Academe Today

Publishing

These Professors Don’t Work for a Predatory Publisher. It Keeps Claiming They Do.

Scholars falsely listed as editors of “The International Journal of Humanities and Social Science” can’t seem to make it go away.

From the Archives

Why Beall’s List Died — and What It Left Unresolved About Open Access

A librarian abruptly shuttered a blacklist of journals he deemed untrustworthy. But while Jeffrey Beall’s project has ended, debates over its merit and impact live on.

Sexual Misconduct

‘I Want to Hear Those Charges’: Noted Sociologist Defers Award Until He Can ‘Make Amends’

Michael Kimmel of Stony Brook University says he will not attend his discipline’s scholarly awards ceremony this month in Philadelphia.

Tenure

Why the Historian Behind the ‘I Have a Black Friend’ Essay Wants to Reach People Beyond His Classroom

Tyler Parry, who teaches African-American history at California State at Fullerton, thinks social media opens opportunities for scholars and should be counted toward tenure.

Government

Trump to Nominate U. of Oklahoma Weather Expert to Top Science and Tech Post

If confirmed, Kelvin Droegemeier will head the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.  

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The Chronicle Review

Why the University’s Insatiable Appetite Will Be Its Undoing

It's time for higher education to do less.

Lingua Franca

The Grammar of the Adjective Is Not What’s Wrong With ‘Illegal Alien’

The Justice Department’s order that undocumented people should be called illegal aliens smacks of Newspeak but is linguistically unobjectionable. What’s nasty is the attitude behind it.