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May 11, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 64, Issue 33
News
Lily D. McNair, provost at Wagner College, was chosen to lead Tuskegee University. The Aspen Institute named 40 fellows for its community-college leadership program.
Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff
Not all of the public doctoral institutions that paid their full professors the most in 2016-17 were in cities known for their high costs of living.
News
A professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill uses inclusive teaching, which seeks to equalize opportunity for students from all backgrounds to participate and succeed in class.
News
More than 70 institutions now offer scholarships for eSports, and they’re developing new facilities for their competitors and fans.
News
Colleges build for the ages, usually with heavy stone structures that sit in place for decades. A different kind of construction can save time and money.
News
Administrators say it’s the “third rail” of facilities questions: With faculty members spending less of their time in their campus offices, can colleges afford to keep building them?
News
The traditional faculty office, tucked away in a different building, doesn’t lend itself to casual conversation after class. But there are spaces that do.
News
Public-private partnerships can help colleges remake their campuses in years, rather than decades. The bigger the deal, the more complexities it brings.
News
The Chronicle collected images from institutions across the country that use the landscape, loosely defined, to foster learning.
News
“One of the challenges at this university is that it’s so historic — the ADA wasn’t around in 1819,” says Cory Paradis, who uses a wheelchair and majors in urban planning at the University of Virginia.
News
By Karen A. Snedker, Jennifer McKinney
For three months, Seattle Pacific University welcomed people who are homeless to the campus. Here’s what professors and students learned.
News
By Fawn Behrens-Smith
With proper evaluation and planning, new space doesn’t have to mean new square footage.
News
By Warren Williams
Spaces where people can connect with one another are especially valuable at community-focused HBCUs.
News
Cory Paradis gave The Chronicle a campus tour to highlight changes that have helped him navigate the University of Virginia’s campus.
Idea Lab
Nontraditional leaders from business, NGOs, or government face pitfalls and suspicions. But seasoned administrators can acclimatize them to the strange new world of shared governance.
The Review
By Todd Adams
New leaders must be open to learning the culture of higher education, and faculty members must give them time.
News
Find your unofficial “kitchen cabinet” of advisers, and other advice from a consultant who became a dean.
News
Jean G. Dahlgren will lead Delaware College of Art and Design; the Carnegie Corporation of New York named 31 Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
Leadership
During her short tenure as the flagship’s chancellor, Beverly Davenport ran afoul of conservatives over “Sex Week,” outsourcing of campus labor, and gay rights. She also presided over a botched search for a football coach.
Academic Freedom
It may defy the examples brandished by right-wing pundits, but Jeffrey Adam Sachs says faculty members are dismissed more often for liberal comments than conservative ones.
News
A series of gifts the university accepted between 2003 and 2011, including some from the Charles Koch Foundation, included language granting donors room to influence the selection of professors. Now the university’s gift-acceptance policy is under review.
Transfers
Good role models are needed at a time when a third of students transfer at least once, but 43 percent of the credits they earn get lost in the process.
News
The text of an agreement, obtained by a local newspaper, details what the university negotiated following harassment by a former athletic director, Norwood Teague.
The Review
By Terry Crawford
It’s important to remember that Chinese people are not a monolithic force, moving in lockstep with their government.
News
When reformers focus on full-time students, too many minority students are left behind, a study finds.
News
Shocked and angry, the students are now scrambling to find affordable options with the help of admissions officials and college counselors all over the world.
News
Eight women told Science magazine that they were sexually harassed by Inder Verma, a molecular-biology professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
The Review
Guns, social-media pressures, and economic uncertainty have created an epidemic of mental-health issues on college campuses.
News
By Jodi S. Cohen
How a star psychiatrist at the University of Illinois at Chicago violated protocols and put children at risk.
News
A commission led by Condoleezza Rice promised bold reforms to root out corruption in college basketball. Instead it sidestepped player-compensation issues that many see at the heart of the matter.
Student Aid
His website, the Student Loan Report, is widely cited by news media for its surveys on loan debt, and Cloud is quoted at length. But both he and his organization are facades.
News
By Julian Wyllie
Kerry Cronin offers Boston College freshmen extra credit for putting down their phones and planning a date. She’d like them to feel awkward and vulnerable, and maybe less lonely.
News
Some members of the Midwest Political Science Association say they are leaving the group over its handling of allegations against William G. Jacoby.