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Tuesday, January 2, 2018


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Idea Lab

How to Market a College in a Troubled Locale premium

By Lee Gardner

Detroit’s reputation lags behind its rebirth, but the University of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University do appeal to Generation Z.

Special Reports

A World of Ideas in Idea Lab

A collection of nearly 50 explorations of the problems that colleges face, and how they are solving them. The articles include news, analysis, data, advice, and opinion.

Faculty

Drexel Professor Whose Charged Tweets Drew Fire From the Right Will Leave the University

By Andy Thomason

“After death threats and threats of violence directed against me and my family, my situation has become unsustainable,” says George Ciccariello-Maher.

News

Subscribers’ Most-Read Stories of 2017

Leadership dramas. Controversies big and small. Failing colleges. And the game of bingo. Those are just a few of the themes and stories that The Chronicle’s individual subscribers read the most this year.


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The Daily Briefing

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


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Chronicle Focus

These carefully curated collections of articles on key issues in higher education are available to individual subscribers only. To read them, subscribe today!

When Professors Cross Sexual Boundaries

Distress and complications often follow when faculty members focus unwanted sexual attention on their students or junior colleagues. Here’s how college officials deal with such cases and try to resolve complaints.


Views


The Chronicle Review

How Facebook Stymies Social Science

By Henry Farrell

When private companies hold data that scholars need, what becomes of academic research?

Lingua Franca

The Boy From the Isle of Man

What happens to people who can’t decide whether to go into language study or science? If they’re lucky, they find themselves in linguistics, as Geoff Pullum explains.


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Job Opportunities


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