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Thursday, March 8, 2018


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Faculty

Why Creative-Writing Programs Have Been Havens for Harassment premium

By Nell Gluckman

Students and former students say the male-dominated field, with its intimate workshops and reverence for stars, is particularly conducive to sexual misconduct and predatory behavior.

Special Reports

These Ph.D. Programs Pay More Than Lip Service to Alternative Careers premium

By Vimal Patel

Doctoral programs have an urgent directive from students, the public, and the professors who run them: It’s time to change.

Special Reports

Who’s in Charge on College Campuses? Students premium

By Lawrence Biemiller

Demographic, institutional, and political changes are putting more power in their hands.

Curriculum

Enrollment in Most Foreign-Language Programs Continues to Fall

By Julian Wyllie

Japanese and Korean stood out as exceptions in a new study that shows overall decreases since 2013.

Teaching

Bias Affects Instructors’ Interactions With Online Students, Study Finds premium

By Emma Kerr

Instructors in MOOCs are nearly twice as likely to respond to discussion posts from white male students.

Faculty

Arizona State U. Professor Is Placed on Paid Leave After Sex-Harassment Allegations

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz

The university says it is still looking into claims made against a prominent physics scholar in a BuzzFeed News investigation.


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A Survival Guide for Small Colleges

As they struggle to hold onto their share of the student market, small liberal-arts colleges face many challenges. Here’s what they’re doing to succeed.

Leadership at HBCUs

Here’s what presidents of historically black colleges and universities are doing to overcome the challenges that they, their institutions, and their students face.


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Commentary

Technical or Cultural Courses? Students Need Both

By Barry Glassner and Morton Schapiro

If higher education doesn’t become more interdisciplinary, graduates won’t succeed.

Advice

No More Formulaic Composition Essays

By David Gooblar

How to use movie trailers, social media, and other nontraditional forms of rhetoric to improve student writing.

Lingua Franca

Gertrude Stein: the Original Texter

As she teaches about 1920s Paris, Lucy Ferriss finds parallels in Stein’s lack of punctuation and her students’ language today. But the students take grammar so seriously — while Stein had fun.


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