Oct. 6, 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 64, Issue 6-
A State’s AddictionOne University Takes On the Opioid Crisis
In West Virginia, confronting the epidemic is a moral obligation and a practical necessity. -
The Chronicle Review
The Essential English Department
Divining the meaning of a text isn’t a frivolous act — it’s an essential skill in an enlightened democracy. -
The Review
Lessons From a Merger: A Brighter Future by Expanding Our Vision
College mergers are messy and complex, but as they become more common, leaders must not allow financial and other pressures to limit the range of futures we can imagine. -
The Review
To Lighten the Regulatory Load, Focus on For-Profits
Many of the rules burdening colleges were created to address the abuses resulting from for-profit colleges’ participation in federal financial-aid programs. -
News
How 2 Professors Used Data to Improve Their Courses
One saw a dropout problem in the statistics, and another found a racial disparity in completion rates for a business course. -
The Chronicle Interview
How a Reality-TV Star Became the Voice of Sexual-Violence Prevention
When college coaches need someone to talk to their athletes about the importance of respecting women, they call Alexis Jones. -
News
Getting Faculty Members to Embrace Student Data
Pierce College has improved graduation rates by breaking down student success, course by course. -
The Review
The Crisis of Civic Education
Colleges have fallen short on one of their most important missions. -
The Chronicle Review
Take Back the Ivory Tower
It’s up to the academy to create citizens moved by more than tribe and gut. -
The Review
Democracy’s Disappearance
Reversing the disintegration of the curriculum is the first step in restoring the American idea. -
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News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (10/6/2017)
A Harvard dean will lead the University of Virginia, and a chancellor whose hurricane response was deemed unsatisfactory has stepped down. -
Chronicle List
4-Year Institutions With the Most Interlibrary Loans, 2014-15
Libraries that lend many materials through interlibrary loan also tend to borrow many items for their users that way. -
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Campus Speech
Sessions’ Justice Dept. Will Weigh In on Free-Speech Cases. What Should Campuses Expect?
In an address on Tuesday at Georgetown University, the U.S. attorney general vowed to “enforce federal law, defend free speech, and protect students’ free expression from whatever end of the political spectrum it may come.” -
Global
Trump Unveils Revamped Travel Ban
New restrictions are likely to further complicate American colleges’ global recruitment. -
Commentary
‘Interim’ Guidance on Title IX Creates Confusion, Not Clarity
Lawyers may be the biggest beneficiaries of the Education Department’s revisions to Obama-era rules on campus sexual assault. -
News
What Does the End of Obama’s Title IX Guidance Mean for Colleges?
Campus administrators say they’ll stay the course in responding to sexual assault for now, but they’re anxious about what’s to come. -
Campus Speech
As ‘Free Speech Week’ Crumbled, Berkeley Braced for … Something
Milo Yiannopoulos’s much-ballyhooed conservative festival, which once seemed ambitious, ultimately appears to have fizzled. But the university couldn’t afford to take the event lightly. -
News
What You Need to Know About the New Guidance on Title IX
Here’s a guide to the Education Department’s question-and-answer document on campus sexual assault, which contains changes that are already stirring controversy. -
Academic Freedom
Dust-Up Involving Conservative Student Sparks Political Uproar in Nebraska
Two instructors protested a student who promoted the right-wing group Turning Point USA. The backlash that ensued has left some professors feeling vulnerable. -
