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Thursday, October 20, 2016


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Labor

Faculty Strike Throws Pennsylvania’s State-Owned Colleges Into ‘Organized Chaos’

By Katherine Knott and Peter Schmidt

Years of close calls during collective bargaining led the 14-campus system to develop contingency plans in the event of a work stoppage. The test now is how well those plans will work.

Students

To Improve Student Success, a University Confronts the Email Deluge premium

By Beckie Supiano

Michigan State University is rethinking how it communicates with students, especially those who are freshmen or the first in their families to go to college. Sending hundreds of emails isn’t the best way — but what is?

Government

Trump Said He Would ‘End’ Political Correctness on Campuses. Could a President Do That?

By Steve Kolowich

Probably not. But there are ways a president could mitigate the federal government’s role in shaping how colleges define and respond to the sort of criticism that Mr. Trump and many conservatives lament.

Teaching

A Higher-Education Rebel With a Cause

By Jeffrey R. Young

Sarah Short, who has taught some 44,000 students over a half-century at Syracuse University, wants to see more classroom interaction.


Views


Commentary

Religiously Serious, Thoughtfully Secular

By Randy Boyagoda

The leader of a Catholic college within a public university says religion will never disappear from human experience, any more than will rejection and critiques of religion.

Lingua Franca

-Gated Out

Did you know there's a real Water Gate? Lucy Ferriss catalogs -gates since that most infamous one, suggesting we retire the suffix.

The Chronicle Review

Rock ’n’ Roll as Racial Dialogue premium

By Kevin J.H. Dettmar

Until the 1950s, it was incontrovertibly black. A new book brings together artists and songs that our implicitly segregationist narratives of the music have encouraged us to keep apart.


Advice


First Person

It's Not Too Late to Save the Stacks

By Ann E. Michael

Why we still need to keep books in our campus libraries.

Vitae

Doing Your Own Assignments First

By David Gooblar

An assignment is not just an instrument to measure learning, but also a way to engender it.

ProfHacker

Solutions for Tracking Projects

Keeping track of continuing projects in an ecosystem with a myriad of digital and physical calendars, to-do lists, and file systems can be a challenge. Anastasia Salter shares her simple approach.  


Job Opportunities


Tepper School of Business Faculty Positions in Finance, Carnegie Mellon University
Pennsylvania, United States

Tenure-Track Engineering Faculty, California State University, Chico
California, United States

Assistant Professor or Instructor of Chemistry, University of South Carolina Lancaster
South Carolina, United States

Assistant Professor, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
California, United States

Associate Professor of Terrestrial Remote Sensing, South Dakota State University
South Dakota, United States

Director of Academic Nursing Development, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
District of Columbia, United States

Assistant Chair of Music Business/Management, Berklee College of Music
Massachusetts, United States

Assistant/Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Associate/Full Professor in Student Affairs in Higher Education, Colorado State University
Colorado, United States

Tools & Resources


The Professor Is In!
Dear Readers: Have a question about the academic job market that you'd like to see answered on Vitae? Send it to The Professor Is In! Karen welcomes any and all questions related to the job market, preparing for the job market while in graduate school, coping with the adjunct struggle, and assistant professorhood. Send questions to gettenure@gmail.com.


Your Guide to the Ins and Outs of Negotiating in Academe
Kudos on having an offer in hand. But that’s just the starting point for negotiations. Our experts tell you how to weigh the terms and broker a better outcome. Download it here.


A New Podcast on the Future of Education
The education landscape is changing. On The Chronicle's Re:Learning podcast, you’ll meet the renegade teachers, ed-tech entrepreneurs, longtime educators, and others shaping the future of college. To keep up with new episodes, subscribe on iTunes — and please review the show there as well.