July 7, 2017

The Review

Lyft and Learn

By Shaul Bakhash

Why settle for a ride to the airport when you can also get a lecture on Descartes?

The Review

The Myth of ‘Cultural Appropriation’

By Walter Benn Michaels

Arguing that certain people don’t have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.

The Review

A First-Generation Student’s Survival Strategy: Work More, Sleep Less

By David Hernández

Now a tenure-track professor, David Hernández found the road to his education littered with roadblocks. Colleges could ease the journey for the working poor.

Enrique Aguayo counsels a student at Martin Middle School, in Austin. Mr. Aguayo, a graduate student at the U. of Texas at Austin, works for Project MALES, which stands for Mentoring  to Achieve Latino Educational Success. In the program, undergraduate- and graduate-school mentors try to guide Latino boys to college.

News

Building Latino Male Achievement

By Kelly Field

A mentoring program at the University of Texas at Austin is part of a small but growing effort to get more Latino men into and through college.

The library at DePaul U., where  Scott Walter is university librarian,   is among those that have emphasized serving students, not just collecting books.

News

What the 21st-Century Library Looks Like

By Shannon Najmabadi

In the internet age, librarians are focusing less on books and more on teaching. Is something getting lost in the transition?

The Review

How to Flatten the Cost Curve of College

By Alana Dunagan

At least a few colleges are looking beyond incremental steps to reach new students, raise the bottom line, and rethink the role of higher education.

The Review

Ethics 101 for Admissions Officers

By Gary Saul Morson and Morton O. Schapiro

It’s not right to punish students who really want to attend your college by making them pay more.

Chronicle List

Top Recipients of Pell Grants and Federal Student Loans for Undergraduates, by Sector, 2014-15

By Chronicle Staff

The University of Phoenix-Arizona received the highest amount of Pell Grants and federal student loans for undergraduates, and Liberty University received the second highest amount.

News

Weekly Book List, July 7, 2017

Compiled by Nina Ayoub

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

The tone at the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has long been that investigators "should keep looking until they find something," Candice Jackson, acting assistant secretary of that office, told campus lawyers on Tuesday. She vowed to work more collaboratively with college’s legal teams.

Sexual Assault

College Lawyers Welcome New Clarity of Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights

By Eric Kelderman

The Trump administration is responding to their frustrations about guidance on how to deal with sexual assaults, campus legal officials say.

Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Wash., was evacuated earlier this month after the campus received an anonymous threat. Last week, a similar scenario played out at Trinity College, in Connecticut. With the level of threatened violence on the increase, colleges face some unique challenges in assessing when their campus is in danger, and how to respond.

Campus Safety

What Colleges Can Do When the Internet Outrage Machine Comes to Campus

By Beth McMurtrie

Trinity College, in Connecticut, had no warning that it would suddenly become a focus for threats. But it had a plan for quickly convening campus officials to assess and respond to the situation.

Protesters demonstrate against President Trump’s travel ban outside a federal courthouse in Seattle in May. In an order on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said students at American colleges from six Muslim-majority countries can enter the United States. But prospective students still could be affected by the ban.

News

International Students Dodge Trump’s Partly Reinstated Travel Ban, but Concerns Persist

By Karin Fischer

The U.S. Supreme Court says students from six Muslim-majority countries can enter the United States. But prospective students still could be affected.

Candice Jackson, acting head of the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, has directed the office to scale back on when it expands the investigation of a Title IX complaint into a broader review. The office may also face major budget cuts.

News

In the Time of Trump, Colleges Start to ‘Make Title IX Our Own’

By Sarah Brown

After the president’s election, speculation abounded that colleges might scale back their efforts to combat sexual violence. Instead, many Title IX coordinators are trying to chart a new path forward.