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Public Colleges
Regional Publics Cast Wider Nets and Rethink Retention
The universities aren’t aggressively recruiting in faraway states, but they are reaching beyond traditional boundaries and trying other strategies to hit enrollment goals. -
Public Colleges
Where Does the Regional State University Go From Here?
Reeling from financial crises, the workhorse of public education is being reshaped on the fly. -
News
1990: The Fate of a ‘Lost Generation’ of Scholars
Long before the term “alt-ac” was known, some Ph.D.s found work outside academe after years of fruitless job-hunting at colleges. -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
Among the topics are working conditions for campus custodians, and the impact on college women of having “helicopter,” “bystander,” or “paramedic” parents. -
News
Large Community-College System in Arizona Gets Its First Female and Latina Chancellor
Maricopa Community Colleges’ new chief says she plans to reach out to new populations and create stronger ties with businesses. -
News
The Week: What You Need to Know About the Past 7 Days
Bathroom Brawl Chances are pretty good that if you’re reading this, you may be a regular user of bathrooms on a college campus. Even so, they may not be a topic you’ve spent much time thinking about. You go in, do what you need to do, wash your hands, leave. Unless someone in another stall takes a… -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’
A 12-volume novel on the social history of London reminds a university president of the value of the arts and humanities. -
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News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (5/27/2016)
Top Chief Executives Bethany College (Kan.), William Jones Central European University (Hungary), Michael Ignatieff Denver School of Nursing, Cathy Maxwell Finger Lakes Community College, Robert Nye Foothill College, Thuy Thi Nguyen Maricopa Community Colleges, Maria Harper-Marinick Milwaukee… -
News
Deadlines (5/27/2016)
Awards and prizes June 1: Humanities. The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council is accepting nominations for its Outstanding Archives Award, which recognizes the outstanding efforts in archives and records work in Georgia. The organization has twelve different award categories for individuals… -
The Review
Want to Beat ISIS? Try Poetry and Negotiation
Philippe-Joseph Salazar spent a year and a half studying ISIS propaganda. His takeaway: Let’s cut our losses and negotiate. -
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The Review
The Scientist Who Talks to ISIS
An unorthodox anthropologist goes face to face with the enemy. -
Graduate Students
Building a Better ‘Bridge’ to the Ph.D.
An HBCU works with a top research university to help minority students transition from the master’s. -
Campus Safety
‘Yes’ to Sex? Students Consider What That Looks and Sounds Like
The standard of “affirmative consent” in sexual encounters has spread to many campuses, but students are still trying to figure out how to apply it. -
Campus Safety
As Consent Rules Change, Big Questions Come to the Surface
Hundreds of colleges and a few states have adopted policies requiring affirmative consent. An unusual conference in Texas highlighted moral and philosophical objections to the new approach. -
The Review
Colleges Shouldn’t Have to Deal With Copyright Monitoring
In a long-running lawsuit, three academic publishers have asked for an injunction that would require Georgia State University to closely regulate all faculty uploads to course websites. -
Leadership
What Happened Before Burlington College Threw In the Towel
Yves Bradley, chair of the college’s board, describes attempts to save the college — including a last-ditch proposal to merge with another institution — and what it was like to decide that time had finally run out. -
Campus Safety
How Bias Training Works in One Campus Police Department
Michigan State University has begun a series of mandatory workshops for police officers to confront issues of fairness. -
Election 2016
The Life of ‘The Party Decides’
Four political-science professors contemplate the improbable rise and fall of an obscure academic text in the time of Trump. -
Backgrounder
How George Mason Became Koch’s Academic Darling
Through his foundation, the billionaire libertarian Charles G. Koch has given millions to the university. For some faculty members, that raises concerns about his influence. -
Government
Early Evidence: The College Scorecard Made a Difference, but Only for Some Groups of Students
New research finds that the government’s college-comparison tool had an impact, but that it was concentrated among advantaged students. -
Students
Behind Some Campus Protests, a Team of Paid Professionals
An online petition site is changing how some student activists operate by offering them free coaching, advice on how to “optimize” their demands, and even protest posters. -
On Leadership
Video: Why a ‘Big-Picture Education’ Has Never Been More Important
Carol Geary Schneider, who will retire in June from the presidency of the Association of American Colleges & Universities, describes what we know about a high-quality education and its greatest threats. -
The Leadership Dilemma
At the U. of Missouri, Searching for President Everything
After protests rocked its flagship campus, the system is seeking an executive who possesses a broad range of qualifications. The question, one faculty leader asked, “is whether any human alive can meet all of them.” -
The Review
Campus Tour Guides Should Know the Facts About Sexual Assault
“We handle it really well” is not the answer a mother and daughter were looking for. -
Teaching
The TEDification of the Large Lecture
Oregon State University is among colleges that are redesigning arena classrooms and bringing higher production values to how they use them, to help keep students engaged. -
Faculty
Student Activists Tell Colleges: To Improve Racial Climate, Look Hard at Tenure
At Rutgers University and elsewhere, they are raising questions about how race factors into tenure and promotion — and, in some cases, advocating for scholars whose bids were denied. -
The Graduate Adviser
Let Them Read Our Recommendations
Why graduate students should be allowed to see the letters we write on their behalf. -
On Leadership
Video: Bringing an Anchor Institution’s Resources to a Troubled Community
Jay A. Perman, president of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, talks about how his institution worked to help the city before the recent unrest there, and how it has intervened to help at-risk youth before they reach college age.