Cover Story
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Corporate Ed
Boeing Wanted Better Engineers. Higher Education Would Never Be the Same.
In its efforts to “aggressively influence” colleges, the company succeeded beyond its wildest dreams.
Highlights
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News
What Real Change Looks Like
Innovation is now a currency of its own, a standard by which institutions are judged and even ranked. Experts offer three guiding principles for how to make it work.
Innovators: The Digital Student
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Backgrounder
Students Under Surveillance?
Colleges are tracking them with greater sophistication, but the students don’t seem to care. Should you? -
News
Using Data-Tracking Technology Wisely
Even if students don’t particularly care that their data may be tracked, colleges that go down this path must do so carefully. “The technology moves quicker than the legislation or the policy side that is always playing catch-up,” says Brian Kelly, director of cybersecurity for Educause, a… -
News
How One College Helps All Students Gain Digital Skills
Today’s traditional-age students are digital natives. But that doesn’t mean they have the digital skills they’ll need to thrive at work and beyond. -
News
For This Campus, Choosing Textbooks Has Gotten a Lot More Complicated
Colleges are wrestling with a host of issues as they seek to lower costs and widen access, allow professors to choose their own classroom materials, and maintain quality. -
Commentary
Preparing Today’s Students for an AI Future
We can’t expect technologists alone to foresee the opportunities and face challenges. -
Commentary
Colleges Must Play a Role in Bridging Ethics and Technology
Students should be taught about the complex relationships of science, technology, innovation, policy, and society. -
Commentary
How Blockchain Technology Will Disrupt Higher Education
The technology emphasizes that students are more than transcripts and test scores. -
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We All Need to Be Data People
Data literacy, from top to bottom at an institution, is critical to improving student success. -
News
Before Adopting Classroom Technology, Figure Out Your Goals
Just because you can use something doesn’t mean you should.
Commentary
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The Review
Colleges Must Do More to Defend Chinese Students
Protecting the rights of foreign students and scholars is in the larger national interest. -
Advice
The Community-College Application: 7 Ways to Improve Your Odds
Hint for candidates: Why should we seriously consider you when you haven’t seriously considered us?
Also In the Issue
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News
Transitions: New School Names Next Chief Executive, Lincoln Land Community College Hires New Vice President
Dwight McBride, Emory University’s provost, will lead New School. Lincoln Land’s new vice president for administrative services came from another college in Illinois. -
Chronicle List
How Far Do Colleges Go to Reach Exclusively Online Students?
Public institutions tend to find online students closer to their campuses, while many private nonprofit colleges cast a wider net. -
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New Role: Taking an Unblinking Look at a University’s Past
Colleges with historic ties to slavery are creating panels and, in one case, a new position devoted to institutional history. -
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The Sacklers Gave Millions to Higher Ed. Here’s How Scholars on One Campus Feel About Taking the Money.
The University of Connecticut says it will redirect some money it received from a family foundation of the opioid manufacturer. Faculty members are wrestling with the moral calculus. -
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Transitions: New Chief Named at U. of Mississippi, Park U. Selects New Finance Chief
The University of Mississippi’s new chancellor used to serve as commissioner of the state’s Institutions of Higher Learning. -
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An Iranian Student’s Visa Was Voided on His Way to America. He Still Doesn’t Know Why.
“You are not entering that plane, period,” a customs official told him. Then he took out a pen and wrote “cancelled” in capital letters and drew a line through his visa. -
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Mississippi’s Chancellor Search Provoked a Fury. Will It Change Anything?
The university landed on its new leader through a hastily improvised process. One expert said such moves have become more common as governing boards grow emboldened. -
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Alaska Board Suspends Consideration of Controversial Merger
Vote follows a meeting with the university’s accreditor, who says the chain of command needs to be clear. -
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Northeastern U. Senior Wins Chronicle’s Journalism Prize
Zipporah Osei was presented with the 2019 David W. Miller Award for Young Journalists. -
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A Judge Advised Harvard to Give Its Admissions Officers Training to Stop Bias. Will That Help?
The reach into the admissions world of training to avoid implicit bias has been limited, and some question how it could be carried out. -
The Chronicle Interview
Chanel Miller Describes How Stanford Failed Her
After Brock Turner sexually assaulted her, in 2015, Miller wrote a searing victim-impact statement as “Emily Doe” that went viral. In her new memoir, in which she speaks publicly for the first time, she has harsh words for the university. -
News
If You Get Hit by a Bus, You Get Free Tuition. Wait, What?
Two pieces of macabre mythology have an unstoppable appeal on campuses nationwide. But they’re not true. -
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Grim Topic, Festive Events: Upbeat College Health Fairs Focus on Suicide Prevention
The Jordan Porco Foundation has helped organize hundreds of Fresh Check Days on campuses in 42 states.