July 6, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 64, Issue 37-
NewsTransitions: Los Angeles City College Makes Interim President Permanent, 4 Universities Name New Provosts
Mary Gallagher will lead Los Angeles City College. Western Kentucky University chose a liberal-arts dean as provost. -
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News
Stats Gathered in Advising Help Colleges Rethink Intro Courses
More-detailed information about student backgrounds aids in revamping classes predictive of student success. -
Chronicle List
Colleges With the Highest Percentages of Full Professors
Faculty members at private nonprofit institutions were slightly more likely to have reached the rank of professor than were those at public institutions. -
News
Student Needs Have Changed. Advising Must Change, Too.
Gone are the days of simply helping students register for classes and pick a major. New strategies and technologies are aimed at improving retention and graduation rates. -
The Review
The Right Way to Nudge Students
Interventions are effective only if the data being used tell the whole story. -
The Review
How to Best Harness Student-Success Technology
Lessons from Georgia State University, where an extensive intervention system has helped eliminate all achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity, and income level. -
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News
Transitions: North Central Michigan College Selects New Chief, Lesley U. President Will Step Down
David Roland Finley, from Lake Superior State University, will lead North Central Michigan College. The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience recognized six young scientists. -
News
What Does Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Mean for Higher Education?
A Reagan appointee, Kennedy provided a moderate voice and sometimes sided with the court’s liberal arm, as in his surprising opinion in 2016 on the use of race in college admissions. -
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Supreme Court’s Ruling Against Public Unions Leaves Murky Outlook for Academic Labor
A former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board says the effect of the decision on higher education depends, in part, on the appetite for “internecine warfare” on public-college campuses. -
News
A College Considers Taking the ‘Liberal’ Out of ‘Liberal Education’
A proposal to strike the word from the governing laws of the University of Colorado Board of Regents points to unease and confusion surrounding the term in higher education. -
The Review
Why We Should Spare the Education Department — for Now
A merger with the Labor Department would only exacerbate the worst aspects of the deeply flawed agency under Betsy DeVos. -
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News
Scholars Sound Alarms on Trump’s Border Crackdown. But Academic Nuance Doesn’t Always Break Through.
Through social media and other outlets, experts are marshaling research to engage with the public like seldom before. -
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At a Brutal Meeting of Trustees, Michigan State’s Wounds Are Laid Bare
After a disastrous 10 days in which calls mounted for John Engler to resign as interim president, the meeting turned into a spectacle of painful survivor testimony and the pleading of a board at wits’ end. -
Commentary
Thinking About a Merger? Read This First
One year later, here are some lessons learned from the combining of two universities in Philadelphia. -
Legal Education
‘I Don’t Think We Were Prepared for This Level of Cruelty’
Law professors and their students step up to defend the defenseless during America’s immigration crisis. -
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Gender
A Scholar Asked, ‘Why Can’t We Hate Men?’ Now She Responds to the Deluge of Criticism
Suzanna Danuta Walters says that while she does not “hate men in some generic way,” it makes sense for women to have “legitimate rage” against a group that has “systematically abused them.” -
The Review
Why Professors Distrust Beauty
A shift from the ascetic to the aesthetic is underway. At its center: evolutionary biology.
