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Thursday, November 3, 2016


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Administration

Feuding Over Sex-Assault Scandal Intensifies Spotlight on Baylor premium

By Katherine Mangan

This week, the university unveiled a website that it has used to challenge critics. Its actions have riled some alumni and upset campus activists.

Faculty

Can Colleges Train Professors to Steer Clear of Microaggressions?

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz

After a student’s blog post on a perceived microaggression went viral, her university announced new training for faculty. Here is what such trainings might accomplish.

Leadership

After Troubled Times, Missouri System Picks an Academic as Its Leader premium

By Eric Kelderman

Mun Y. Choi, now the University of Connecticut’s provost, says his first task in his new role will be to listen. He’ll also have to balance sometimes competing demands from lawmakers, students, and others.


Views


Commentary

Micro-Barriers Loom Large for First-Generation Students

By Eric Johnson

In his book Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance demonstrates how relatively tiny differences in culture can make an enormous difference in access.

The Chronicle Review

Teaching Trump premium

By Christina M. Greer

Navigating class discussions during a chaotic election season.

Lingua Franca

Girl Talk

Lucy Ferriss, analyzing researchers’ conclusions about masculine and feminine speech, finds two surprising results: Donald Trump talks like a female, and doing so may have helped him.


Advice


First Person

Do You Make Them Call You ‘Professor’?

By Carrie J. Preston

Why I began to rethink my views on classroom decorum.

Vitae

’Tis the Season of Dead Grandmothers

By David Gooblar

It’s possible to care about your students and make allowances for them without fear that they’ll walk all over you.


Job Opportunities


Visiting Assistant Professor of European History, St. Lawrence University
New York, United States

Assistant Professor of Physics, United States Air Force Academy
Colorado, United States

Assistant Professor in Regional Climate Science, Washington State University, Vancouver
Washington, United States

Program Advisor, University of Nevada, Reno School of Social Work
Nevada, United States

Associate Dean for Research Associate/Full Professor of School of Nursing, Auburn University School of Nursing
Alabama, United States

Tenure Track, Open Rank Faculty Positions in Exercise Physiology, Neuroscience, and Biomechanics, University of Michigan
Michigan, United States

Multiple Faculty Positions, Drury University
Missouri, United States

Assistant Professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering (Human Factors), University of Washington
Washington, United States

Tools & Resources


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