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Technology

As Big Data Comes to College, Officials Wrestle to Set New Ethical Norms premium

By Goldie Blumenstyk

Institutions collect startling amounts of information on students. Do the students have a right to know how it's being used, and should they be able to opt out?

Faculty

AAUP Rethinks How It Fights Governing Boards premium

By Peter Schmidt

The American Association of University Professors plans to review its policies dealing with colleges’ governing boards in response to fears of ineffectiveness and controversy surrounding its sanction of the University of Iowa.

Research Careers

Data Mining Points Path to Helping Female and Minority Scientists

By Paul Basken

Research from Harvard suggests that measuring "reach" — how closely one journal author is connected to others — could be a key factor in career advancement.

Diversity

Why an Ex-Mayor Sees Minority Students as Assets for Globally Competitive Businesses premium

By Scott Carlson

A former mayor of Minneapolis says "different schools" will help close the achievement gap between white and minority students.


Views

The Chronicle Review

The Flaw at the Heart of Psychological Research premium

By Christopher D. Green

The nature of the discipline makes statistics create headaches.

Vitae

On Academic Envy

By Theresa MacPhail

It’s aggravating to experience professional jealousy. It’s even more irritating to realize it’s hampering your own work.

Lingua Franca

Linguification: That's the Name of the Game

It's a rhetorical device both defiant of logic and deeply silly, and its blithe acceptance annoys Geoffrey Pullum no end.

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