| BACKGROUNDER What College Activists Want By Katherine Mangan and Marc Parry Defunded police. Inclusive coursework. Faculty who look like them. Students are demanding radical change for racial justice, and they’re not backing down. |
| TEACHING Engaging Students in an Online Classroom A professor’s experiment convinced him that asking students to make their own content worked better than “making cool stuff” for them, writes Beth McMurtrie. |
| WATCH FOR NEW UPDATES Here’s Our New List of Colleges’ Reopening Plans By Chronicle Staff The Chronicle is teaming up with Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative, which has collected reopening plans for nearly 3,000 institutions, to present a fuller view of the fall. |
| EVENTS How to Build Teams That Support Students Join us today at 2 p.m., Eastern time, to discuss collaborating across departments to understand students’ needs and get ready to meet them, whether on campus, remote, or both. |
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- Successfully address concerns from politicians and the local community about your institution’s reopening plans. Register here for next Wednesday’s forum on how colleges can manage external pressures this fall.
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| Paid for and Created by University of Queensland The Triple P Parenting Program has become the most widely used and extensively studied parenting-intervention program in the world. Find out how parents are using the program in today’s climate. |
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| job announcement Director of Human Resources position available at Peralta Community College District Visit jobs.chronicle.com for more details. |
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The Chronicle's Latest Featured Report: Preparing For Tough Conversations The coronavirus pandemic has been the catalyst for exceptionally tough conversations between campus leaders and their faculty, staff, and students. This Chronicle brief offers strategies and advice for approaching sensitive topics and leading difficult dialogues. |
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