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Monday, January 8, 2018


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Faculty

The Fight to Rebuild a Ravaged University

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz

When Hurricane Maria plunged the University of Puerto Rico into gloom, professors and students had no choice but to bring back the light.

Campus Speech

A Grad Student Defended a Controversial Instructor. Now He Says He’s Being Silenced. premium

By Sarah Brown

A Ph.D. candidate at UCLA spoke out on behalf of Keith Fink, a conservative professor whose case drew national attention last year.

Finance

U. of Illinois Extends Tuition Freeze to Stem Enrollment Slide

By Lee Gardner

The state’s two-year budget impasse continues to reverberate, even at its top-level universities.

Faculty

Lecturer’s Critique of Whiteness Crossed the Line Into Harassment, State Investigation Finds

By Katherine Mangan

A Native American instructor at San Diego State University harassed and discriminated against a white student, in part by accusing her of trying to be a "white savior," a deputy attorney general concluded.

Administration

Grand Canyon U. Will Again Try to Become a Nonprofit

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz

The college, which is owned by a for-profit company, wants to change its status after being rebuffed once by its accreditor, in 2016.

On Leadership

A Small College’s Financial Innovations

By Alexander C. Kafka

Jeff Abernathy, president of Alma College, in Michigan, discusses how he is stretching a dollar, rethinking administrative structure at the top, and using technology to help Alma and two other small private colleges pool their curricular resources.


Views


The Chronicle Review

The #MeToo Movement Isn’t About Women’s Frailty. It’s About Women’s Labor.

By Sara L. Maurer

Not wanting to do the extra work of managing harassment doesn’t make us fragile.

Advice

10 Common Grant-Writing Mistakes

By Jude P. Mikal and Gina Rumore

It might not be the science that brought you a rejection but the nonscientific gaffes in your proposal.

Lingua Franca

Word(s) of the Year 2017

Anne Curzan recaps the American Dialect Society's votes on lexical items that capture the spirit of the year just past, including the winners of Emoji of the Year and WTF?


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A Changing Landscape in Health Care Coverage
Major milestones in health care for retirees since the creation of Medicare.


Job Opportunities


Assistant Professor of Water Quality Engineering, University of Washington
Washington, United States

Dean of The Bennett S. Lebow College of Business, Drexel University
Pennsylvania, United States

Full Professor of Mental Health & Wellbeing in Education, University of York
United Kingdom

PRESIDENT, Lewis-Clark State College
Idaho, United States

College of Engineering / Multiple Positions, University of California, Riverside
California, United States

Director - NAE Center for Engineering Ethics and Society, National Academy of Sciences
District of Columbia, United States

Malcolm Broomhead Chair in Finance, The University of Queensland
Australia

Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Massachusetts, United States

Assistant/Associate Professor -Data Analytics for Population Health, ASU, Coll of Health Solutions, Dept of Biomedical Informatics
Arizona, United States

Assistant/Associate Professor -Human Computer Interaction , ASU, Coll of Health Solutions, Dept of Biomedical Informatics
Arizona, United States

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