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Student Life

Princeton Strives to Help First-Generation Students Feel More at Home premium

By Beckie Supiano

Two administrators are spearheading an effort to make the university more welcoming to students from diverse backgrounds. But, as one of the leaders puts it, they’re "up against a lot in terms of history."

Campus Protests

Student Activists Bring Demands to the Table. Not Everyone Leaves Satisfied. premium

By Arielle Martinez

Claremont McKenna College was among the campuses caught up in a wave of protests over racial-climate issues last year. What followed there illustrates the difficulties many colleges face in turning demands into reality.

Publishing

The U. of California’s Open-Access Promise Hits a Snag: The Faculty premium

By Paul Basken

Three years after the university system’s Academic Senate approved a bold plan to make faculty research freely available, only 25 percent of professors are putting their papers in a state-created repository.

Student Loans

Sending Students a Letter About Their Debt Might Not Be Enough to Change Their Borrowing premium

By Beckie Supiano

One university system got a lot of attention for telling students about their loans and then seeing a drop in borrowing. But new evidence from another university suggests that such letters, by themselves, may not alter students’ loan decisions.


Views

The Chronicle Review

I Read It at the Movies

By Gerald Howard

A new film offers a peek into the bruising relationship between editors and authors.

Lingua Franca

Verb-Forming for Fun and Profit

Two-part back-formed verbs are also known to linguists as 2pbf Vs. The back-formation "gay marry" is what set Ben Yagoda to thinking about how creative these verb forms can be.

Advice

First Person

Erasing the Pop-Culture Scholar, One Click at a Time

By Amanda Ann Klein and Kristen Warner

The scholars would be happy to offer the history and context — if only you’d ask.

Vitae

Your Emotional Well-Being on the Market

By Boyda Johnstone

How to take care of your psychological needs as you search for a faculty job.

Job Opportunities

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Colorado, United States

Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Studies, Pre-licensure Students, Lewis University
Illinois, United States

Executive Director of Assessment/Instruction, Paul Smith's College
New York, United States

Chancellor, Southern Arkansas University Tech
Arkansas, United States

UCLA COMPOSITION PROFESSOR, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
California, United States

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