April 12, 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education Volume 65, Issue 30-
NewsTransitions: New President at Georgia Gwinnett College, Chief of Vanderbilt U. to Step Down
Indiana University at South Bend’s interim chancellor will lead Georgia Gwinnett. Nicholas S. Zeppos will step down after 11 years at the helm of Vanderbilt. -
News
Mathematics, Mountain Climbing, and Being a Mentor to Women in a Male-Dominated Field
It might be difficult to understand her work in partial differential equations, but her contributions as a mentor in her field are clear. -
News
Women Who Lead the Colleges Their Fathers Did
Watching their fathers serve as presidents paved the way for these women to lead those same campuses. -
Chronicle List
Colleges With the Best and Worst 6-Year Graduation Rates
Of the 13 private nonprofit colleges that had graduation rates of 95 percent or above in 2017, seven were in the Ivy League. -
News
Transitions: New President at Endicott College, California State U. at Northridge Names Provost
The president of Saint Anselm College will lead Endicott. An interim college president in Georgia will be the next chief academic officer at Northridge. -
Backgrounder
How America’s College-Closure Crisis Leaves Families Devastated
More than 500,000 students have been displaced in the past five years, many of them working adults who had hoped that college would be their path to the middle class. -
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News
In Kentucky, a Hunger Strike for Basic Support Forces a President’s Hand
The University of Kentucky is the latest campus where students want the administration to pay more attention to their basic needs. -
Academic Freedom
A University Wants to Assess Bias in the Classroom. Are Student Evaluations the Best Way to Do It?
Villanova University added new diversity and inclusion questions to its course survey. Some professors, conservative and liberal alike, worry they could be used against them. -
News
Congress Wants a Say in the Title IX Debate. What Might That Look Like?
On Tuesday senators discussed how they might address campus sexual assault, including hot-button issues like cross-examination of accusers, in the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. -
News
Aspen Prize Is Awarded to 2 Florida Colleges for Student Accessibility and Success
The recipients, Indian River State College and Miami Dade College, continue a tradition of winning by community colleges in the state. -
Legal
2 Students Face Criminal Charges After Calling Border Agents ‘Murderers’
The University of Arizona students, who were protesting the agents’ appearance at an on-campus career fair, have been arrested and cited for misdemeanors. -
Campus Speech
If There Is a Free-Speech ‘Crisis’ on Campus, PEN America Says, Lawmakers Are Making It Worse
The national debate has become “a deeply partisan feud, with each side trying to catch the other in transgressive acts that can be amplified to rile up the faithful.” -
News
For Students on the Quarter System, Landing a Summer Internship Can Bring Complications
Because they finish classes about a month behind their peers on the semester calendar, critics say they are at an unexpected disadvantage in their job search. -
Faculty Diversity
Yale Professors’ Protest Casts Doubt on a Big Faculty-Diversity Initiative
Thirteen scholars say they’ll cut ties with the university’s ethnicity, race, and migration program, which they say has been stifled by a lack of resources and stature, despite a $50-million effort to diversify the faculty. -
The Review
Some People Want Lottery-Based Admissions. That’s a Terrible Idea.
The antidote to randomness in the college-admissions process isn’t more randomness. -
Video
‘We Are on Our Way Out’
When Argosy University, a for-profit college system, suddenly closed in March, Kendrick Harrison didn’t just lose his foothold in higher education. He and his family lost their home. -
Admissions
California Lawmakers Propose Reforms in Admissions Process. Other States Could Follow.
The proposals include a review of whether ACT or SAT scores are necessary and a ban on preferences for the children of donors and alumni. -
News
In Urging Faculty Not to Unionize, Marquette Cites Catholic Identity
Some Roman Catholic colleges say that because of their unique religious missions, they should be allowed to decide for themselves whether to let their adjuncts unionize. -
Legal
Former U. of Oklahoma Dean Sues President, Provost, and University for Bias and Free-Speech Violation
A onetime dean of international studies says the institution paid her less because she is a woman and retaliated against her for speaking her mind. -
Campus Safety
After Key Vote, Johns Hopkins Will Probably Get Its Own Police Force
Despite vocal protests from students and community members, Maryland’s House of Delegates voted to approve a bill to create an armed police force for the university. -
Athletics
How Dozens of Pro Athletes Came to Study Activism on a College Campus
For professors at Morehouse College, the three-day workshop represents a chance to extend their teachings beyond the traditional classroom, to people who are in a position to be widely heard. -
News
Yes, Students at Sarah Lawrence Are Demanding Free Detergent. But There’s More to It Than You Might Think.
The request has drawn ridicule, especially from conservative news outlets. It’s part of activists’ broader push, though, to make the college rethink how it meets the needs of low-income students. -
Advice
Advice on Advising: How to Mentor Minority Students
“I did not always understand how much labor, thought, and care went into meaningful mentoring, how emotionally draining that work can be, and how little prepared I was for it.”
