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Oct. 19, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 65, Issue 7
From the Archive
Almost 90 years ago, a young anthropologist was murdered in the field. The case still speaks volumes about sexual assault and how we explain it away.
Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff
Colleges tended to have far more referrals to student-conduct programs than arrests for suspected violations.
News
With little fanfare, Michael McRobbie has brought about a renewal on a campus where many once felt progress had halted.
News
More four-year colleges are hiring managers to foster a sense of community among first-generation students.
News
Ching-Hua Wang will become Samuel Merritt’s second president in November. Josh Gladden has served as Ole Miss’s interim vice chancellor of research since 2016.
Academic Freedom
Professors who decline to write such letters for moral or political reasons are often unaware of campus policies to guide them — if they even exist.
Collegiality
This scholar at the New School won’t be allowed to attend faculty or committee meetings, or public events where other faculty members’ work is being presented.
Graduate Students
The relationship between advisers and advisees is a crucial one, but the two often have different expectations. A graduate dean has a way to improve communication.
News
Professors can’t be experts in everything that can go wrong for a student. But they should know how to make referrals to necessary campus resources.
Commentary
By Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill
Young alumni, even the wealthy ones, are not supporting their alma maters the way their parents did. Colleges need new strategies to turn them into philanthropists.
News
“Scholarship should not depend on the identity or motivation of the writers,” said Helen Pluckrose, one of three academics whose scheme targeted journals in identity-studies fields.
The Review
By Janelle Wong
The Trump administration’s investigations into illegal discrimination at Yale and Harvard are misguided.
News
A new study finds that the same best practices that make an exam an effective assessment also deepen students’ understanding.
Advice
For Ph.D.s, figuring out how to describe your “transferable skills” is a lot harder than it looks.