Academe Today

Leadership

Seeking Closure in Verdict, Penn State Finds More Discord

After Graham Spanier’s conviction last week, a Penn State trustee said he was "running out of sympathy" for Jerry Sandusky’s abuse victims. Those remarks and a furious statement by Louis Freeh suggest anything but calm.

Government

Trump’s Proposed Cuts Threaten Colleges’ Key Job-Training Programs

The president has spoken out about putting Americans back to work, but college leaders fear that his budget plan would sharply undermine that goal.

Faculty

Why Hundreds of Christian Faculty Members Have Signed a ‘Statement of Confession’

Lisa DeBoer, a professor at Westmont College, explains the significance of a statement whose signatories promise to recognize "vulnerable populations among us" and "ways we benefit from and participate in structural injustices."

Publishing

Duquesne U. Rejects Last-Ditch Proposals to Save Its Press

The publications of the 90-year-old press, which got an annual subsidy of $200,000, include a highly regarded journal of Milton studies.

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The Chronicle Review

Huddled Masses? Nah. Bring Me Your Ph.D.s.

Academe rightly objects to President Trump’s immigration bans. But by doing so for corporatist, not humanitarian, reasons, it tacitly endorses his priorities.

Lingua Franca

For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never Said.

Ben Yagoda praises a new book, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations, by Garson O'Toole.

Ms. Mentor

He Keeps Calling Us ‘Females’

How to explain to a colleague that you are a woman, not a cow.

Vitae

From Ivory to Glass Tower

Social media has made academia more visible to the wider society, and, thus, made academics more vulnerable.