June 22, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 64, Issue 36-
NewsTransitions: New Presidents Selected for Ottawa U., U. of Nevada at Las Vegas, and Delaware State U.
Reggies Wenyika, president of Southwestern Christian University, will lead Ottawa University, in Kansas. -
From the Archives
Want to Kill Tenure? Be Careful What You Wish For
Restive administrators and trustees may see tenure as a burden. But eliminating it could bring unanticipated costs. -
News
Frustrated Faculty Struggle to Defend Tenure Before It’s Too Late
In Tennessee and elsewhere, professors worry that their arguments to legislators and the public are falling on deaf ears. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘To the Writing Students at Orientation’
A poem reminds a professor to encourage his students to keep sight of the community outside the classroom, where people struggle with the issues being studied in the classroom. -
News
Why College Leaders and Lawmakers Misunderstand Each Other, According to Someone Who’s Been Both
Educators must be vocal and clear about how they turn taxpayer dollars into effective results, says F. Ann Millner, a Utah state senator and former college president. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education: A Schoolteacher’s Bequest, Craigslist Founder’s Gift to CUNY
Colleges received millions from the founder of Craigslist, the widow of the man who created the Weather Channel, and a retired high-school teacher in Kansas. -
News
How Serious Are You About Diversity Hiring?
Putting principles into practice takes leadership, resources, and commitment. These colleges are using multistage anti-bias procedures to shake up the status quo. -
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The Review
Stop Trying to Sell the Humanities
Arguments that they’re useful are wrong, anti-humanistic, and sure to backfire. -
News
The Case for Treating International Students Fairly
The author of a new book argues that international students are valued as cash cows while being excluded from the equitable treatment accorded to other groups on campuses. -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
Some of the latest titles look at research by indigenous scholars regarding postsecondary education for American Indians and delve into the ways students around the world acquire the books for their studies, not always legally. -
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News
Transitions: UNC-Asheville Selects New Chancellor, Harvard President Wins Kluge Prize
Nancy J. Cable, president of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, will become chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. -
News
Michigan State Chief Said Abuse Victim Would Get ‘Kickback’ for Stirring Up Survivors, Emails Show
In private, John Engler seethed with the thought that victims of sexual abuse were being manipulated by trial lawyers. -
Sexual Harassment
A Major Scientific Society Says Harassment Derails Women’s Careers. Critics Say the Group Hasn’t Done Enough.
A new report from the National Academy of Sciences comes as the organization debates whether to expel members who commit sexual misconduct. -
Title IX
How a Letter Defending Avital Ronell Sparked Confusion and Condemnation
Scholars heard the NYU professor was under a Title IX investigation. They threw support behind her, but then their appeal was made public. -
Faculty Pay
Women of Color in Academe Make 67 Cents for Every Dollar Paid to White Men
A recent research brief repeats long-known findings. Systemic change, scholars say, is the only way to make progress. -
Legal
Jeff Sessions’ Justice Dept. Is Intervening in Another Campus Speech Case — Its Fourth
The department on Monday issued a “statement of interest” in a free-speech lawsuit filed against the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor by a group called Speech First. -
News
What Happens When an Adjunct Instructor Wants to Retire?
For many contingent faculty members, retirement is not an option. -
News
Education Dept. Report Says No to a For-Profit Accreditor — but It Might Not Matter
A draft document found that the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools had failed to meet nearly 60 federal regulations. Agency officials, though, are playing down the significance of those findings. -
Backgrounder
Female Historians Try to End the I-Didn’t-Know-Any-Women Excuse for Men-Only Panels
A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts. -
News
U. of California and Texas A&M Win Bid to Run Birthplace of Atom Bomb
The California system has shared operation of the Los Alamos laboratory for decades, but the partnership with Texas A&M — the alma mater of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry — marks a shift. -
The Review
The NCAA Is Too Far Gone for Incremental Reform
This most powerful of sports organizations must remake itself from a membership association into an independent leadership organization. -
News
Why Male Mentors in the #MeToo Era Must ‘Engage More, Not Run for the Hills’
At a time of heightened awareness about sexual harassment, senior men are shying away from mentoring young women. That’s a step in the wrong direction. -
The Review
Is This the World’s Most Bizarre Scholarly Meeting?
What would Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, a very friendly robot, plus a bevy of scientists, mystics, and wannabe scholars do at a fancy resort in Arizona? Perhaps real harm to the field of consciousness studies, for one thing. -
The Review
Hiring a Diversity Officer Is Only the First Step. Here Are the Next 7.
Institutional support at all levels is key to transforming the climate of everyday campus life. -
The Review
Do Unions Help Adjuncts?
We looked at dozens of collective-bargaining agreements to find out. -
Curriculum
U.S. Foreign-Language Enrollments Are Falling. Not at This University.
Money from the Defense Department and cultural foundations has helped the University of North Georgia steadily build up its language programs. -
Enrollment
Mizzou’s Freshman Class Shrank by a Third Over 2 Years. Here’s How It’s Trying to Turn That Around.
Publicity about racial unrest on the campus in 2015 prompted a decline in enrollment. The university’s leaders had to act fast. -
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The Review
What’s Wrong With Being From the South? Just Ask an Academic in the North
The stereotype of the Southerner — the rube, the redneck, the bigot — pervades elite colleges and hinders the important work of bridging a growing cultural divide. -
The Review
Not Here to Make Friends
The academic job market brings out the worst in us. It doesn’t have to be that way.
