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Tuesday, October 10, 2017


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Students

The Long Last Miles to College premium

By Eric Hoover

All along they wanted the same thing: to leave home, decorate a dorm-room wall, and shape a new life. Find out how two Texas students weathered an uncertain summer.

Chronicle Series

Students on the Margins

By Eric Hoover and Scott Carlson

For many low-income students, college is a question mark. The guidance that they need is often in desperately short supply. Download this booklet to see their lives unfold, and you’ll see a tangle of circumstances as complex as the students themselves.

Curriculum

What Students Can Learn From Workplace Hierarchies premium

By Scott Carlson

Academe tends to allow students to dress as they please, to question authority, and to speak freely. Some preprofessional institutions, though, provide students a place in the pecking order that may prepare them better for jobs.

Administration

Inside an ‘Unprecedented’ Increase in Campus White-Supremacist Recruiting

By Julia Schmalz

Hate fliers have appeared on hundreds of campuses, largely due to the efforts of groups looking to make recruiting inroads. Here’s what college administrators can do.

Research

Can Social Science Tell Us How Much Gerrymandering Is Too Much?

By Paul Basken

In the spotlight of a Supreme Court case over whether Wisconsin lawmakers drew the state’s districts unconstitutionally, the discipline sees both its power and its limits.


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The Daily Briefing

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz and Andy Thomason

The Daily Briefing tells individual subscribers everything they need to know about higher ed. Here’s a sample.


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Hurricane Diary

At the U. of Puerto Rico After Maria

By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

The University of Puerto Rico’s 11 campuses were especially hard hit by Hurricane Maria. Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, a professor of the humanities at one of them, describes his experience of the storm.

Commentary

Only Drastic Changes Can Fix College Basketball

By Karen Gross

As the latest scandal shows, the NCAA isn’t doing its job. Let’s tear it down and start over.

Lingua Franca

Hell, Yes, I’m Judging You

Because, says Ben Yagoda, that’s what human beings do. We give a fellow member of the species a once-over, and then it’s off to the races.


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