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Tuesday, May 15, 2018


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The Erotic Professor

By Corey Robin

Money and the murky boundary of teaching and sex.

Tracing the Impact of Faculty Harassment

Distress and complications often follow when faculty members focus unwanted sexual attention on their students or junior colleagues. Here’s how college officials deal with such cases and try to resolve complaints.


On the Campus


Special Reports

Does the Faculty Office Have a Future? premium

By Lawrence Biemiller

Administrators say it’s the “third rail” of facilities questions: With faculty members spending less of their time in their campus offices, can colleges afford to keep building them?

Commentary

Help Your Students Succeed by Building Spaces Where They Can Talk With Professors premium

By Jeffrey J. Selingo

The traditional faculty office, tucked away in a different building, doesn’t lend itself to casual conversation after class. But there are spaces that do.

Special Reports

Got a Video-Gaming Team? What About an Arena for It? premium

By Goldie Blumenstyk

More than 70 institutions now offer scholarships for eSports, and they’re developing new facilities for their competitors and fans.

Special Reports

Campus Spaces: Flexibility for the Future

This special report examines how colleges’ buildings, grounds, classrooms, and public areas help them do their jobs better (or, in some cases, hinder them).


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The Daily Briefing

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Commentary

How to Make Old Campus Spaces Feel New Again premium

By Fawn Behrens-Smith

With proper evaluation and planning, new space doesn’t have to mean new square footage.

Lingua Franca

‘Newfangled’: a Word Much Older Than You Think

Making a foray into fangle, William Germano has a startling encounter in the world of online journals publishing.

 

 

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