Feb. 1, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 65, Issue 20-
Leadership8 Deans Share: What I Wish I Had Known
They identify practical training and preparation that would have made their lives easier in the new job. -
Chronicle List
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education: U. of Virginia Gets $120 Million for Data Science
An alumni couple gave UVa the large donation, while Northeastern University and Spelman College received big gifts from members of their Boards of Trustees. -
News
A Long, Lonely Path
Here’s what the journey to an American college is like for students from the other side of the world. -
News
Transitions: New President at Allegheny College, Tufts U. Names New Provost
Hilary Link will become chief executive at Allegheny in July. Tuft’s next provost is the engineering dean at Northeastern University. -
News
Phishing Scheme Targets Professors’ Desire to Please Their Deans — All for $500 in Gift Cards
The scam relies on understanding scholarly workplace dynamics and exploiting the trove of information on college websites. -
Labor Issues
‘Talking Is Over’: Hundreds of Professors Strike at Wright State U.
Both sides point to mutual mistrust between the top brass and the faculty. -
Race on Campus
Oklahoma’s President Urges Angry Crowd to Help Him Fix ‘Shameful Moment’
After another racist video went viral, students and faculty members at the university rallied to demand “zero tolerance for hate speech” and a stronger commitment to diversity. -
Abroad at Home
Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years
Higher education saw a net loss of just one foreign-language program from 2009 to 2013, according to the Modern Language Association. From 2013 to 2016, the loss grew to 651. -
Admissions
Want to Learn How the World Sees Your College? Look on YouTube
Students are broadcasting their college experience to big audiences online. Among the viewers are high-schoolers eager to get a closer look at a prospective college. -
Admissions
That Other Affirmative-Action Case: The Battle Over UNC’s Admissions Policies Heats Up
Students for Fair Admissions alleges that Chapel Hill gives “significant racial preferences” to underrepresented minority applicants. The university calls its approach “constitutionally sound.” -
Politics
Liberty U. Senior Official Accepted Bag of Money for Helping Trump in Online Polls, Report Says
The previously unreported connections are the latest in a longstanding series of ties between the president and the Christian university in Virginia. -
The Review
College Campuses Should Not Be Safe Spaces
Controversy over the removal of the Silent Sam statue serves as a reminder that it is not a college’s duty to protect people from ideas they find offensive or distasteful. -
News
Professor Resigns Amid Accusations That He Exploited Grad Students With ‘Modern Slavery’
A tenured pharmacy instructor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City has stepped down amid allegations that he forced students to be his servants. -
Academic Life
‘My Merit and My Blackness Are Fused to Each Other’
Dan-el Padilla Peralta was told at a conference that he had been hired because he’s black. He reflects on the whiteness of classics and why incremental change is not enough. -
Advice
What Advantage? A Few Reality Checks for Internal Candidates
Five lessons from the experience of applying for the tenure-track version of your previously contingent job.
