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Job Training

In Coal Country, Community Colleges Try to Revive a Struggling Economy premium

By Beth McMurtrie

In a region beset by job losses, poverty, and poor infrastructure, what can colleges realistically do?

Students

The Future of Work: How Colleges Can Prepare Students for the Jobs Ahead

In the eyes of many students and their parents, higher education is tied to a job. And yet the world of work is poised to undergo a number of sharp changes over the next 10 years. This report explores the future job market, reinventing colleges’ career services, and higher education’s role in the work force.

Campus Speech

Milo Yiannopoulos’s ‘Dangerous’ Tour Led to Violent Protests. The Troll Is Back With a Book.

By Tom Bartlett

Search Dangerous for original policy prescriptions or novel cultural insights, and you’ll come up empty. But college students and professors come in for plenty of tweaking.

Technology

Should Colleges or Employers Give People Job-Relevant Skills?

By Scott Carlson

Peter Capelli, a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania, describes how employers have given up on an essential part of the American-labor system: a role in training the next generation of workers.


Views

Commentary

Crashing the Academic Conversation

By Isaac A. Kamola

Social-media outrage about liberal professors is based on a willful misunderstanding of how intellectual work is done.

The Chronicle Review

The Myth of ‘Cultural Appropriation’ premium

By Walter Benn Michaels

Arguing that certain people don’t have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.

Lingua Franca

Nina in Siberia

Reading Elif Batuman’s new novel about a Harvard freshman, Amitava Kumar considers the charm and mystery of foreign-language lessons.

Advice

FoodNotes: Eating Like an Immigrant

By Rachel Herrmann

Food remains a marker of my identity as an American scholar working overseas.

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Job Opportunities

Social Science Division Head for Engagement and Outreach, Arizona State University Libraries
Arizona, United States

The Shulman Chair of Digital Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology
New Jersey, United States

STEM Division Head for Engagement and Outreach, Arizona State University Libraries
Arizona, United States

Tools & Resources

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