Oct. 26, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 65, Issue 8-
NewsFaculty Members Can Build Relationships With Online Students. Here’s How.
When she was first asked to create an online curriculum, Dana Grossman Leeman said no way. Learning she could bring a personal touch to the virtual classroom made her a convert. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education: 2 Universities Get Millions for Engineering
Two universities in Texas will name their mechanical-engineering departments in honor of J. Mike Walker, a manufacturer who gave each of them $20 million. -
News
How to Draw Faculty to Workshops? Make It Like a Game
Awards like badges can get instructors more interested in teaching workshops, some campuses have found. But they don’t work everywhere. -
News
How Purdue Professors Are Building More Active and Engaged Classrooms
A campuswide program to encourage new forms of teaching is helping reshape the undergraduate experience. -
News
Rice Eliminates the Red Tape to Encourage Research on Teaching
Professors essentially apply to join a study that’s already in progress, avoiding the institutional-review-board process that is described as “onerous.” -
News
This University’s ‘Accelerator’ Tests New Ideas for Teaching — and It’s Working
Ohio University supplies resources to put proposals for transformation to the test. -
News
Want More Students to Study Abroad? Get the Faculty Involved
Baldwin Wallace University’s decision to expand its study-abroad offerings has led to some rare faculty-development opportunities, as professors develop close ties with counterparts in Zambia. -
Special Reports
How to Make Your Residence Halls Work Year-Round
If you’re planning a new building, consider design features that will help bring in income beyond the school year. -
News
We Must Help First-Generation Students Master Academe’s ‘Hidden Curriculum’
An experimental course exposes first-generation students to the unwritten rules and unspoken expectations of an elite university. -
News
Teaching With an Index Card: the Benefits of Free, Open-Source Tools
If colleges want to make good on their promises to prepare students for the world beyond the classroom, they should use methods that teach digital skills safely and ethically. -
News
Why Incentives for Innovation Don’t Work
What’s needed to produce real change is intrinsic, rather than extrinsic, motivation. -
News
Here’s What Today’s Students Want From College
Institutions that use online survey data to group students into segments can personalize campus services and put themselves on stronger financial footing. -
The Review
Key Questions to Answer Before Seriously Considering a Merger
There is more to weigh than just the amount of money saved and the number of programs expanded. -
News
Mergers Can Benefit All Involved — but They’re Never Easy
The finances, logistics, and diplomacy are daunting. But if leaders can swallow their pride and work toward compromise, consolidations sometimes make very good sense. -
News
What I’m Reading: ‘A Nation at Risk’
A 35-year-old report on the state of education reminds a professor of how much work remains to be done. -
News
How Campus Activism Changed the South
The battle to transform Southern higher education a half-century ago resonates today, says the author of a new book about the “Jim Crow campus.” -
Selected New Books on Higher Education
The latest titles include examinations of student-conduct practices and of alternative teacher-education programs. -
Backgrounder
One College Used Football to Win Fame. But What Has It Lost?
On countless TV screens, Independence Community College stands for second chances. But to many people who live in the Kansas town, watching the show that made their town famous is like staring into a broken mirror. -
News
Transitions: Naval Postgraduate School Selects New President, New Provost Named at Cabrini U.
The next leader of the Naval Postgraduate School has been president of College of DuPage since 2016. Cabrini’s new provost comes from Cottey College. -
The Chronicle Interview
How This Sociologist’s Research Led a State to Abolish the Death Penalty
After years of debate, a state supreme court’s ruling gave “great weight” to Katherine Beckett’s analysis of race in criminal justice. -
The Review
College Leaders, It’s Your Duty to Get Students to Vote. Here’s How.
It’s a two-step process that starts in the classroom and winds up being embedded in the campus culture. -
Enrollment
There’s a Newfound Enthusiasm for Women’s Colleges. But Can They Keep It Going?
Social changes like the #MeToo movement have opened students’ eyes to the benefits of women’s colleges, their leaders say. -
Academic Freedom
2 Academic Groups Urge U. of Michigan to Use Restraint in Clash Over Letters of Recommendation
The American Political Science Association and the American Association of University Professors asked the university to rethink its response to faculty members who decline to support students bound for Israel. -
Innovation
MIT Plans $1-Billion Project to Develop Artificial Intelligence — and to Tackle Challenges the Technology Will Create
Fueled by $650 million in gifts so far and 50 faculty hires, a new college will break down interdisciplinary silos and explore both the future and implications of the growing field. -
Admissions
Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions Policy Goes on Trial on Monday. Here’s What to Expect.
The latest front in the fight over affirmative action opens in a federal courtroom in Boston and could have lasting implications for colleges nationwide. -
The Review
Most Republicans Still Aren’t Crazy About Higher Education. And That’s OK.
Colleges are inspiring distrust not because they are abandoning their mission but because they are doing their best to carry it out. -
News
How 3 Colleges Changed Their Sexual-Assault Practices in Response to a National Survey
The survey, sponsored by the Association of American Universities, prompted more hiring for Title IX offices and other shifts to improve how campuses respond to reports of sexual misconduct. -
Sexual Harassment
For U. of Virginia’s Miller Center, a Reckoning in the #MeToo Era
Complaints about sexual harassment inside the esteemed public-policy institute have provoked a difficult reflection about how big donors and scholars alike let its culture go so wrong. -
Advice
Don’t Let Prestige Bias Keep You From Applying to Community Colleges
One of the most common mistakes that new Ph.D.s make on the job market is ignoring the two-year sector. -
Federal Aid
Only One Public College Failed a Government Accountability Test. Here’s Why It Won’t Be Punished.
In theory, institutions that fall short of standards for the percentage of students who default on federal loans stand to lose their federal aid. In practice, that rarely happens.
