’s About Teaching, Period.
Faculty members who resist moving their classrooms online may be expressing a fundamental concern about preserving their traditional roles. -
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Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (4/15/2016)
Top Chief Executives Auburn University at Montgomery Carl Stockton Central Lakes College, Hara Charlier College of St. Scholastica, Colette McCarrick Geary Marymount California University, Lucas Lamadrid New Mexico Junior College, Kelvin Sharp North Carolina Community College system, James… -
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Deadlines (4/15/2016)
Awards and prizes May 15: Humanities. Call for nominations: The American Historical Association recognizes a wide variety of distinguished historical work, which can take the form of an exceptional book in the field, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, and even on film. The… -
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1984: In the Culture Wars, a Volley at Higher Education
William J. Bennett, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, said colleges were failing at their “great task of transmitting a culture.” -
Marketing
How a Huge University Promotes Its Small-College Appeal
Arizona State offers several small-campus environments in addition to the big one everyone knows about. But getting prospective students to understand that can be a challenge. -
Findings
The Researchers Who Sank a Bogus Canvassing Study Have Replicated Some of Its Findings
David Broockman and Joshua Kalla exposed major flaws in a celebrated piece of political-science research. Their new paper builds on that debunked project — but this time, they say, the data are real. -
Campus Climate
2 New Diversity Deans Take On Ivy League Challenges
The new officials at Yale and Princeton hope to bring about structural changes on their campuses. But first they’ll do a lot of listening. -
Academic Culture
Tenure Rights and the Rise of Title IX: a Looming Culture Clash
The controversy over sexual-harassment cases at Berkeley highlights the larger battle over faculty protections and the call for a swift conclusion of complaints. -
Campus Climate
‘Trump’ Chalkings Trigger a New Debate Over Speech and Sensitivity
The candidate’s name, scrawled on sidewalks, has left some students feeling threatened. Colleges are now grappling with how to respond to such concerns. -
Students
A Thin Line Divides Engaging With Activists and Alienating Them
Paying lip service to complaints without acting on them risks arousing student anger. -
Students
When States Tie Money to Colleges’ Performance, Low-Income Students May Suffer
Some observers have worried that states’ efforts to make colleges more efficient could box out less-advantaged students. New research suggests they may be right. -
Campus Climate
In Sticking With Woodrow Wilson, Princeton Seeks to Contextualize His Legacy
The university announced it would not remove the former president’s name from two prominent spots on its campus, and set forth a series of diversity initiatives. -
Technology
3 Ways Professors Can Balance Teaching Practical and Theoretical Skills
Faculty members share their techniques for keeping pace with the changing demands of higher education. -
Faculty
Unionizing Pays Big Dividend for Professors at Regional Public Universities
An unusual study of faculty compensation finds gaps based on union status, proximity to cities, and institutional size. -
Commentary
Why I Quit Yale Basketball at the Top of My Game
Coaches and administrators should be challenging college athletics’ culture of misogyny, racism, and social injustice. -
Advice
When Plagiarism Is a Plea for Help
Instead of failing students for intellectual dishonesty, shouldn’t we try to help them not fail? -
On Leadership
Video: Community-College Advocate Urges 4-Year Colleges to Do More to Help Students Transfer
The best way to lend support to higher education is to “help colleges do what they need to do,” says Josh Wyner, executive director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute.