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Chronicle List
Top-Performing Institutions for Sustainability, 2017
The three baccalaureate colleges that scored highest in the 2017 Sustainable Campus Index were all in Vermont. -
News
Steering More Women to Silicon Valley
In an attempt to get more women into the technology industry, Duke University has launched a program that matches female undergraduates with internships. -
News
Meet the Members of iGen, and Help Them Get Off Their Phones
Older generations aren’t trying to gripe about today’s college students, but to understand them, says the generational researcher Jean Twenge. -
The Review
How Dual Enrollment Contributes to Inequality
The wildly popular program lets high-school students earn college credits cheaply and easily. But it’s not available to all students equally. -
The Review
What New Book Are You Most Excited About?
Eleven scholars tell us about new and forthcoming books they’re looking forward to reading. -
The Review
The New Campus Censors
Students are leading the assault on free speech — and faculty members and administrators are enabling them. -
The Review
3 Ways to Get More Women Into Tech
The president of Harvey Mudd College shares the strategies it’s used to interest more female students in computer science. -
News
Higher Education Takes On the Tech Industry’s Diversity Problem
Here’s a look at the different ways colleges are trying to increase the proportion of women and underrepresented minority groups working at technology companies. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (11/10/2017)
Laura Monks is the new president of Tennessee College of Applied Technology at Shelbyville, and Harry Williams was named president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. -
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News
The Button-Down Anarchist
Dartmouth’s Mark Bray has become the scholar who explains antifa to the world. What’s his place in academe? -
News
Few Details Emerge in Sexual-Misconduct Investigation of 3 Dartmouth Professors
Amid feverish speculation but little solid information, a lawyer for one of the faculty members says the inquiry has nothing to do with her client’s research. -
News
Under New Trump Rule, Notre Dame Ends Contraception Coverage for Employees and Students
The Roman Catholic university’s health-insurance plan covers 90 percent of its employees and more than 3,000 students. -
News
In New Profile, DeVos Blames Staff for Rocky Confirmation Hearing
“The transition group was very circumspect about how much information they gave me about then-current policy,” the education secretary said in a new profile published by Politico Magazine. -
News
For Civil-War Scholars, a Settled Question That Will Never Die: What Caused the War?
Remarks by the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, sparked a debate about slavery’s role in the conflict. Historians have long fielded such questions and say very little can change the minds of those convinced the war was about some other issue. -
Student Success
How to Help Disadvantaged Students Reach the Middle Class
A higher-education summit brings together influential educators to plot strategies for lifting college-completion rates. -
News
What’s the Ideal Mix of Online and Face-to-Face Classes?
For community-college students, the answer might be three in-person courses and two online ones, according to new research. -
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Demand for Pilots Sparks Instructor Shortage at Colleges’ Flight Programs
Regional airlines are looking to hire students as quickly as possible. The only problem is that they’re hiring instructors too. -
Novel Twist
John Grisham’s Latest Villain? For-Profit Colleges
With a novel about a shady law school and the student-debt crisis, the best-selling fiction writer could shape popular views of higher-education policy. -
News
Cappella-Strayer Merger Is Latest Sign of Upheaval in For-Profit Sector
Strayer Education Inc. and the Capella Education Company announced on Monday that they would combine. -
Race on Campus
Impeachment of Black Student Leader Raises Uncomfortable Questions at Clemson U.
The vote comes one month after the student-government vice president led a protest during the Pledge of Allegiance. -
Curriculum
College of the Ozarks Now Requires Course in ‘Patriotic Education and Fitness’
Topics in the class at the small Christian college in Missouri include map reading, the formation of American government, and rifle marksmanship. -
Leadership
Liberty U. President Says Trump Could Be ‘Greatest President Since Abraham Lincoln’
Jerry Falwell Jr., leader of the evangelical online-learning behemoth, continues to be the U.S. president’s closest ally in higher education. -
Title IX
Candice Jackson on Campus Sex Assault: ‘We’re Not Asking Schools to Step In as Courts of Law’
The acting assistant secretary for civil rights spoke to a congressional task force as the Education Department weighs changes in Title IX policy. -
Tenure
U. of Arkansas System Considers Changes to Ease Tenured-Faculty Firings
The university says the proposal is merely an effort to align with “current law and best practices.” Some professors say making collegiality a criterion in faculty evaluations is an attack on academic freedom. -
News
After Outcry, U. of Wisconsin Drops Plan to Suspend Admissions to 2-Year M.B.A. Program
With declines in applications at many American business schools, especially from abroad, students and alumni fear their programs will close. -
News
Supercomputers, a Status Symbol in Academe, Compete With the Cloud
For research universities, the machines confer big-league status. But in-house experts, who can guide researchers to the best computing options, are growing in esteem. -
News
Advocate for Jewish Civil Rights Is Tapped to Lead Key Education Dept. Office
Kenneth L. Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and a professor at Baruch College of the City University of New York, has criticized the department for overreaching on sexual harassment. -
News
Public Colleges Backslide on Access, Report Says
With income inequality in the headlines, colleges are playing up their role as engines of opportunity. But a new report says some of those institutions now admit a smaller share of needy students than they did 20 years ago. -
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UC-Davis Chancellor Seeks to Get Campus Past Scandals
Bad news from his predecessor’s rocky term in office keeps on coming, and the demand for change on campus hasn’t receded, says Gary May. -
Accountability
An Official in Obama’s Education Dept. Explains Her Move to Lead an Accreditor
Jamienne S. Studley, formerly deputy under secretary of education, will become president of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges’ commission on colleges in January. -
Faculty
Amazon Is Hiring Ph.D.s — Hundreds This Year
Research universities, even major ones, take years to complete hiring sprees of this scale. -
The Review
Trump Is the New ________
Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading — and absolutely essential. -
The Review
Professors Are Complicit in Football Players’ Brain Damage
In granting football scholarships, colleges agree to cultivate student-athletes’ thinking on the condition that they risk serious cognitive harm. -
News
Can a Focus on the Marketplace Help the Social Sciences Have an Impact?
The I-Corps model is winning admirers in a variety of scientific enterprises. The question is whether it can solve social problems too. -
The Chronicle Review
How Not to Dismantle the Old-Boy Network
Inviting more voices into the academic conversation can be anti-academic. -
The Chronicle Review
An Antidote for American Amnesia
Tiya Miles maps forgotten corners of slave history. -
The Chronicle Review
Sigmund Fraud?
Frederick Crews’s capstone biography offers a most unflattering case history.