Academe Today Monday, December 4, 2017 Sign up for this newsletter | Todayâs News | Government By Adam Harris, Eric Kelderman, and Andy Thomason As lawmakers prepare to hash out the differences in bills passed by both chambers of Congress, here’s what each would mean for higher ed. |
| Higher Education Act By Adam Harris The legislation, to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, would repeal the gainful-employment regulation, codify Title IX guidance, simplify the Fafsa, and eliminate the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. |
| Administration By Scott Carlson Advocates for the job-training positions also face challenges stemming from loose definitions of what they are and negative public perceptions of who they serve. |
| Faculty By Katherine Mangan Campus officials say they are "deeply concerned" about anonymous allegations of sexual assault and harassment by Gopal Balakrishnan. |
| Sexual Misconduct By Nell Gluckman, Brock Read, and Katherine Mangan Revelations about the film producer’s apparent pattern of sexual misconduct are just a couple of months old, but the reverberations have been deeply felt across academe. Here are the latest updates, on cases at Kentucky, Princeton, UC-Santa Cruz, and Virginia. |
| News The Chronicle is devoting more resources to coverage of sexual harassment in higher education, and we’d like to hear from you. Do you have a story to share? Find out how to contact us here. |
| Students By Steve Kolowich James Allsup, former head of the Washington State U. College Republicans, won re-election as president of the campus chapter. But he was found to be ineligible for the office because he will soon graduate. |
Views | The Chronicle Review By Clancy Martin The Stoics are useful when things are going well, but they’re at the top of their game when things fall apart. |
| Advice By Rebecca Schuman In Part 2 of the series “Ice Skating in Hell,” a Ph.D. offers a rundown of where she applied, and why. |
| Lingua Franca William Germano considers child-snatching specters â the imagined ones that kept 19th-century women from the ballot box, the Homme Sept Heures of Quebec, and more. |
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