Jan. 27, 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 63, Issue 21-
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Curriculum
The Idea That Launched a Thousand Strategic Plans
Many colleges seek to bridge the “skills gap,” but no one really agrees on what it is, what institutions need to do about it, or if fixing it is even higher education’s job. -
The Review
How to Help Students When Your College Closes
Administrators should takes solace in knowing that they made a difficult situation more tolerable by communicating clearly and providing good options. -
STEM Students
A Lab of Her Own
How colleges are retaining female undergraduates in engineering and computer science. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘The Quarter-Life Breakthrough’
A book by Adam Smiley Poswolsky opens up classroom discussions about the road to meaningful work. -
News
What Many Colleges Need: a Driving Vision
Mark William Roche, a former dean, says universities can distinguish themselves by remedying higher education’s shortcomings. -
The Review
Brains From Which the Alt-Right Sprang
A forthcoming study maps the intellectual roots of the “first new philosophical competitor to liberalism” since the fall of Communism. -
The Review
How to Teach About Nature While We Destroy It
Scholars must rise to the task of studying human hubris. -
The Review
A Contrarian View of the Black Literary Tradition
Across a color line and an ocean, African-Americans in the Victorian era played off British writers. -
The Review
The Neglected Middle of U.S. Politics
Scholars study the political right and left, but ignore moderates. -
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The Review
The Reluctant Reader
Literature may make us more empathetic – until it threatens to really change us. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (1/27/2017)
A vice president at a Virginia college will lead Pennsylvania State University at Wilkes Barre, and a former dean at a Russian university will be education dean at Sacramento State. -
Sexual Assault
The Battle Against Campus Sexual Assault ‘Is a Fight We Can Win’
A campus activist reflects on how sexual-assault survivors organized to change the discussion under the Obama administration and how they plan to meet the challenges under President Trump. -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
The latest topics include the value of liberal-arts education for prison inmates and why students resist learning. -
Student Housing
Female-Only ‘Nerd’ Dorm Helps Keep Women in Engineering
Virginia Tech’s living-learning community includes social activities and visits to high schools to help spur female interest in becoming an engineer. -
The Review
You Don’t Need to Be Superwoman to Succeed in STEM
The pernicious myth that you need to be a straight-A student to deserve your spot encourages everyone to hide what they see as their failures. -
Faculty
In California, Tensions Over Growth Divide a Campus
Faculty and administrators at the University of California at Riverside are wrestling with how to heal a rift caused in part by fallout from an ambitious expansion plan. -
The Review
Don’t Retreat. Teach Citizenship.
It’s possible to cultivate valuable skills and dispositions across the curriculum. And now it’s more crucial than ever. -
News
Obamacare Repeal Could Bring Relief for Colleges, Uncertainty for Adjuncts
Republicans in Congress are working to roll back the Affordable Care Act. What its replacement could mean for higher ed and its work force is anybody’s guess. -
Academic Integrity
How Hard Is It for a University to Revoke a Ph.D.?
The case of a Trump aide who bowed out of a White House post after reports that she had plagiarized parts of her dissertation raises questions about what actions an institution can take. -
News
DeVos Takes Center Stage: Highlights From Her Confirmation Hearing
The education-secretary nominee avoided specifics as senators pressed for her positions on issues including student debt, regulations on for-profit-colleges, and Title IX. -
Title IX
On Eve of Trump Inaugural, Harvard Official Takes Key Title IX Post at Education Dept.
Mia Karvonides will advise top people at the department’s Office for Civil Rights and will help enforce the federal gender-equity law. -
Government
5 Things to Know About Betsy DeVos
A primer on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for education secretary, whose confirmation hearings begin today. -
Commentary
You Talkin’ to Me?
Now more than ever, colleges should be teaching contemplative listening, the learning outcome that’s not on the list. -
News
When Students’ Prejudices Taint Reviews of Instructors
A University of Kansas dispute raises questions about how colleges should respond to evidence of racism, sexism, or other biases in students’ evaluations of teaching. -
Curriculum
How Colleges Can Teach Students to Be Good Citizens
After a bruising presidential campaign, many colleges are devoting renewed attention to fostering civic engagement in their students. -
The Review
Can We Really Measure Implicit Bias? Maybe Not
Harvard’s Project Implicit website has informed millions of visitors about their racial prejudices. It has also fueled a decade-long academic feud.
