Nov. 2, 2018

Melinda Treadwell will lead Keene State College.

News

Transitions: New President Selected at Hilbert College, Mount Wachusett Names Academic-Affairs Chief

Compiled by Julia Piper

Michael S. Brophy, who will lead Hilbert, was chief at Benedictine University. Paul Hernandez will take on the newly created role at Mount Wachusett Community College.

News

Private Companies Are Destabilizing Academic Research. How Will Scholars Respond?

By Marc Parry

Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council, discusses negotiating access to Facebook and building a new scholarly infrastructure for the big-data era.

Jena Martin (right), a professor of law at West Virginia U., listens as her colleague Amy Cyphert speaks at a meeting of their weekly writing group. Martin started the group after learning about how such support systems can help scholars meet their professional goals.

News

Want to Keep Your Talented Professors? Sponsor Their Professional Development

By Kathryn Masterson

When you hired them, you made a great investment. To keep them, help them hone their skills and manage their work-life balance so they don’t burn out.

Dayton has long been a center for innovation, and it’s still a hub for aerospace, bioscience, and robotics. But just 17 percent of the city’s working-age adults have bachelor’s degrees, about half the rate of the country as a whole.

Public Opinion

Inside One City’s Love-Hate Relationship With Higher Ed

By Karin Fischer

Most Americans think higher education is headed in the wrong direction, but they love their local college. Why?

Chronicle List

Flagship Universities With the Highest In-State and Out-of-State Tuition and Fees

By Chronicle Staff

Large increases in out-of-state tuition and fees over the past decade did not seem to have a negative impact on the enrollment of nonstate residents.

News

Transitions: New Chief at Baltimore City Community College, Heritage U. Names Provost

Compiled by Julia Piper

The next president of Baltimore City Community College comes from Rhodes State College. Heritage’s interim provost has been named to the position permanently.

Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist at Arizona State U., agreed to retire at the end of the academic year. "Onward and hopefully upward," he tweeted.

Sexual Harassment

3 Revelations From the Lawrence Krauss Sexual-Harassment Report

By Katherine Mangan

The physicist agreed to retire from Arizona State University after an investigation uncovered evidence that he had groped and made sexually charged remarks to women.

As a trial in Boston entered its second week, a higher-education expert testified that Harvard U. could achieve its desired racial diversity without considering race in admissions.

Admissions

Harvard Is Challenged on Whether Socioeconomic Status Should Replace Race as Admissions Factor

By Nell Gluckman

As a trial in Boston entered its second week, a higher-education expert testified that the university could achieve its desired racial diversity without considering race in admissions.

Admissions

Harvard Trial Reveals What Admissions Deans Are Made Of: Contradictions

By Eric Hoover

William Fitzsimmons’ testimony revealed a lot about how the university selects applicants. It also revealed something about the dean — and the complex job he has held for 32 years.

A rally in 2017 protested the Trump administration’s revocation of federal guidance allowing students to use the school bathrooms of their gender identity.

Gender Identity

Federal Proposal to Redefine Gender Throws College Policies Into Uncertainty

By Emma Pettit

The proposed restriction contradicts current case law and would create “administrative chaos,” said one scholar who studies transgender issues.

Maria Treviño-Rodriguez (center), a U. of Houston junior who works about 40 hours a week, leads a march to Houston’s Harris County Jail in 2016 to protest a law that enables local police forces to carry out the work of immigration-enforcement officers.

News

Colleges Should Enhance Resources for Undocumented Students, Report Urges. Here’s How Some Are Doing That.

By Andy Tsubasa Field

A surprisingly large percentage of the immigrants both study and work full time, according to TheDream.US, which says campuses need to step up their services.

‘A Wanton Excess of Rhetorical Bloodletting That Leaves All Stained’Philosophy’s toxically pugilistic online culture 1

The Review

When Argument Becomes Bloodsport

By Amy Olberding

Philosophy is mired in wanton pugilism.

A march featuring the right-wing speaker Milo Yiannopoulos drew a crowd last year at the U. of California at Davis. The statewide College Republicans have released an inflammatory platform that rips college culture using hard-right rhetoric.

News

‘Degenerate and Murderous’: California Campus Republicans’ Platform Attacks College Culture

By Chris Quintana

The statewide group rips birth-control funding, tolerance of transgender people, and support for Muslim groups in a combative document that one scholar says veers right of even many conservative students.

The Review

Lessons I Learned — and You Can, Too — From My ‘Today’ Show Appearance

By Cynthia Miller-Idriss

It is crucial that academics engage with the media, especially these days. Just as crucial is that they know the potential pitfalls.

Maya Tolstoy (shown here at home with her son), a professor at Columbia, leads the committee that studied how various factors affect the careers of women and scholars of color. Almost 60 percent of women in the humanities who were surveyed reported being dissatisfied with their current child-care arrangements.

News

What Factors Hold Back the Careers of Women and Faculty of Color? Columbia U. Went Looking for Answers

By Audrey Williams June

The university has released detailed data on how salary, workload, work-life balance, and climate issues affect scholars’ experience on campus.

The Review

Stop the Campus Opioid Epidemic — Before It Becomes One

By Susan Blumenthal and David Xiang

Many colleges are strengthening their addiction-response plans, but more needs to be done, like broader medication-assisted treatments tailored to students’ specific needs.