Academe Today Wednesday, September 6, 2017 Sign up for this newsletter | A Setback for Dreamers | Students By Katherine Mangan A program that has given some 800,000 undocumented immigrants a chance to attend college, work, and build lives in the United States will be phased out after a delay to give Congress a chance to come up with a legislative fix, the U.S. attorney general announced on Tuesday. |
| Administration By Liam Adams and Sam Hoisington Colleges were virtually unanimous in their condemnation of the administration’s action. Some also outlined under what circumstances they would share students’ information with authorities. |
| Special Reports Here’s a selection of Chronicle articles with background and context on the history of the deferred-action program and its vulnerable participants. |
Also in Todayâs News | The Chronicle Review By Nathan Pippenger Protests at conferences? Social-media campaigns against speakers? How political scientists are responding to Trump. |
A New Feature for Subscribers | In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are more than 25. Here are a couple of examples: |
| Professors are trying whatever strategies it takes to liven up the classroom and help students master and remember material. This 44-page collection describes some of their innovative teaching ideas — both high-tech and low-tech ones. |
| As the incidence of anxiety disorders and depression among students increases, colleges are struggling to respond. The nine articles in this collection describe what campus officials are doing to cope with mental-health issues on campus. |
Views | The Chronicle Review By Jason N. Blum Colleges aren’t obliged, in the name of free speech, to host every maniac with a Twitter following. |
| Advice By Rachel Toor “Most scientists I know are wonderful storytellers, but they are taught from early in their careers to edit out the story, to redact the personal.” |
| Vitae By Karen Kelsky In the “post-fact” timeline in which we find ourselves, our very function as educators becomes to resist it. |
| Lingua Franca Is it elitist to call out Donald Trumpâs typos and errors? Lucy Ferriss considers. |
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How UMUC used virtual desktops to give students access to popular professional software tools for the entirety of their academic career. |
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