Jan. 6, 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 63, Issue 18-
PoliticsOn the Front Lines of a New Culture War
St. Cloud State University spent 15 years trying to become a beacon of diversity and tolerance while its city fought over the arrival of Muslim refugees. Then Donald Trump came along. -
From the Archives
Anatomy of a Hoax
How the physicist Alan Sokal hoodwinked a group of humanists and why, 20 years later, it still matters. -
The Review
Transfer Students Deserve Better Road Maps
The key for transfer success is academic preparation and transparency, writes a University of California admissions officer. Two national trends suggest that both are gaining ground. -
News
Clearing the Path for Transfer Students
Colleges are making changes to simplify the steps a student must take to move from a two-year to a four-institution. -
News
The Transfer Experience: a Student Perspective
Andy Hedrick, who started at a community college and graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington, says he could have used more guidance from the institutions on course credits and other topics. -
The Review
The Surprising Value That Need-Based Aid Brings
Making higher education possible for students who could not otherwise afford to enroll — not necessarily just the poorest — should be a priority for colleges. -
The Review
The Benefits of Gender Balance in a System’s Presidential Offices
Women lead nearly half of Minnesota State’s colleges and universities. That not only adds diversity at the top level but also inspires other women to dream beyond the future they thought they had. -
The Review
Portrait of the Artist as a Case Study
Students too often take a biographical approach to readings, selling short some heroic leaps of imagination. -
The Review
A Crisis of Short Attention Spans, 250 Years Ago
Readers’ distraction was both a topic and a challenge for 18th-century writers. -
The Review
The Counterintuitive Critics
Walter Benn Michaels’s grad students have infused literary analysis with enlightened skepticism. -
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News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (1/6/2017)
An arts dean at a State University of New York campus will lead the California Institute of the Arts. Pomona College has appointed its first female and first African-American president. -
Campus Culture
A Generational Schism Over Gay Rights Appears at Evangelical Colleges
The views of students are diverging from those of professors and administrators, fueled by a changing cultural and legal landscape. -
News
How Politics Shapes the Making of Higher-Education Regulations
Research shows that there tends to be more activity when Democrats have control of Congress and the White House. One expert explains why she still expects to see increased action under a Trump administration. -
The Chronicle Interview
Campus Identity Politics Is Dooming Liberal Causes, a Professor Charges
Rage over racial, gender, and sexual identity has no sense of proportion and creates a damaging spectacle, says Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University. -
Labor
Graduate-Student Union Efforts Gain Momentum, Despite New Uncertainties
A landslide pro-union vote at Columbia is likely to motivate similar drives at other private colleges. But the legal support for collective bargaining will be less certain under a Trump administration. -
Teaching
How Can Students Be Taught to Detect Fake News and Dubious Claims?
New attention to hyperpartisan or misleading information online has prompted some people in higher education to scrutinize how they teach students to navigate the web. -
Students
In Tense Times, Black Students Find Ways to Tell Their Own Stories
More of them are starting their own campus publications. Tied to activism, it’s a matter of asserting control over their lives. -
Labor Unions
Resident Advisers at George Washington U. Attempt to Open a New Union Front
A proposed union at the university, which would be the first of its kind at a private institution, is caught up in a familiar debate over whether such employees should be considered students or workers.
