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The Review
When Big Ideas Go Bad
Power poses became the hottest thing on the internet. But the science doesn’t hold up. -
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BACKGROUNDER
The Personal Lecture
Students have complained for generations of feeling like nameless specks in a cavernous lecture hall. Faculty members often dread such a sea of blank faces. Now universities are experimenting with ways to liven up those classes. -
News
5 Ways to Shake Up the Lecture
Flipping the classroom has gotten the most attention, but professors have a variety of approaches in their toolkits to improve the student experience. -
The Review
In Tumultuous Times, Colleges Can Do What They Do Best
It’s called education. A campus climate of demands, protests, and unrest is a laboratory for learning from people from different walks of life. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (12/9/2016)
The University of Minnesota at Morris selected Michelle Behr as its next chancellor; Saint Louis University appointed a new dean for its law school. -
The Review
Guiding When It’s a Matter of Life or Death
When students are in crisis, sometimes it’s enough to simply let them know they’re not alone. -
News
How One University Encourages Innovation in Teaching
The University of Georgia organizes faculty learning communities to help professors rethink the lecture. -
The Review
Teaching Through the Lens of Lament
In personal tragedy we sometimes find wisdom, and we can use it in the classroom. -
The Review
When Economics Was Radical
The field has activist roots and would do well to return to them. -
The Review
Reconsidering Research on Primates
Scientists scrutinize both their methodologies and their consciences. -
News
39 Private-College Leaders Earn More Than $1 Million
The Chronicle’s annual analysis of executive compensation at the institutions finds that the average pay of their presidents in 2014 was $489,927. -
The Review
Reframing Racism
It amounts to justification for wrongful actions that protect privilege, argues Ibram X. Kendi. -
News
A Push to ‘Expand White Privilege’
The white supremacist Richard Spencer sees college campuses as an important recruiting ground and hopes to visit “all the major ones.” -
Government
Blocked Overtime Rule Sows Uncertainty for Colleges
A federal judge’s injunction has forced institutions to either postpone pay increases and adjustments to hourly employment status or proceed as planned — even though the changes may be moot. -
Government
Why Most Secretaries of Education Haven’t Had a Higher-Ed Background
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Education Department, has no track record in higher education. But that’s hardly unusual over the post’s short history. -
The Review
Colleges’ Realities May Curtail DeVos’s Agenda
A huge loan system and day-to-day campus complications can humble any education secretary, no matter how ideologically ardent she is. -
The Review
Expect DeVos to Apply Her Free-Market Outlook to Colleges
What she’s advocated for in elementary and secondary schools in Michigan has implications for her approach to American colleges. -
Trump's Team
What Does Betsy DeVos Have in Mind for Higher Ed?
Donald Trump’s choice for education secretary has well-established views on elementary and secondary education, but virtually no track record on higher education. Friends and observers say her support for school choice may provide clues to her vision.