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Chronicle List
4-Year Public Colleges Whose Undergraduates Were Least Likely to Receive Grant Aid
Eight University of Wisconsin campuses were among the top 50 for the percentage of students who were not awarded any grant aid in 2015-16. -
Free Speech and Safety
Don’t Stop Inviting Controversial Speakers. Just Prepare Prudently.
Student collaboration across political lines, early planning, careful crowd control, and public preparatory discussion of free-speech principles are among the ways colleges can make a potentially tense situation manageable. -
The Review
Higher Ed, Inc.
How the university became a profit-generating cog in the corporate machine. -
The Review
We Are All Research Subjects Now
Scandals in the mid-20th century led to a series of protections. Now that we’re all under scrutiny, who will keep us safe? -
The Review
How Academic Corruption Works
It’s not the morally lax scholar who’s most vulnerable. It’s the honest one. -
AN EPIDEMIC TOUCHES CAMPUS
‘We’re Going to Do This’
How one community college faced up to its students’ struggles with opioid addiction and vowed to help them fight for their lives. -
News
Transitions: New President at Westminster College, Harvard Names New Alumni-Affairs Chief
Bethami Dobkin took the helm of the college, in Salt Lake City, in July. Harvard’s new alumni-affairs chief comes from the California Institute of Technology. -
News
Why Storytelling Matters in Fields Beyond the Humanities
The physician and literary scholar Rita Charon, a pioneer in narrative medicine, explains how to train students to listen like readers, the theme of this year’s Jefferson Lecture. -
News
It’s Been 2 Years Since Scandal Erupted at Baylor. Yet the Allegations Continue.
A former board chair is said to have used a racial slur to describe black athletes, and a former Title IX official details how she was prevented from doing her job. Meanwhile, the NCAA has issued a formal notice of violations. -
News
Georgetown Professor’s Profane Tweet Elicits Tepid Response From University
Christine Fair said “entitled white men” like those defending Brett Kavanaugh merit “miserable deaths while feminists laugh.” In a statement the university recognized free-speech rights, condemned violent imagery, but did not name her once. -
International
‘It Would Have Been Catastrophic’: Trump Administration Suggested, Then Shelved, a Plan to Bar All Chinese Students
Educators expressed relief that President Trump had been dissuaded from acting on the visa proposal, but they worried it could be a prelude to future policies that could undermine higher education’s global outreach. -
Campus Safety
A $1-Million Fine for Violating the Clery Act? Expensive, but Not Unprecedented
The University of Montana is appealing a penalty levied by the Education Department for failure to report campus-crime data. -
Job Market
How Much Does Publishing in Top Journals Boost Tenure Prospects? In Economics, a Lot
The journals are shaping scholars’ research agendas — and not for the better. -
The Review
Betsy DeVos’s For-Profit Strategy Is Risky — for Betsy DeVos
If the education secretary knowingly funnels federal grants and loans to for-profit colleges in defiance of the law, she could face fines or even jail. -
Social Media
Why Did These Scholars Suddenly Find Their Twitter Accounts Suspended?
The social-networking service mysteriously reinstated them later in the same day. -
News
‘This Is Much More Important’: How Professors Taught the Kavanaugh-Ford Hearing
Some explained to students how the testimony related to what they were learning, while others threw away the lesson plan entirely. -
Faculty Activists
Academics Who Back Boycott of Israel Practice Activism With Small, Weighty Gestures
After a Michigan professor made headlines by refusing to write a letter of recommendation for a student going to Israel, other professors describe how they’ve supported the BDS movement in their academic roles. -
Supreme Court
The Kavanaugh-Ford Hearing and Campus Sexual Assault: 3 Parallels
Administrators and lawyers who handle campus sexual-misconduct cases drew parallels between the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday and their jobs. -
Sexual Misconduct
Professor Who Complained of Vigilante Justice Is Found Responsible for Harassment
He will remain on paid leave while the University of California at Santa Cruz considers further disciplinary action. -
The Review
How the Israel Boycott Can Compromise Faculty and Harm Students
A Michigan professor’s refusal to recommend a worthy student for study in Israel is both an ethical breach and potentially discriminatory. -
News
As Cornell Finds Him Guilty of Academic Misconduct, Food Researcher Will Retire
Brian Wansink says his retirement has been “in the works for a long time,” but it comes as a university investigation takes him to task for “misreporting of research data, problematic statistical techniques,” and other violations. -
News
DeVos’s Education Dept. Relaxed Rules for For-Profits Under Accreditor That Closed
A letter obtained by The Chronicle suggests that the department offered “flexibility” to colleges that were left without an accreditor after the Obama administration stripped the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools of its recognition.