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Administration

Colorado Case Puts Focus on Colleges’ Handling of Alleged Domestic Violence

Questions reverberate for other universities after the chancellor, athletics director, and head football coach at Boulder were punished for failing to take their reporting responsibilities far enough.

Students

‘It Didn’t Smell Right’: The Making of a Debt-Relief Whistle-Blower

Bob Greenberg fielded calls at a company in Florida that promised to eliminate customers’ student loans. What he heard eventually drove him to the state attorney general’s office.

Faculty

Star Scholar Says New Anti-Racism Center Will ‘Ask Different Questions’

The University of Florida’s Ibram X. Kendi will move in August to American University, where he hopes his research will have a bigger influence on policy debates.

On Leadership

U. of Louisville’s Interim President: ‘Trying to Focus on the Positive’

Greg Postel has been at his institution for 23 years. Although he is interim executive vice president for health affairs, he also stepped into the top role when the president resigned last summer. He talks about how he has tried to help the university move past its controversies.

Chronicle Focus

In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are more than 25. Here are a couple of examples:

24 Tips for Teaching Writing

Contributors to the Lingua Franca blog offer guidance on how to teach students about danglers, adverbs, commas, and more.

Creating a Diverse Faculty

College officials struggle to attract and retain faculty members from traditionally underrepresented groups. The 10 articles in this guide examine why they have such a hard time with it and what they might do better.

Commentary

Free Speech Loses Ground as Harvard Retracts Offers to Admitted Students

The decision fuels an already tense atmosphere of censorship at colleges across the country.

Lingua Franca

A Story of Grammar

David Crystal, in his new book, says that the point of understanding the way language works is to achieve clearer, more cogent communication. Lucy Ferriss explores what that means for writers of literature.

Vitae

The Professor Is In: Juggling Review Requests

You are eager to be a peer reviewer for journals. Just don’t be too eager.