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Friday, June 23, 2017


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Community Colleges

Colleges Face More Pressure on Student Outcomes, but Success Isn’t Always Easy to Measure premium

By Eric Kelderman

Federal data don’t paint a pretty picture of some two-year colleges. Are they really failing?

Faculty

Professors’ Growing Risk: Harassment for Things They Never Really Said

By Peter Schmidt

College faculty members are facing not just online backlash, but threats of violence, as a result of how conservative media outlets characterize their views.

Quicksand

Signal Boost: How Conservative Media Outlets Turn Faculty Viewpoints Into National News

By Chris Quintana and Brock Read

Three professors made provocative statements about race and politics. Then the outrage machine went to work.

Presidents

HBCUs Have a Leadership Problem. This Group Thinks It Has an Answer. premium

By Adam Harris

A search firm aimed at strengthening the leadership pipeline for black colleges saw limited success in its first year, but has higher hopes for the future.

The Ticker

Elsevier Wins $15 Million in Copyright Suit Against Piracy Sites

The science-publishing giant had sued Sci-Hub and other websites that provide free, pirated access to copyright-protected articles. Whether anything will change is uncertain.


The Future of Enrollment


Where Colleges Will Find Their Next Students

What does the future hold for enrollment and admissions? Gain insights into the latest demographics, student migration patterns, and the changing admissions field to prepare your institution for the decade ahead.


Views


Lingua Franca

Worst Sentence Ever Seen in Academic Prose

Geoff Pullum attempts to parse an impossibly clumsy sentence written by a 19th-century philologist. Don't tell him people knew how to write back then.

ProfHacker

On Writing: Paul J. Silvia

ProfHacker’s Natalie M. Houston discusses Paul J. Silvia’s advice about making progress with your writing.


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