Academe Today

Inside UVa’s Response to a Chaotic White-Power Rally

More than 3,000 pages of documents show how administrators slowly came to grips with a menacing mob, which might not have turned violent if warnings had been heeded.

‘Et Tu, Teresa?’: How Pressure Built for U. of Virginia to Condemn Racists

After white nationalists’ rally, emails show that administrators, donors, and parents saw Teresa Sullivan’s rhetoric as too equivocal.

Students

When Alumni Interviewers Screw Up, Things Get Weird

A Harvard alum’s privacy-breaching email to applicants underscores the potential hazards of bringing outsiders into the process.

Job Training

A Challenge for Higher Ed: Modernize Manufacturing, but Protect Jobs

A reclamation project in Pittsburgh will turn an old steel mill into an advanced-robotics center run by Carnegie Mellon. Can it really spark a “rebirth of American manufacturing”?

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.

The Chronicle Interview

How One College Decided to Invest More Responsibly

Pitzer built a fossil-fuels-free index fund and “analyzed it seven ways till Sunday,” says the chair of the investment committee. He thinks it may interest other colleges.

Harassment

Northern Arizona U. Professor Is Arrested on Charges of Stalking a Student and Others

The associate professor of interior design is no longer employed at the university, a spokeswoman told a local newspaper.

Faculty

Sexual Harassment and Assault in Higher Ed: What’s Happened Since Weinstein

Revelations about the film producer’s apparent pattern of sexual misconduct are just over a month old, but the reverberations have been deeply felt across academe. Here are the latest updates, from Monday, on cases at Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

The Daily Briefing

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

Commentary

It’s Time for Me to Go

After 18 years in office, a university president says goodbye to “Kafkaesque administrivia” — and a campus she loves.

Advice

Yes, You Have Implicit Biases, Too

Teaching techniques like “the progressive stack” are a way for faculty members to circumvent our own buried prejudices.

Lingua Franca

Making a Case and Point

Lucy Ferriss says that instead of publishing supposedly corrective lists of “errors,” we’d do better to understand what constitutes an expression and why it changes.