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Friday, October 12, 2018


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Sexual Harassment

For U. of Virginia’s Miller Center, a Reckoning in the #MeToo Era premium

By Jack Stripling

Complaints about sexual harassment inside the esteemed public-policy institute have provoked a difficult reflection about how big donors and scholars alike let its culture go so wrong.

Teaching

One Way to Help Students Become Knowledge Creators

Having students assemble a “resource book” for her course, one instructor hopes, will show them how a research literature develops over time.  

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Students

How 3 Colleges Changed Their Sexual-Assault Practices in Response to a National Survey

By Andy Tsubasa Field

The survey, sponsored by the Association of American Universities, prompted more hiring for Title IX offices and other shifts to improve how campuses respond to reports of sexual misconduct.

Leadership

Chancellor Dies at Southern Illinois U.

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz

Carlo D. Montemagno had led the university’s Carbondale campus since August 2017.


A New Report for Chronicle Readers


Idea Lab: Student Wellness

Colleges want students to make healthy choices and avoid risky behaviors. But the potential pitfalls for undergraduates are great: alcohol abuse, excessive partying, and a Greek culture that sometimes promotes dangerous behavior. This collection of articles outlines how leading institutions are making headway. Buy this Idea Lab collection today to help your students be healthier and safer.


Views


The Chronicle Review

We Are All Research Subjects Now

By Sarah E. Igo

And Cold War-era safeguards won’t protect us.

Advice

Don’t Let Prestige Bias Keep You From Applying to Community Colleges

By Rob Jenkins

One of the most common mistakes that new Ph.D.s make on the job market is ignoring the two-year sector.

Lingua Franca

Pure Gold Buried Long Ago in the Book-Review Columns

Geoff Pullum recalls a prescient observation about the relations between language and psychology, lost seven decades ago in a place so obscure you would never have found it.


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Mitigating Mental-Health Crises on Campus
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Job Opportunities


Associate Professor / Professor of Educational Leadership, The University of Mississippi
Mississippi, United States

Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, Brown University
Rhode Island, United States

President, St. John's Northwestern Leadership Academies
Wisconsin, United States

Assistant Professor, Ecology, University of Redlands
California, United States

Teresa M. Fischer Endowed Professor for Citizenship Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Missouri, United States

Digital Preservation & Curation Officer, Arizona State University Libraries
Arizona, United States

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Florida Southern College
Florida, United States

Human Nutrition Faculty Positions, University of Alabama
Alabama, United States

Two Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in Digital Forensics and Information Assurance and Security, Sam Houston State University
Texas, United States

Vice President for Finance and Administration, SUNY Geneseo
New York, United States

Open-Rank Faculty Positions, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Missouri, United States

Assistant Professors in Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma, United States

Vice President of Business and Chief Operating Officer, Claremont McKenna College
California, United States

Computer Science, Big Data/Health Disparities, Assistant/Associate/Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Nevada, United States

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