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Tuesday, February 7, 2017


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Idea Lab: Colleges Solving Problems


Opening Doors for the Ph.D. premium

By Vimal Patel

Colleges are making curricular changes to get doctoral students in the humanities better prepared for careers outside academe.

Helping History Ph.D.s Expand Their Job Options premium

By Vimal Patel

The head of the American Historical Association says departments should integrate communication, collaboration, and three other "basic skills" into their programs.

5 Ways to Broaden the Doctoral Curriculum premium

Examples of how some departments and professors are tweaking the  curriculum.

How Administrators Can Help Prepare Ph.D.s for Nonfaculty Careers

By L. Maren Wood

Graduate programs should foster alumni networks and provide opportunities for students to articulate their skills.


Also in Today's News


Faculty

3 Professors Are Fasting to Protest Their University's 'Silence' on the Travel Ban

By Lindsay McKenzie

A court's recent suspension of the ban, affecting citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries, makes the Clemson University protest all the more important, the professors say.

Teaching

In Courses on Dystopian Literature, Everybody Wants to Talk About Trump

By Lindsay McKenzie

The new president and the era of "alternative facts" have started to creep into English-literature classes across the nation.

Administration

Colleges Get Unusually Large Share of Biggest Donors' Contributions

By Maria Di Mento and Drew Lindsay (Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Nearly half of giving by the country's most generous philanthropists went to higher education, with $1 of every $5 benefiting elite universities with multibillion-dollar endowments.

Administration

Decline in Giving by Individuals Last Year Kept College Fund-Raising Flat

By Rebecca Koenig (Chronicle of Philanthropy)

American universities raised $41 billion, barely more than the previous year. Harvard led the way with nearly $1.2 billion.


Views


Commentary

Robots Will Save Liberal Education

By Eboo Patel

They can’t take the jobs that require "relationship workers," who exhibit the valuable skills that a liberal education provides.

The Chronicle Review

A Bitter Ending premium

By Michael Lewis

Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and the limits of collaboration.

Lingua Franca

How Not to Teach Chinese

If Mandarin is to be taught to non-native speakers, says Geoff Pullum, it should focus on everyday, spoken language and not on rarefied words.


Advice


First Person

Designing a Lab in the Humanities

By Fritz Breithaupt

What our disciplines are missing for students is the fun factor.

Vitae

How to Toe the Line

By Ariel Sophia Bardi

Struggling to adjust after leaving academe? The way forward may lie in simply listening to your own intuition.


Job Opportunities


Faculty Openings, Middle Tennessee State University
Tennessee, United States

McAllister Endowed Chair in Community, Culture and Environment, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Arizona, United States

Chair of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Washington, United States

Assistant/Associate Professor of Information Technology, University of South Carolina
South Carolina, United States

Assistant Professor of Leadership, Department of Agricultural Communication, Education, and Leadership at The Ohio State University
Ohio, United States

Presidential/CEO Search, Big Sandy Community and Technical College
Kentucky, United States

Post-Doctoral Associate: Plant Physiology, University of Minnesota
Minnesota, United States

Head of School, Banking and Finance, University of New South Wales
Australia

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