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Wednesday, September 20, 2017


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Diversity in Academe: The Age Issue


How Generations X, Y, and Z May Change the Academic Workplace premium

By Sarah Brown

Here are four ways in which these generations differ from one another, and how administrators, faculty members, and students might bridge those gaps.

The Free-Speech Divide Is a Generation Gap premium

By Beth McMurtrie

Why students and professors may think differently about free expression.

The Age Issue

Welcome to The Chronicle’s first special report devoted to age diversity on campuses. This annual issue also features compelling personal essays dealing with identity and disability — be sure to check them out.

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There has never been a greater focus on diversity in higher education, and these special reports provide the data, context, and analysis that decision makers need as they address concerns raised by faculty, staff, students, and the public.


Today’s News


Faculty

How a College Aims to Breed Activists With Keen Eyes on Identity Politics premium

By Nell Gluckman

A new program at the City College of New York will teach activism with a nuanced approach to politics.

Students

At Georgia Tech, Tensions Over How to Mark a Student’s Killing by the Police

By Sam Hoisington

Scout Schultz, an LGBT student leader, was shot and killed by a campus police officer on Sunday. In video of the incident, he is heard saying, “Shoot me.”

The Ticker

Purdue’s Purchase of Kaplan Gets Go-Ahead From Education Dept.

The second of three regulatory hurdles is closer to being cleared, say the department and the university.

The Ticker

After Faculty Outcry, UNC Will Allow Athletics Course to Be Taught Again

The class, which covers the infamous Chapel Hill academic-fraud scandal, will be offered in the spring. A planned offering was canceled under ambiguous circumstances in the fall of 2016.


What Works In and Around the Classroom


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Advice

Why We Hate Our Own Meetings

By Kevin Gannon

A good portion of what ails academic meetings stems from factors within our control.

Advice

The Professor Is In: How to Ask ‘Smart’ Questions

By Karen Kelsky

What you say and how you say it in departmental seminars is one way your colleagues will size you up.

Commentary

How to Rescue 17 Million Undergraduates a Year From Ageism premium

By Margaret Morganroth Gullette

An all-too-unrecognizable bias plagues them. But it can be acknowledged, and mitigated.

Lingua Franca

A Child’s Garden of ‘Verses’

Do your kids say, “Our team will be versing the Bombers next week”? Ben Yagoda explores that and other coinages that may be older than you think.


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