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Enrollment

Honors Colleges Promise Prestige, but They Don’t All Deliver premium

By Lee Gardner

With no standard definition of what makes an honors college, efforts range from thriving scholarly communities to underfunded programs with few real offerings.

Guns on Campus

The Places on Campus Where Concealed-Carry Is Most Controversial premium

By Katherine Mangan

Day-care centers, disciplinary hearings, and faculty offices are among the settings where Texas and Georgia have wrestled over whether to allow guns.

Re:Learning

More Colleges Turn to ‘Stackable’ Degrees as Entries to Graduate Programs premium

By Corinne Ruff

MOOC sequences that lead to certificates can also be the ticket into some master’s programs. Educators say that’s one way of easing barriers and cutting costs for students.

The Ticker

Tell Us Your Academic-Bureaucracy Horror Story

Are you a professor or college official who has a horror story about dealing with forms, statements, proposals, reports, or rubrics? We want to hear it.


Views

The Chronicle Review

The Critic’s Soul premium

By Joseph Luzzi

Today’s literary scholars can learn from the generalist Erich Auerbach.

Lingua Franca

Being a Subjunctive

Some grammar purists seem to think the English subjunctive is a fragile creature in danger of extinction. As usual they can't tell their adjective from their elbow, says Geoff Pullum.

Commentary

New U.S. Visa Policy Puts Security Too Far Above Scientific Progress

By Alice P. Gast

The visa difficulties of a British expert in tropical parasitology show that American policy makers must find a way for scientists to travel to the United States as freely as they do elsewhere.

Advice

ProfHacker

When Should You Reply to Email?

ProfHacker's Natalie M. Houston offers tips for managing the endless flow of email.

Vitae

Vitae Bookshelf: James M. Lang

My top five books on teaching and learning in academe.

Job Opportunities

Vice Chancellor of Academics, Arkansas State University - Beebe
Arkansas, United States

Assistant Vice Provost, University of Washington
Washington, United States

Senior Associate Dean and Chair, Department of Medical Education, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Tennessee, United States

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