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By Lori A. Flores. I received my Ph.D. almost four years ago, but I vividly remember the anxieties I felt at this time of year as I struggled to make it to my dissertation finish line. March had turned into April, my dissertation was due June 1, and going on the job market during my final year of grad school had taxed my mind, body and spirit. Read more...

By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. This isn’t a weird question at all! It’s actually a common one. Figuring out how to respond to an invitation to write a textbook is important, but learning how to strategically evaluate the flood of opportunities that will come to you as a tenure-track professor is even more important. Read more...

By Jake Livengood. My bracket is busted! 
You may have heard this from discouraged coworkers and friends around this time of the year as college basketball tournaments wind down. (Or you may have ignored this as a non-basketball fan). Read more...

By Ben Castleman Saul Schwartz and Sandy Baum. The federal government has made significant investments over the last several decades toward reducing socioeconomic inequalities in college access and success: hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid; a host of informational tools to provide students and families with better information about college quality and costs; prominent attention from the White House, including not one but two presidential summits in 2014 on expanding college opportunity for economically disadvantaged students. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. The author’s note for Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse (University of Chicago Press) identifies O’Connell as author of “the acclaimed science memoir The Elephant’s Secret Sense,” from the same publisher, “and the Smithsonian channel documentary 'Elephant King,’” which I am going to watch just as soon as this column is done. Read more...

By Larry D. Large. Defenders of higher education are on the ramparts. Again. This time, the ivory tower is under assault from a pitchfork-carrying crowd marching under the banner of reducing the cost of baccalaureate degree programs via the use of new technologies, especially online learning. Read more...

By Jason Jones. Most of us read that Sweet Briar College, a small, private women’s liberal arts college in rural Virginia, announced it would close this summer. The closure can be explained through various factors and reasons: ever-growing deferred maintenance, lack of internship options for students, a rural setting, diminishing public interest in liberal education and single-sex education, an endowment made up of mostly restricted funds, and the simultaneous effects of decreasing enrollments resulting in higher rates of tuition discounts and years of dipping into the unrestricted endowment to cover operating costs. Read more...

By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Moving 19 higher education institutions to a new “French Silicon Valley” on the edge of Paris sounds like a daunting task. The creation of the University of Paris-Saclay’s campus will cost €2 billion ($2.17 billion), and a government-funded €2.5 billion ($2.72 billion) extension of the Paris Métro will connect the high-tech hub to the center of the French capital in 35 minutes. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Colleges and universities are expected to pay at least $1.1 billion in 2015 to companies that helped the institutions take their academic programs online. The research firm Eduventures estimated in a recent report that the market for these "online program management" providers, which others call enablers, could more than double by 2020. Read more...

By Ry Rivard. In a sign that college regulators may be struggling to cope with mergers and acquisitions, a regional accrediting agency has gone back and forth on whether two California colleges are able to ably govern themselves despite having board members with potential conflicts of interest. Read more...