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Thursday, September 20, 2018


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Chief Executives

What’s on the Mind of the Private-College President? 3 Insights From a New Report premium

By Chris Quintana

The Council of Independent Colleges took the pulse of campus leaders and found race, representation, and a hostile political climate among their concerns.

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Leadership & Governance

U. of Tennessee Considers a Politically Connected Businessman to Run Its System

By Lee Gardner

Randy Boyd doesn’t have experience in academe, but the scandal-plagued system could use “an outside-in perspective,” as the chair of the Board of Trustees put it.

Research

Journals Retract 6 More Articles by a Controversial Cornell Food Scientist

By Tom Bartlett

Brian Wansink called the latest retractions, which bring his total to more than a dozen, “very unjust.” Meanwhile, the university said its own investigation of the researcher is about to conclude.

From the Archives

Spoiled Science

By Tom Bartlett

How a seemingly innocent blog post led to serious doubts about Cornell’s famous food laboratory.

Data

Which Colleges Have the Most Managers per Student? premium

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The median number of managers per 1,000 students in 2016 was twice as high for four-year private nonprofit colleges as it was for four-year public colleges.


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Advice

Before You Write a Cover Letter for a Nonfaculty Job, Try This Exercise

By Erin Bartram

For Ph.D.s, figuring out how to describe your “transferable skills” is a lot harder than it looks.

Lingua Franca

To Each Their Own

Everyone understands their own language a little differently. Could that assumption lead us to the anonymous White House blogger? Allan Metcalf explains why not.

 

 


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