Dec. 21, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 65, Issue 16-
TeachingColleges Step Up Professional Development for Adjuncts
They make up the vast majority of the faculty, and they teach 40 percent of introductory humanities courses. Student retention and a college’s overall success rest largely on their shoulders. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education: Princeton Gets $65 Million
The donation will help the university expand undergraduate enrollment. Gifts to other colleges were for honors scholarships and a theater renovation. -
The Review
Why We Need to Rethink Remediation
Shifting remedial studies to high schools may benefit students and colleges, but new research shows that improving students’ chances of success is more complicated than that. -
From the Archives
How Kevin Kruse Became History’s Attack Dog
A few years ago, the Princeton historian brought his scholarship to hostile territory: Twitter. It made him famous and sent a message to the field that a serious scholar can also throw punches. -
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Teaching
A ‘Hidden Curriculum’ for Latino Students
What Latino students learn in college is amplified by whatever support and hostility they encounter there, says the author of a new book. -
News
Selected New Books on Higher Education
The latest titles include a guide to investigating student misconduct and a description of a new interactive model of teaching. -
News
Transitions: New President Selected at Wagner College, U. of Texas at San Antonio Names New Technology Chief
Wagner’s next chief is provost at Franklin and Marshall College. San Antonio’s vice president for information management comes from the University of North Texas. -
Publishing
In Talks With Elsevier, UCLA Reaches for a Novel Bargaining Chip: Its Faculty
Campus officials have asked professors to consider declining to review articles for the publishing giant’s journals, and to consider open-access journals instead. -
News
Breaking Open the ‘Black Box’ of Elite Admissions
Noble Jones, an academic researcher, got to peek inside the admissions process of one selective liberal-arts college. What he found sheds light on the “garbage can” model of decision making. -
News
U. of Minnesota’s Presidential Search Provokes Key Question: What’s Behind Door No. 2?
The search is down to a sole finalist after two contenders declined to be publicly named, and one regent says the imperfect process may also have violated open-meetings laws. -
Executive Pay
2 Wisconsin Chancellors, Tainted by Controversies, Are Denied Raises
Joe Gow brought an adult-film star to the La Crosse campus for free-speech week; Beverly Kopper’s husband was found responsible for sexually harassing employees at UW-Whitewater. -
The Review
Teaching the Students We Have, Not the Students We Wish We Had
A recent essay that was critical of student evaluations was also unfairly critical of today’s students. -
Scholar Activist
When Neo-Nazis and Antifascists Clash, This Professor Wants to Be in the Thick of It
For Billie Murray, getting close to her research subjects occasionally means choking through tear gas or dodging flash grenades. -
From the Archives
‘Fear, Intimidation, Bullying’: Inside One of the Most Scathing Accreditation Reports in Recent Memory
Master’s University and Seminary was raked over the coals for “unmatched” lapses in ethics and accountability, and reviewers said the rot begins at the top. Can the institution make change around its powerful president? -
Advice
Graduate School Should Be Challenging, Not Traumatic
No, doctoral students complaining about a toxic adviser aren’t just whining about the workload.
