Feb. 8, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 65, Issue 21-
NewsCan Data Make You a Better Teacher?
Colleges are trying new ways to help faculty members use research and analytics to shape what they do in the classroom. -
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The Review
This Is Higher Education’s Gilded Age
A gulf has opened between rich, elite colleges and all the others. -
The Review
Higher Education Has Always Been Commercial
Its embrace of pop culture, mass media, and marketing has sustained it. -
News
Has Title IX Gone Too Far? This Professor Makes the Case
The Boston College professor argues that civil-rights officials have used the gender-equity law to propagate a particular view of sexual harassment and gender identity. -
News
Transitions: Coast Guard Academy Selects New Leader, Auburn U. Names Chief of Enrollment
The United States Coast Guard Academy’s next superintendent will start this summer. The University of West Florida’s vice president for enrollment will move to Auburn. -
The Review
How the Right Learned to Loathe Higher Education
Conservative dislike of the academy isn’t new. But it is alarming. -
Chronicle List
Which Colleges Have the Largest Endowments?
Colleges that participated in the 2018 Nacubo-TIAA Study of Endowments returned an average of 8.2 percent on their endowments for the 2018 fiscal year. -
Faculty Hiring
More Colleges Are Asking Scholars for Diversity Statements. Here’s What You Need to Know.
The documents outline academics’ experience working with people from different backgrounds. As the requests become more common, they’re drawing more scrutiny. -
The Review
College Presidents Can Do a Lot. But They Can’t End Racism.
It is ridiculous to demand that the University of Oklahoma’s leader resign after just six months on the job. -
Race on Campus
Seeking a Community, Black Students Turn to Online Chats
African-American students at predominantly white colleges create safe spaces through group chats, where they build networks and sow the seeds of student activism. -
Chronicle List
Which Colleges Grant the Most Bachelor’s Degrees in Foreign Languages?
Brigham Young University was the only private nonprofit institution among the top 10 universities for awarding bachelor’s degrees in foreign languages in 2016-17. -
The Edge
5 Takeaways From 24 Hours at a Major Teaching Conference
The annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities is a rich mix of professors and administrators. Here are a few things that stood out. -
Teaching and Free Speech
When Online Trolls Show Up in Class, Should Professors Be Able to Ban Them?
Professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are debating what to do, if anything, when a student enrolls in a class after harassing the professor on social media. -
News
Controversial Emails to International Students at Duke Suggest a Greater Struggle: Assimilation
The messages, which led an official to resign and the university to apologize, highlight one of the many cultural slights that the students often face on American campuses. -
Admissions
Why Colleges May Be Chasing the Wrong Numbers to Enroll More Low-Income Students
A new paper by two well-known researchers argues that colleges are oversimplifying the quest to add needier students to their enrollments. -
Campus Safety
Emergency Blue-Light Phones Are a Symbol of Safety. Is Symbolism Worth Thousands?
The iconic call boxes have been the colorful guard over campuses since the 1990s. Some colleges are decommissioning them as technology advances, but some aren’t. Why keep them? -
News
Hired to Fix Finances, Oklahoma’s New President Now Faces a More Delicate Task
James Gallogly, criticized for slashing spending and not responding forcefully enough to racism, seeks common ground after a corporate career in which he could just issue orders. -
In the Classroom
State Lawmaker Criticizes U. of Wisconsin Professor’s Syllabus Over Characterization of Trump
The document describes the president as, to some people, “a spectacularly unqualified and catastrophically unfit egomaniac.” -
News
Community-College Professor Is Fired After Making a Nazi Salute at a System Meeting
The faculty member compared administrators to the genocidal, fascist group during discussion of a merger of campuses in the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system. -
News
Buoyed by Solid Economies, Most States Spend More on Higher Education
State appropriations to the sector rose by almost 4 percent over the last year, according to an annual survey. -
News
Looking to Improve Students’ Mental Health? Ask What They Need
The new world of mental-health services includes food pantries and bus tickets, and involves the entire campus. -
Advice
You’re a Full Professor. Now What?
Here are four questions to help tenured professors turn a “midcareer slump” into a new mind-set.
