Academe Today

The New Campus Censors

Students are leading the assault on free speech — and faculty members and administrators are enabling them.

What’s Fueling the Free-Speech Wars?

Readers react to a recent essay blaming students and college leaders for undermining campus freedoms.

Students

Signs Naming Students Accused of Sexual Assault Reopen Wounds at Atlanta Colleges

Many students have celebrated the signs, posted at Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, as a blow against rape culture. 

Campus Climate

To Help Combat Racism, Kansas State U. Will Cancel Classes (for 2 Hours)

“We’re not going to let other people define our values,” one administrator said.

Technology

Why Faculty Members Still Aren’t Sure What to Make of Education Technology

Their mix of skepticism and enthusiasm results in what one researcher calls “some very weird doublethink.”

Government

Which Colleges Do Students Say Defraud Them Most Often? For-Profit Colleges

Nearly all allegations of fraud submitted to the U.S. Department of Education by students concern for-profit colleges, according to a new report from the Century Foundation.

Teaching

One Way to Fight Fake News

To navigate the internet successfully, students need more than a checklist.

Faculty

Academics Share Pictures of Their Tattoos

They have a few thoughts to share as well, about ink’s place in academe.

Students

Brooklyn College Students Are Sick of This Smelly Ginkgo Tree

“The tree smells like vomit, urine, and fecal matter,” a junior said. “It smelled like rotten milk,” said another student.

First Person

Dungeons & Dragons & Graduate School

What a role-playing game can teach you about thriving in a doctoral program.

Lingua Franca

Purity vs. Diversity

Would language be better if it were polished to perfection? Allan Metcalf ponders what that would mean for ours.