Since writing an essay analyzing the history of ancient statues, and why they are now mostly white, a University of Iowa professor has received insults and threats.
Mark Schlissel, president of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, says the new plan will be a loud, clear message for the state’s needy students. But some critics say that might be empty advertising.
Professors’ group does the same for Phillips Community College, but it rebukes Spalding University and the Community College of Aurora for firing dissenting faculty.
The administration’s move to keep one Obama-era program while formally ending another left questions about whether those actions could disrupt families of undocumented immigrants.
Jeremy Bailenson, a professor at Stanford University and founding director of its Virtual Human Interaction Lab, says the technology, in the right circumstances, can be educationally transformative.
In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are more than 25. Here are a couple of examples:
Students whose parents don’t have bachelor’s degrees face significant financial, cultural, and educational barriers. Yet they enroll in college in significant numbers. This 32-page collection looks at how professors and administrators can help them prevail.
Some American academics broaden their job opportunities by choosing to work overseas. This 28-page collection describes how academics have adapted to expectations and political realities at posts in Europe, the Middle East, and South Korea.
The journal American Speech, looks back on 75 years of words coined each year. Allan Metcalf reflects on what the words tell us about our history.
Paid for and Created by University of Vermont University Patents Hold Commercial Promise Researchers at UVM hope to turn breakthroughs in the lab into commercial successes.
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