Academe Today

Taxing Tuition

Graduate Students Mobilize ‘to Stop Something That Can Ruin Us’

The students plan to protest the Republican tax proposal, which, as passed by the House of Representatives, would tax their tuition waivers. Higher-education leaders have said such a measure, if enacted, could be catastrophic.

Admissions

Why People Really Love/Hate Alumni Interviews

A recent fiasco involving a Harvard interviewer prompted a wave of contradictory responses. College officials and alumni found the practice meaningful, or a charade; important, or a major risk; something to continue, or to end at once.

Students

The Reason the U. of Maryland Is Hiring a ‘Hate-Bias Response Coordinator’

Colleges must adapt to a new normal of hate groups’ targeting their campuses, university officials say.

Government

Is It Finally Time to Simplify the Fafsa? Signs Point to Yes.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced on Tuesday that the department would roll out a new mobile app to make it easier for students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

Governance

After Lawsuit Threat and Canceled Speech, Scaramucci Resigns From Tufts Advisory Board

Anthony Scaramucci, who was briefly the White House communications director, threatened to sue a student newspaper writer on Monday. On Tuesday morning he resigned from an advisory board at Tufts University.

People

Fresh Off Failed ‘Washington Post’ Sting, James O'Keefe Will Speak at SMU

Project Veritas recently used an undercover employee to try to expose bias at The Washington Post, which sniffed out the effort. The organization’s founder will speak on “stopping bias in American media.”

Here’s How to Tell Us About It

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The Graduate Adviser

It’s Never Too Early to Learn to Think

What a philosophy professor and his graduate students can teach us about their adventures in elementary school.

The Two-Year Track

The Teaching Demo: Less Power, More Point

Search committees want to see how you teach, not how you use PowerPoint.

Lingua Franca

Person of the Year, Word of the Year, and Potus

Allan Metcalf describes one important contest that President Trump has never won.