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Students

What a University Can Learn From Wegmans premium

By Lee Gardner

American University hopes to translate the customer-service ethos developed by the successful grocery chain into better student-service policies.

Faculty

How Much Can Unions Lift Adjuncts? CUNY Contract Fight Hinges on What’s Good Enough premium

By Peter Schmidt

Many of the City University of New York’s part-time faculty members oppose a new labor agreement that their union heralds as offering them big gains.

Campus Safety

‘I Want to Get This Right’: Scenes From a Conference on Campus Sex Assault premium

By Sarah Brown

When officials from 33 colleges met in Washington to discuss a new curriculum for assault investigations, conducting fair interviews and making sense of consent emerged as key themes.


Views

The Chronicle Review

Why Social Science Risks Irrelevance

By danah boyd

The privilege to pursue knowledge carries a responsibility to share it with the world.  

Lingua Franca

You Say Div-ISS-ive, I Say Div-EYE-sive

Lucy Ferriss considers the small language choices that powerful people make, sometimes consciously and sometimes without thinking.

Advice

First Person

How and Why We Built a Majority-Minority Faculty

By Kevin R. Johnson

Professors tend to replicate themselves, and diverse hiring committees tend to replicate their own diversity.

Vitae

'Dear Forums ...': How Can I Make the Most of a Visiting Assistant Professorship?

Also in our weekly roundup of the best conversations from The Chronicle's discussion forums: how to write a diversity statement.

Job Opportunities

President, Jackson State Community College
Tennessee, United States

Associate for Research Investment, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)
Virginia, United States

Edmonson-Miller Endowed Chair (Associate Professor/Professor) - Finance, Insurance and Law, Illinois State University
Illinois, United States

Master of Science in Nursing Program Director/Associate Professor, Misericordia University
Pennsylvania, United States

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