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Friday, December 22, 2017


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Teaching

How Spaces Designed for Learning Can Change Teaching

Sometimes, where students sit and where faculty members stand can have a meaningful impact.

Faculty

A Brief History of Students Secretly Recording Their Professors

By Steve Kolowich and Chris Quintana

Recent efforts by a right-wing activist to recruit conservative students to spy on their liberal professors are just the newest iteration of what has become a notorious campus pastime.

Students

At a Time of Change, These Baptist Colleges Are Staying the Course premium

By Liam Adams

Georgia’s Brewton-Parker College, Shorter University, and Truett McConnell University have doubled down on their religious identity. But two of them have seen sharp declines in enrollment.


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Views


The Chronicle Review

A Short, Dire Stint as the President’s Wife premium

By Maria Frawley

Alcoholism cost my husband his job. Jane Austen helped me keep perspective.

First Person

Yes, We Should Teach Character

By David Gooblar

But we shouldn’t look to the “grit” phenomenon as the best way to do that.

Lingua Franca

‘Click Here to Unsubscribe’

You can update your preferences, writes Bill Germano, but you’ll need to think hard about what they are.


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Job Opportunities


Program Director, Master of Science in Health Care Management (MSHM), Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
New Jersey, United Kingdom

Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi
Mississippi, United States

Director, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona
Arizona, United States

Jordan-Trexler Chair in Religion, Roanoke College
Virginia, United States

Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Chicago
Illinois, United States

President, California State University, Bakersfield
California, United States

Vice Chancellor of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Missouri, United States

Residential Faculty Positions at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona, Mesa Community College
Arizona, United States

Position of the Vice Chancellor, University of Swaziland
Swaziland

Open Faculty Positions, Briar Cliff University
Iowa, United States

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