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The Anxiety of ‘Doing Womanhood Correctly’ in Academe
Grace Lavery talks about her body, free speech, and finding transcendence in a hot tub in Sedona, Ariz. -
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Selected New Books on Higher Education
Among the topics are professional development for midcareer faculty members and ways to inspire students to write better. -
The Review
Yes, We Need Accountability. But We Also Need Institutional Diversity.
The decision to remove the accreditation of Bennett College, a women’s HBCU, highlights the need to accommodate varied missions. -
Innovation
Small Colleges Get Experimental in Bid to Survive
War rooms, donor outreach, and cutting majors are among the tactics they are using to make themselves sustainable. -
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3 Small Colleges in the South Take 3 Very Different Approaches
Find out more about what small colleges are doing to make themselves sustainable. -
BACKGROUNDER
A New Path to Atonement
Conflicts have mired the efforts of Georgetown University and the Jesuits to make amends for their involvement with slavery. Now a more lasting reconciliation may be in sight. -
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What I’m Reading: ‘The Hard Thing About Hard Things’
A book intended for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became an arts and humanities dean’s new bible. -
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Hiring and Promotion Hazards in Academe
Even the most virtuous faculty members and administrators involved in employment decisions may have biases that could lead to lawsuits. -
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At Michigan State, a Disruptive Presidency That Few Could Muster the Will to End
Trustees seemed paralyzed by the notion that changing interim leaders was somehow worse than all the damage John Engler was doing. -
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Transitions: First Female President to Lead Elizabethtown College, Grinnell College Selects Chief Academic Officer
Cecilia M. McCormick will become chief executive at Elizabethtown in July. Grinnell’s next provost comes from DePauw University. -
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For Alumnae, the Fight to Keep Bennett College Open Is a Fight for Black Women in Academe
The college, which has appealed a recent decision to revoke its accreditation, is one of only two historically black women’s colleges in the country. -
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Ending Ban on Pell Grants for Prisoners Is Said to Yield ‘Cascade’ of Benefits
Right now just 9 percent of prisoners get some form of postsecondary education, a new report says. Increasing that number would reduce recidivism, expand the labor pool, and give them better-paying jobs. -
Where Folt Came From
UNC’s Chancellor Was Criticized as a Consensus Builder. How She Departed May Have Changed Everything.
Folt’s decision to remove Silent Sam’s pedestal as she announced her resignation in January won plaudits from some on campus, but she may have worsened the challenges her successor will face. -
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In Massachusetts, the Market for Small, Liberal-Arts Colleges Is in Decline
Hampshire College’s announcement that it’s seeking a partner to stabilize its finances isn’t a dire warning of its possible demise, but it does risk scaring off current and prospective faculty members and students. -
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Public Colleges Might Escape a Tax on Million-Dollar Employees. Here’s Who They Are.
Because of imprecise language in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Duke will pay more tax than the University of Alabama on their expensive coaches’ salaries. -
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If History Is Any Guide, End of Federal Shutdown Won’t Bring Quick Relief for College Researchers
The NSF and the NIH had huge backlogs of grant applications when the then-historic 1996 shutdown concluded. -
The Review
Being Poor in America’s Most Prestigious M.F.A. Program
From the workshop to the food bank. -
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Stay Awake for These 5 Issues During Negotiated Rulemaking
Though the process can be less than exciting, the U.S. Department of Education’s latest effort to rewrite regulations could have lasting effects for colleges. -
Gender Diversity
Can Economics Fix Its Gender-Imbalance Problem? It’ll Take More Than Research, Women Say
At an annual conference and in online forums, economists are acknowledging the problem in their field and asking, What more can be done? -
Advice
Administration 101: 4 Phrases Academic Administrators Should Never Say
Whether you are a chair, a dean, or a provost, the academic freedom that you defend vociferously for others is constricted for you. -
Advice
What We Hire in Now: English by the Grim Numbers
Across the entire discipline, there’s only one subfield where the number of tenure-track postings is higher today than it was 20 years ago.