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In the States

Why Conservative Lawmakers Are Turning to Free-Speech Bills as a Fix for Higher Ed premium

By Beth McMurtrie

Many of the sponsors share a common refrain: that college campuses have become hostage to a limited worldview — specifically, a liberal one.

Government

The Story of James Comey’s Most Explosive Investigation — in College

By Adam Harris

Long before he was director of the FBI, Mr. Comey was a student journalist at the College of William & Mary. His series about race on the Virginia campus ignited a firestorm.

Teaching

Can a Single Course Jeopardize an Academic Department?

By J. Clara Chan

The chairman of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says higher-level administrators raised concerns about a class taught by a prominent faculty critic. The class was then canceled.

Faculty

New Chief of the Modern Language Association Sees Signs of Hope

By Audrey Williams June

Amid falling enrollments and threats to federal funding for the humanities, Paula Krebs wants to seize on opportunities.

Research

NIH Abandons Plan to Limit Per-Person Grant Awards

By Paul Basken

The agency says it is shifting to a new strategy but not from its goal of helping younger scientists compete for NIH support.


Views

Commentary

Don’t Tear Down Accreditation. Build on What’s Right About It.

By Barbara E. Brittingham

Rather than immediately slapping colleges with sanctions, peer reviewers try to nudge them toward improvement.

Vitae

Breaking Into the NGO Bubble

By Andrew Thaler

How to network and land contracts with nongovernmental organizations.

Lingua Franca

A Lexicographical Bildungsroman

Kory Stamper’s new book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, describes a lexicographer’s love for words and the making of the manuals that define them.

Job Opportunities

Vice Chair Research, Emergency Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Pennsylvania, United States

Associate Vice President of Development, Principal Gifts and Presidential Priorities, Miami University
Ohio, United States

Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Florida, United States

Tools & Resources

This June, the Careers Section Is Reinvented
 Watch for some important changes in the coming Careers section of our print edition. The redesigned layout brings exclusive editorial content closer to job ads, providing job seekers more engagement and institutions better visibility for their job openings. View the redesign.


Webinar: Negotiating an Academic Job Offer
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