Academe Today Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Sign up for this newsletter | Presses Under Pressure | University Presses By Samuel Cohen When university presses close, so do our minds. |
| The Chronicle Review Publishers, press directors, editors, scholars, and other insiders share their views on the state and future of academic publishing. |
Todayâs News | Finance By Bianca Quilantan The University of Massachusetts at Amherst said this month it would buy a campus that was shutting down, Mount Ida College. People at UMass-Boston weren’t thrilled. |
| Students By Emma Kerr “There’s this assumption that everyone here is wealthy,” says one of the online guide’s creators. |
| re:Learning at SXSWedu By Scott Carlson Julie Wollman, president of Widener University, and Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Center, a nonprofit group, discuss how education can help people understand First Amendment rights in an age of incivility. |
Correction | An item in Monday’s newsletter stated incorrectly that a $1-million museum would be built at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to study and honor campus minority groups. The university will undertake a history project that will include an exhibit. |
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Views | Special Reports By Adam Evans How to use it, and what to beware of. |
| Special Reports By Esther C. Kim What one instructor learned from YouTube, and other strategies that helped her better motivate her students. |
| Lingua Franca Poppycock, says Geoff Pullum. Dropping the occasional pictograph into their prose is not going to strip people of the capacity to form sentences. |
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