March 15, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 65, Issue 26-
Who’s Speaking at Commencement?
Stacey Abrams, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi will speak at commencements this spring. -
News
Why Thousands of College Grads Start Their Careers at a Rental-Car Company
Enterprise is a big employer of college graduates, and what it’s looking for may surprise you. -
News
From Strikes to Streaking, NYU’s John Sexton Has Seen It All
He talks to The Chronicle about the successes and controversies of his presidency, and why the university is a “sacred space.” -
Chronicle List
Where Are Students Most and Least Likely to Be Taught by Tenured and Tenure-Track Professors?
At some colleges, students take being taught by tenured or tenure-track professors for granted. At other colleges, that seldom happens. -
News
The Job in Which Every Single Dollar Matters
A passion for helping students get access to education drives leaders of advancement offices and foundations at community colleges. -
News
Transitions: Community College of Beaver County Names First African-American President, New Provost at U. of Georgia
At Beaver County, Roger W. Davis moved from an interim to permanent role. S. Jack Hu will become Georgia’s chief academic officer in July. -
News
A Year After a Sexual-Harassment Crisis, Has Harvard Kept Its Promises?
University officials promised to “promptly and fairly” investigate a prominent professor accused of sexual harassment over decades. Many of the women who accused him now say they think Harvard is dragging its feet. -
Campus Safety
As Johns Hopkins Asks for Its Own Police, Residents React With Suspicion
Legislation that would create an armed campus force has Baltimore residents split, with some acknowledging a violent-crime problem while others say the university is trying to “throw its weight around.” -
The Review
Thank Goodness Trump Is Here to Save Free Speech
The idea that we need an executive order to ensure open debate is absurd. -
Online Expansion
UMass System Aims to Join the Mega-University Club
Its reasons include a need for enrollment and revenue. But competing with existing national online colleges will be tough — and expensive. -
Academic Freedom
Legal Scholars Don’t Know the Details of Trump’s Order on Campus Speech. But They Think It’s a Mistake.
The University of Chicago’s president called it “a grave error.” Law professors said it was constitutionally suspect. And one noted that politicians routinely misconstrue the issue. -
News
A Lesson From UC’s Split With Elsevier: Keep the Faculty in the Loop
“I would not expect that this issue will go away,” said the executive director of the Association of Research Libraries. So other universities should take note. -
News
Lawsuit Alleges Professor Stole Student’s Research and Defrauded University of Millions
The professor, who resigned from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in January amid allegations of misconduct, has allegedly made $1.5 million off the sale of a graduate research assistant’s invention, and could make much more. -
News
This Scientist Was the Architect of #MeTooSTEM. Now Others Are Fighting to Save Her Job.
BethAnn McLaughlin, a Vanderbilt neuroscientist, was denied tenure after she became embroiled in a messy situation involving allegations of harassment, retaliation, and threatening comments. -
Legal
Admissions Confidential: Antitrust Lawsuit Ends in Secret Settlement
Competition in the application-processing industry spawned federal litigation. The Common Application and CollegeNET just agreed to settle it. -
Faculty
Tommy Curry, Whose Remarks on Race Made Him a Target, Is Leaving the U.S. for Scotland
“We have to start asking real questions about whether or not academic freedom even applies to minority professors in America anymore,” he said.
