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Monday, November 27, 2017


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Student Feedback

What Professors Can Learn About Teaching From Their Students premium

By Beckie Supiano

Some classroom observations and other assessments at the University of California at Merced can be especially valuable because of who’s performing them: undergraduates.

Teaching

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Tenure

When ‘Collegiality’ and Evaluating Faculty Collide premium

By Audrey Williams June

The concept appears, explicitly or implicitly, in many faculty manuals. But it’s often vague and unevenly applied, and it can stifle dissent.

Faculty

Prominent Creative-Writing Professor at UVa Is Accused of Sexually Harassing Students

By Katherine Mangan

John Casey, who won a National Book Award in 1989, is said to have favored male students, made sexual comments to female students, and subjected them to unwanted touching.

Faculty

Sexual Harassment and Assault in Higher Ed: What’s Happened Since Weinstein

By Nell Gluckman, Brock Read, and Katherine Mangan

Revelations about the film producer’s apparent pattern of sexual misconduct are just a couple of months old, but the reverberations have been deeply felt across academe. Here are the latest updates, from Wednesday, on cases at Brown and Michigan State Universities.

The Chronicle Interview

How Real-World Learning Could Help People Compete With Machines premium

By Scott Carlson

Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University, says colleges must change how they educate for a work force dominated by automation.

Thanksgiving

Turkeys Go Off to College After Presidential Pardon

By Sam Hoisington

The birds have been admitted to Virginia Tech’s farm, where their predecessors are minor celebrities.


Views


First Person

How to Escape Grading Jail

By Kevin Gannon

In the end-of-the-semester crush, our students don’t do their best work in all-night cram sessions, and neither do we.

Lingua Franca

An Orgy in Iceland

William Germano finds the Icelandic language, our closest living relative to Old Norse, to be mysterious and beautiful.


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The Next Step in Social
The 2017 Social Campus Report explores areas of opportunity for institutions as they look to expand their social media outreach.


Job Opportunities


Tenure-Track Positions August 2018, Drury University
Missouri, United States

Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Lubbock Christian University
Texas, United States

Assistant Professor, Political Science, Aga Khan University
United Kingdom

Chancellor, South Orange County Community College District
California, United States

President, Northland College
Wisconsin, United States

Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, Idaho State University
Idaho, United States

Associate Dean, College of Business, Bryant University
Rhode Island, United States

Dean of Education, St. Mary's University
Canada

System Provost, SUNY System Administration
New York, United States

Dean of Continuing Education and Workforce Development, Hudson County Community College
New Jersey, United States

Tools & Resources


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