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News
How Minority Students’ Experiences Differ: What Research Reveals
For one thing, they are more likely to want careers that serve their communities. -
News
To Avoid More Scandals, Cautious Departments Swap Drinking for Hiking
After sex-harassment scandals, increased vigilance has prompted new rules for interactions between professors and graduate students. -
The Week: What You Need to Know About the Past 7 Days
The U.S. Supreme Court called race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin “reasoned” and “principled.” The governor of Kentucky called the University of Louisville Board of Trustees “dysfunctional.” And many people called Pat Summitt the greatest coach ever. -
Diversity
To Diversify the Faculty, Start Here
How one university is changing a sink-or-swim culture to broaden the appeal of a Ph.D. -
News
What Minority-Serving Institutions Can Teach Other Colleges
They know a lot about creating a sense of belonging for people from underrepresented groups, says Marybeth Gasman. -
From the Archives
Trump: The College Years
At Fordham and Penn, the presidential candidate would have studied Islam, seen the first coeds on campus, and skimmed the dull parts. -
News
New Leader Takes Over at Harvard Art Museums
Martha Tedeschi will direct the museums, which recently went through an architectural transformation. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘Big Magic’
A writing professor is captivated by a book that tells students their dreams of a creative life need not be derailed. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (7/8/2016)
Top Chief Executives Briar Cliff University, Hamid Shirvani Franklin Pierce University, Kim Mooney Lamar Institute of Technology, Lonnie Howard Marywood University, Sister Mary Persico Pamlico Community College, Jim Ross Richland Community College, Cristobal Valdez Schreiner University, Charlie… -
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Selected New Books on Higher Education
Topics include college for people with autism and the reimagination of academic libraries. -
News
Deadlines (7/8/2016)
Awards and prizes July 31: Business/management (Faculty/Research). The Journal of Investment Consulting is accepting submissions for its 2016 Academic Paper Competition on topics that examine research relevant to investment consulting and private-wealth management. The competition is open to… -
News
1996: Fund-Raising Campaigns Enter Perpetual Mode
As back-to-back campaigns grew more common, so did criticism — and defense — of their wisdom. -
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The Review
You Probably Won’t Get Tenure. Get Your Ph.D. Anyway.
The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach. -
Backgrounder
Washington U. Is Fixing Its Economic-Diversity Problem. Its Next Challenge Is Parity.
The university is making progress in enrolling more students eligible for Pell Grants. Now it is wrestling with how to better support low-income students once they enroll. -
Research Careers
Data Mining Points Path to Helping Female and Minority Scientists
Research from Harvard suggests that measuring “reach” — how closely one journal author is connected to others — could be a key factor in career advancement. -
Diversity
Why an Ex-Mayor Sees Minority Students as Assets for Globally Competitive Businesses
A former mayor of Minneapolis says “different schools” will help close the achievement gap between white and minority students. -
The Review
The Flaw at the Heart of Psychological Research
The nature of the discipline makes statistics create headaches. -
The Review
The Ghost (Writer) in the Machine
Who wrote the first novel on a word processor, and what is the future of writing technology? -
The Review
Where Conservative Ideas Come From
Historians of the right face a reckoning in the time of Trump. -
Commentary
The Supreme Court Frees Colleges to Sensibly Pursue Diversity
The Fisher II decision signals, in a time of deep unrest, that race matters. -
Admissions
As ‘Fisher’ Churned, Conversations About Campus Diversity Evolved
Shifts in economics and student demographics, along with resurgent activism, have altered the tenor of the discussion about affirmative action over the past eight years. -
The Chronicle Review
‘Trump Syllabus’ Is as White as the Man Himself
Some scholars argue that the reading list represents neither diversity nor a commitment to social justice. -
Commentary
Chalk Dust on the Sleeve of Her Soul
To her colleagues and students at Trinity College, Marjorie Van Eenam Butcher mattered deeply. The feeling was mutual. -
Research
Historians of Slavery Find Fruitful Terrain: Their Own Institutions
In a year when student activists pushed colleges to reconsider racially charged monuments and building names, researchers who investigate campus history have found new momentum. -
Teaching
How to Prepare Professors Who Thought They’d Never Teach Online
As distance learning goes mainstream, colleges are rethinking how they train faculty members. -
Page Proof
The Best Candidates Read the Ad
A search for a new provost proved that many applicants fail to keep their readers in mind. -
Teaching
How One Professor Is Trying to Paint a Richer Portrait of Effective Teaching
Philip B. Stark found that student evaluations of teaching can be tainted by gender bias. He’s spearheading an effort among his peers to rely on those evaluations less, and to use other methods instead. -
The Review
The Travesty of Starving Our Best Public Universities
It is possible to create spaces of opportunity and rich intellectual inquiry, but we have failed to summon the necessary will. -
On Leadership
Video: A Call to Replace Adjuncts With Tenure-Track Faculty Members
Michael H. Schill, president of the University of Oregon, also talks about his plans to focus marketing efforts more on academics and less on athletics.