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March 15, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 65, Issue 26
Stacey Abrams, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi will speak at commencements this spring.
News
Enterprise is a big employer of college graduates, and what it’s looking for may surprise you.
News
He talks to The Chronicle about the successes and controversies of his presidency, and why the university is a “sacred space.”
Chronicle List
By Chronicle Staff
At some colleges, students take being taught by tenured or tenure-track professors for granted. At other colleges, that seldom happens.
News
A passion for helping students get access to education drives leaders of advancement offices and foundations at community colleges.
News
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
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
By Zipporah Osei
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
The idea that we need an executive order to ensure open debate is absurd.
Online Expansion
Its reasons include a need for enrollment and revenue. But competing with existing national online colleges will be tough — and expensive.
Academic Freedom
By Lily Jackson
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
“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
By Zipporah Osei
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
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
Competition in the application-processing industry spawned federal litigation. The Common Application and CollegeNET just agreed to settle it.
Faculty
“We have to start asking real questions about whether or not academic freedom even applies to minority professors in America anymore,” he said.