April 5, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 65, Issue 29-
NewsColleges Are Banding Together Digitally to Help Students Succeed. Here’s How.
The institutions are upgrading learning platforms, bargaining with vendors, trading course offerings, and collecting and analyzing vast data that could change how they teach. -
The Review
The False Promise of Elite Education
If we really want a diverse society, a focus on the Ivy League is woefully misplaced. -
News
Transitions: U. of Southern California Names New President, Chief of U. of Missouri to Retire
Carol L. Folt, former chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will lead the University of Southern California. -
Backgrounder
How International Education’s Golden Age Lost Its Sheen
America’s global academic engagement began as a response to 9/11 and ended with the embrace of Trump’s America First platform. -
The Review
Dear Humanists: Fear Not the Digital Revolution
Advances in computing will benefit traditional scholarship — not compete with it. -
The Review
The Digital Humanities Debacle
Computational literary study offers correctives to problems that literary scholarship was never confused about in the first place. -
News
What Is the Future of Town-Gown Relations? These Researchers Think They Know
A new report analyzing 100 urban campuses’ partnerships points to a need to repair “broken trust” and build “reciprocal, local relationships” in their communities. -
The Review
This Is How You Kill a Profession
How did we decide that professors don’t deserve job security or a decent salary? -
Student Recruiting
Public Universities Work Hard to Make Up for Budget Cuts. But In-State Students May Be Paying the Price.
A study finds that the institutions, trying to offset drops in state support, are using out-of-state recruiting practices biased against low-income and minority students in their own states. -
News
After the Elsevier ‘Tipping Point,’ Research Libraries Consider Their Options
Something’s got to give, librarians are saying. Their budgets are flat, and prices of bulk journal subscriptions, dubbed “big deals,” keep going up. -
News
Tufts Will Investigate Its Ties to the Sackler Family. Here’s What Other Universities Are Doing.
As legal pressure mounts against the makers of OxyContin, universities that have been the beneficiaries of their donations are being pressed to evaluate their relationship with the family. -
Academic Freedom
A Professor Said Liberals on the Faculty Aren’t as Big a Worry as Those in the Administration. That’s When His Troubles Started.
Calling for more ideological balance among administrators and the programming they offer to students, the Sarah Lawrence College professor of politics ran into bitter criticism on his campus. -
News
Duke’s Nursing School Failed Them. They Say Their Race Played a Role.
Two current students, and a former one, say they faced bias. The accusations come only two months after controversy over treatment of Asian students in another program. -
News
Duke to Pay $112.5 Million to Settle Scientific-Misconduct Lawsuit
The university is alleged to have accepted $200 million in federal research grants after submitting falsified and fabricated lab results. -
Faculty and Politics
The Two Sides of the Free-Speech ‘Crisis,’ in One Fox News Broadcast
Conservative pundits say liberal criticism of controversial speakers chills the climate for speech. Some liberals and academics say the real victims are professors who have become the targets of right-wing media outlets. -
News
Trump’s Free-Speech Order Could Have Been Harsher. But Higher-Ed Leaders Still Don’t Approve.
While the language is restrained, skeptics worry about how federal agencies will determine if a college is violating free-speech laws and policies. -
News
Ole Miss Moves to Relocate Confederate Statue Out of Campus Center After Protests
When several campus governing bodies voted to move the monument, the interim chancellor, Larry D. Sparks, said the university had agreed that it should be “relocated to a more suitable location.” -
Faculty Hiring
A College on Long Island Abruptly Closed. The Faculty’s Fraught Job Searches Followed.
The thousands of faculty members who have lost their jobs in the shutdowns of small, private colleges might wonder what path is best taken next. They might look to professors at Dowling College, which closed in 2016. -
Legal
A Harvard Scientist Commissioned Photos of Slaves in 1850. A Lawsuit Says the University Is Still Profiting From Them.
The portraits of an enslaved father and his daughter ought to belong to a descendant, rather than to the university, says a lawsuit. -
The Review
Assessment Is an Enormous Waste of Time
The armies of consultants, software vendors, journals, foundations, institutes, and organizations are operating on a false premise. -
News
Arizona State Will Create a For-Profit Spinoff to Court Students in the Work Force
The chief backer of the venture, which has not been previously disclosed, is an investment fund that was headed by a financier charged in the admissions-bribery case. -
Advice
I Don’t Regret Not Having Kids, and I Don’t Resent Yours, Either
A “childfree” academic mulls the delicate kid issue in the context of teaching, tenure, and faculty life.
