Academe Today

Administration

How Serious Are You About Diversity Hiring?

Putting principles into practice takes leadership, resources, and commitment. These colleges are using multistage anti-bias procedures to shake up the status quo.

Commentary

Hiring a Diversity Officer Is Only the First Step. Here Are the Next 7.

Institutional support at all levels is key to transforming the climate of everyday campus life.

Special Reports

Diversity in Academe: Who Sets a College’s Diversity Agenda?

True diversity remains a struggle for many colleges. This special report looks at who actually sets a college’s diversity agenda, and what makes that agenda flourish or flop.

Legal

Campus Lawyers’ Deepest Fear: the Protest or Tweet That Spins Into a Free-Speech Crisis

General counsels adapt to a new normal of unrest and scrutiny.

In the Hot Seat

Are Presidents Overpaid? And 4 Other Questions for Oberlin’s Chief

In our new series, “In the Hot Seat,” college and university administrators are asked a series of surprise questions. Our first guest is Carmen T. Ambar, president of Oberlin College.

Technology

The Single Best Way to Help Older Students? ‘Colleges Shouldn’t Make Adults Do Scavenger Hunts’

Speaking from his own experience, Mike Krause, executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, says colleges should help veterans, for example, “just enough.” They appreciate peer mentorship, but “veterans don’t need coddling.”

The Daily Briefing

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

Commentary

Why We Should Spare the Education Department — for Now

A merger with the Labor Department would only exacerbate the worst aspects of the deeply flawed agency under Betsy DeVos.

Lingua Franca

That Adverb in the Fashion Statement

Whoever is responsible for the scrawl on Melania Trump’s jacket might not have thought the message through, Lucy Ferriss writes.