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Wednesday, December 13, 2017


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Admissions & Student Aid

How the Federal-Aid Process Traps Poor Students premium

By Eric Hoover

Verification, an overlooked part of the federal-aid process, isn’t meant to hinder low-income students, but that’s often what it does.

Admissions & Student Aid

Get the Series: Students on the Margins

By Eric Hoover and Scott Carlson

For many low-income students, college is a question mark. The guidance that they need is often in desperately short supply. Download this booklet to see their lives unfold, and you’ll see a tangle of circumstances as complex as the students themselves.

Sexual Harassment

‘A Complete Culture of Sexualization’: 1,600 Stories of Harassment in Higher Ed

By Nell Gluckman

When Karen Kelsky, an academic career adviser, created an online survey so scholars could describe their experiences with sexual misconduct, the responses poured in.

Government

House Republicans Press for Higher-Ed Overhaul in 2018

By Adam Harris and Eric Kelderman

In a session of the House education committee that seemed likely to stretch into Wednesday morning, members debated a plan that could mean sweeping change for academe.

Faculty

Summer Camps Bring STEM to a Wider Audience premium

By Ben Gose

High-school students from low-income and minority backgrounds gain valuable skills, and colleges get an edge in recruiting.

The Chronicle Interview

What Separates Man From Beast? Creativity premium

By Tom Bartlett

And what is creativity? A neuroscientist and a composer explored that question together.


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Mental-Health Issues in Students

As anxiety and depression increase among students, colleges are struggling to respond. Here’s what they’re doing to cope with mental-health issues.

What You Need to Know About Learning Analytics

Online learning has made it possible to track each student’s path toward mastering course content. Here’s how data can be tapped to improve teaching.


Views


The Chronicle Review

How Colleges Silence Eccentrics premium

By Geoffrey Miller

Speech codes impose impossible behavioral standards on people with personality quirks or mental “disorders.”

On Course

Playing With Technology

By James M. Lang

Why I gave peer instruction and polling a try, and how they’ve changed my teaching.

Lingua Franca

Splendor in the Tall Grass

Ben Yagoda finds an example of the Britishism “kicked into the long grass” that predates the OED’s oldest citation, and makes language history.


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Job Opportunities


Dean, Francis J. Noonan School of Business, Loras College
Iowa, United States

Assistant Professor: Art History and Cultures of Display, University of Regina
Canada

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC RESOURCES, San Francisco State University
California, United States

Director of the Public Policy Research Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Missouri, United States

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL AID, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
Virginia, United States

PRESIDENT, University of Louisville
Kentucky, United States

ENGLISH INSTRUCTORS, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
Virginia, United States

DEAN, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, Tulane University
Louisiana, United States

Dean - Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University
Michigan, United States

Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Jersey, United States

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