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22 mai 2017

The Approaching Storm? Or Impending Drought?

HomeIf recent events are any indication, students who serve as resident advisers are mad as hell and may not be willing to take it anymore, warns Lee Burdette Williams. Can we manage residence halls without them. More...

22 mai 2017

Post-Truth and First-Year Writing

HomeSuch a class can provide a model for constructive, fact-based public discourse and stand as a model of principled resistance in a “fake news” era, argues John Duffy. More...

22 mai 2017

Trump Has It Right

HomeHe can sometimes stumble into the correct position when trying to appease a constituency, as is the case with his approach to political speech by nonprofit groups, argues John K. Wilson. More...

22 mai 2017

Not Coddling but Learning

HomeWhy would we expect, ask John C. and Christine K. Cavanaugh, that students who have come of age surrounded by people who largely look and think as they do will be highly skilled at handling disagreeable situations. More...

22 mai 2017

What Boards Are Missing: Curiosity

HomeCollege and university boards have much about which to be curious these days, argue Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower, but too many struggle with asking questions at all, let alone good or great ones. More...

22 mai 2017

The Financier and the Professor

HomeBy Leonard Cassuto. Leonard Cassuto writes of the person with whom he shared his high school, college and graduate school years -- and how the story of the divergent paths they later took continues to vex him. More...

22 mai 2017

A Gun, a Threat and a Dismissal

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. At Spalding U, a white faculty member complained that nonwhite colleagues were left out of warnings that they could have been in danger. AAUP objects to the university's response: firing the professor who complained. More...

21 mai 2017

Mixed Views on Higher Ed

HomeBy Paul Fain. Americans see the work force and societal value of getting a college degree, a survey from New America finds, but community colleges have more support than do other sectors. More...

21 mai 2017

Who Wants a Neurotic Professor?

HomeBy John Elmes for Times Higher Education. Study examines traits British students like -- and don’t like -- in instructors.
New research has revealed students’ preferences for their lecturers’ personalities, and if you are neurotic, disagreeable, closed off and unreliable, you may want to look away now. More...

21 mai 2017

Trickle-Down Antagonism

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Right-wing national organizations are directly influencing college and university GOP groups, giving them money and supplies to spread their messages, but on many campuses they seem more focused on attracting controversy than converts. More...

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