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Sexual Assault

Coaches Must Now ‘Step the Heck Out’ of Sex-Assault Investigations of Players premium

By Robin Wilson

A recent expulsion highlights questions about how colleges handle such allegations and whether the process is impartial.

Publishing

Are Preprints Becoming the New Norm in Biology? Not So Fast premium

By Courtney Kueppers

Superstar biologists have grabbed headlines by putting their work directly online. For the rank and file, though, the system still runs on peer review.

Research Ethics

A Year After a Climate-Change Controversy, Smithsonian and Journals Still Seek Balance on Disclosure Rules premium

By Paul Basken

Wei-Hock (Willie) Soon traded on connections to Harvard and the Smithsonian while failing to disclose that energy companies had supported his research on global warming. The institutions say there’s only so much they can do to keep it from happening again.

On Leadership

Video: How One University Took Its Student Protesters Seriously

By Sarah Brown

Ajay Nair, senior vice president and dean of campus life at Emory University, describes his institution’s unusually detailed response to activism over the campus racial climate this fall.  


Views

Commentary

The Odd Couple: How Ed Tech Must Support Vastly Different Types of Professors premium

By Phil Hill

Understanding the needs, interests, and technical proficiency of faculty members before jumping into features and solutions is an important way to improve the process.

The Chronicle Review

Unsolved Mysteries

By Jeffrey Meyers

Even the most dedicated biographical detective work is sometimes in vain.

Lingua Franca

Sentences I Hope Never to Use

Some grammatical and meaningful sentences, quite commonly heard in real life, are nonetheless ones that Geoff Pullum hopes never to utter as long as he lives. Read a short sampling.

Advice

Vitae

The Career Change: Tired of Short-Term Jobs

By Fatimah Williams Castro

A Ph.D. wonders how to turn her background into a real career outside of academe.

ProfHacker

Experimenting With Specifications Grading

How does specifications grading work in an introductory media class? And what *is* the difference between "meets" and "exceeds" expectations, anyway?

Job Opportunities

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New Jersey, United States

Dean, School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
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Tenure Track Positions, University of North Texas
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