Academe Today Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Sign up for this newsletter | Todayâs News | Taxing Tuition By Chris Quintana 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 By Eric Hoover 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 By Sarah Brown Colleges must adapt to a new normal of hate groups’ targeting their campuses, university officials say. |
| Government By Adam Harris 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 By Sam Hoisington 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 By Sam Hoisington 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.” |
Have You Experienced Sexual Harassment? | The Chronicle is devoting more resources to coverage of sexual harassment in higher education, and we’d like to hear from you. Do you have a story to share? Find out how to contact us here. |
Views | The Graduate Adviser By Leonard Cassuto What a philosophy professor and his graduate students can teach us about their adventures in elementary school. |
| The Two-Year Track By Rob Jenkins Search committees want to see how you teach, not how you use PowerPoint. |
| Lingua Franca Allan Metcalf describes one important contest that President Trump has never won. |
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UF Bee Research Lab Gets New Facility
Leading bee research program will move into a brand-new building to support its teaching and research efforts. |
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