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Wednesday, March 8, 2017


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Teaching

Building Remedial Ed’s Support Structure premium

By Katherine Mangan

It’s the help students get outside the classroom that often gets them through a course.

Community Colleges

How CUNY Community Colleges Make Intensive Student Support Work premium

By Katherine Mangan

Their ASAP program is considered one of the nation’s most successful examples of intensive support, much of it nonacademic, for underprepared students.


Also in Today's News


The States

Republican State Lawmakers Seek to Ban ‘Sanctuary’ Campuses premium

By Peter Schmidt

At least seven states’ legislatures have taken up measures intended to force colleges to cooperate with immigration authorities. Critics say the bills tackle a nonexistent problem.

Research

An Immigrant Scholar Leads the Charge Against Computing’s Biggest Roadblock premium

By Paul Basken

Kwabena Boahen’s work is playing a huge role in bringing neuromorphic computing toward reality. In doing so, colleagues say, he’s demonstrated the importance of welcoming researchers from abroad.

The Ticker

Here’s a Roundup of the Latest Campus-Climate Incidents Early in the Trump Presidency

Anti-Semitic vandalism and white-nationalist propaganda are on the rise at colleges nationally, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The Ticker

Despite Reports to the Contrary, Morehouse College Says Its President Has Not Been Ousted

A spokeswoman refuted reports that John Silvanus Wilson Jr. had been removed from his position early, possibly because of his criticism of President Trump's order on HBCUs.


Views


The Chronicle Review

On Failing Students premium

By William Major

It’s not their failure that galls. It’s that they don’t even try.

Commentary

What Colleges Should Know About Students’ Borrowing Patterns premium

By Sandy Baum

There is consensus on the need for changes, if not on the details of the best loan-repayment policies.

Lingua Franca

Just Try That With Your Bootstraps

Anne Curzan considers how knowing the origins of an idiom can highlight a flaw in a common notion of success.


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Preserving Centuries of Culture at the National Archives of Afghanistan
Kent State University works with researchers in Afghanistan to digitally archive manuscripts that are threatened by radical groups.


Advice


Vitae

Bridging Academia

By Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Turns out an ex-faculty member can serve as a bridge between the academy and the nonacademic world.

ProfHacker

Why the Open Keynote Is Still Open

Maha Bali shares her process of working on an upcoming keynote (her first) and why it's still "open."


Job Opportunities


Visiting Faculty Chair, Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University
China

Director, School of Nursing, Northern Arizona University
Arizona, United States

President, New England Conservatory
Massachusetts, United States

Associate Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Institutional Research, Keene State College
New Hampshire, United States

Senior Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies, Vanderbilt University
Tennessee, United States

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