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Tuesday, November 1, 2016


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Research

Open Data Meets a Defining Test premium

By Paul Basken

As large companies assume a bigger role in the research life cycle, Brian Nosek’s Center for Open Science sees a moment to push a vision of data sharing and open research.

Graduate Students

Yale Graduate Students’ ‘Microunit’ Unionization Strategy Could Have Nationwide Implications premium

By Vimal Patel

Administrators at the university oppose a move to organize unions at the department level, and a regional labor-board director will decide whether the effort can proceed.

Special Reports

The ‘Internet of Things’ Faces Practical and Ethical Challenges premium

By Sarah Brown

An experiment at Carnegie Mellon University hints at a new world of networked devices. But we’re not there yet.

On Leadership

Video: How Global Partnerships Could Remake the Research University

By Karin Fischer

Edward Byrne, president of King’s College London, believes that deeper collaboration across borders could shake up the international hierarchy of great institutions.


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The Chronicle Review

Truth After Trump

By Justin E.H. Smith

Sinister forces have shaped the lies and memes of the alt-right.

Lingua Franca

Trumptionary 3: Barnhart's Never-Finished Dictionary of Politics

Allan Metcalf presents the lexicographer David Barnhart's latest sampling of Trump-inspired words.


Advice


Moving Up

The Best Search Committees

By Zachary A. Smith

By nature, they are imperfect and varied, but successful ones share some traits.

Vitae

What They're Saying About You

By Brent Foster

Private Facebook pages created by students for your course are the new cyber watercooler.

Vitae

Why We Can't Finish Things

By Allison M. Vaillancourt

And why we have difficulty even getting started.


Job Opportunities


Provost, Emory & Henry College
Virginia, United States

Professor of Spiritual Formation, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Illinois, United States

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Design & Advanced Manufacturing, Virginia Tech
Virginia, United States

Project Director/Research Scientist, University of Michigan
Michigan, United States

Vacancy Announcements, Oglala Lakota College
South Dakota, United States

Tenure Track Position in Sustainable Development and Cooperation, Underwood International College
Korea, Republic of

Open Rank Professor - Global NCD Research (Log# 18-030), Georgia State University
Georgia, United States

The College of Education Faculty Positions, Northern Arizona University
Arizona, United States

Tools & Resources


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