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Tuesday, January 16, 2018


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Life and Death and College


Government

In a Region With Few College Degrees, People Pin Their Hopes on Trump

By Sarah Brown

Job losses in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors are piling up in the Missouri Bootheel.

Special Reports

A Dying Town

By Sarah Brown and Karin Fischer

Here in a corner of Missouri and across America, the lack of a college education has become a public-health crisis.

Politics

In Trump Country, College Is a Leaky Lifeboat premium

By Beth McMurtrie

As an Indiana county tries to stay afloat in a 21st-century economy, local colleges prove to be an integral part of the future.


Also in Today’s News


Faculty

U. of Rochester Report on Professor’s Alleged Harassment Gets Mixed Reviews premium

By Katherine Mangan

How can an investigation find inappropriate, unprofessional, and offensive behavior, and “gross lapses of judgment,” yet still conclude there were no violations of university policy?

Technology

2 New Threats Highlight Human-Factor Gaps in Cybersecurity Research premium

By Paul Basken

To address vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre, computer scientists must consider the work of social scientists. But, argues one expert, they tend to give it short shrift.

On Leadership

How One University Is Trying to ‘Create a Space for Listening’

By Sarah Brown

Widener University’s president talks about its “common ground” initiative to encourage productive conversations among people with opposing viewpoints.


Views


Advice

The Academic Apostate’s Guide to Interviewing

By Rebecca Schuman

In Part 3 of “Ice Skating in Hell,” a Ph.D. tries something unheard-of on the faculty job market: being her actual self.

The Chronicle Review

Political Correctness Has Run Amok — on the Right

By Aaron R. Hanlon

This is the campus free-speech problem nobody talks about.

Lingua Franca

When Is a New Word New?

It’s harder than ever nowadays to decide whether a coinage is really new, with internet resources so abundant, writes Allan Metcalf.


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Job Opportunities


Multiple Faculty Positions , University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Pennsylvania, United States

Associate Professor, Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island, United States

Assistant/Associate Professor in Design, Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island, United States

Assistant/Associate Professor of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design, Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island, United States

Assistant/Associate Professor of Apparel Design, Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island, United States

Director of Research (Early Language and Literacy), Georgia College & State University, Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy
Georgia, United States

Three Openings for Psychologists , Georgia Tech
Georgia, United States

President, Mt. Hood Community College
Oregon, United States

Registrar, California State - Polytechnic University Pomona
California, United States

Assistant/Associate Professor, Jewelry + Metalsmithing, Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island, United States

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