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Friday, December 15, 2017


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Stop the Generational Moralizing About Free Speech premium

By Leon Botstein

The case for free speech must be made with appropriate sensitivity to the perspective of its critics.

Free Speech on Campus, and Its Limits

Unguarded speech on social media and on campuses can lead to all kinds of grief. Here’s how colleges have become tangled in debates over free speech when professors and students speak out.


Today’s News


Teaching

When Students Aren’t as Prepared as They Look on Paper

The problem of academic preparation touches every corner of academe. 

Admissions & Student Aid

Demographic Changes as Destiny in College Admissions? It’s Complicated

By Eric Hoover

Projected shifts in the applicant pool prompt doom-and-gloom predictions at many institutions. But Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College, says the forecast varies from campus to campus.

Technology

Repeal of Net-Neutrality Rules Disappoints Higher-Ed Associations

By Julia Martinez and Sam Hoisington

The Federal Communications Commissions decision to allow internet-service providers to favor some types of online traffic over others could hurt research and instruction, college groups say.

Data

Tuition and Fees, 1998-99 Through 2017-18

A newly updated sortable and searchable table shows the “sticker prices” — published tuition and required fees — at more than 3,000 colleges and universities for the 2017-18 academic year, with historical data back to 1998.


Views


Advice

Ph.D.s Are Still Writing Poorly

By Rachel Toor

Be brave enough to put your ideas into the world unadorned by all the bad habits you picked up in grad school.

Lingua Franca

The Fine Line Between Errors and Dialect Differences

Geoff Pullum wrestles with the sentence “Imagine if I hadn’t of been there!”


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Job Opportunities


Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty Positions (Lecturers) in Management, Rutgers University
New Jersey, United States

Vice President for University Communications and Marketing, Tulane University
Louisiana, United States

Assistant Professor of Printmaking, Tenure-Track, East Tennessee State University
Tennessee, United States

Criminology and Criminal Justice Lecturer, Northern Arizona University
Arizona, United States

Multiple Faculty Positions - Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, Texas A&M University - Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas, United States

Director of the Center for Big Data at NJIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Jersey, United States

Director of the Campus School, Boston College
Massachusetts, United States

Associate Vice President for Development, Bloomsburg University Foundation
Pennsylvania, United States

Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Head of Campus (Sydney), University of Notre Dame (Australia)
Australia

Full-Time Core Faculty Position and Director of Field Placement, Organizational and Leadership Psychology Department, William James College
Massachusetts, United States

Tools & Resources


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