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Teaching

Her Students Asked About Police Shootings. So She Created a Guide for Them. premium

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz

A 48-page course reader by a professor at Montclair State University has taken on a second life and illustrated students’ desire to use the classroom as a place to discuss the issue.

On Leadership

Video: Spellings Says UNC Has Been ‘Murky’ on Accountability

By Sarah Brown

In a recent interview, the University of North Carolina president also spoke about a new tuition rate of $500 per semester on three campuses and – perhaps most important – how she compares North Carolina barbecue to Texas barbecue.

Technology

Ride-Sharing Services and Boundary-Blurring Buildings: A Vision of the Future Campus premium

By Goldie Blumenstyk

Don’t expect the residential experience to go away any time soon. But it might start to look pretty different, thanks in large part to the internet of things.


Views

The Chronicle Review

Our ‘Prophet of Deceit’

By Richard Wolin

Studies by WWII-era social scientists provide a starting point for explaining Trump’s appeal and gauging the significance of his candidacy.

Vitae

Our House Is a Very, Very, Very Cheap House

By Rebecca Schuman

Aside from the cost, the chief advantage of living on campus as a graduate student was also the chief disadvantage.

Lingua Franca

Your Guys’: Opinion

That’s a possessive form of you guys that popped up around the turn of the century. Ben Yagoda asks: What do you think?


Job Opportunities

Assistant Professor Position in Business Ethics, Rutgers University- Newark and New Brunswick
New Jersey, United States

Multiple Positions: College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois, United States

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, Western Washington University
Washington, United States

Academic Dean, Prescott College
Arizona, United States

Assistant Professor - Applied Mathematics (Tenure-Track), The College of New Jersey
New Jersey, United States

Assistant Professor - Statistics (Tenure-Track), The College of New Jersey
New Jersey, United States

Assistant Professor in 19th Century American Literature, Binghamton University
New York, United States

Director of Institutional Equity, The Spence School
New York, United States

Tools & Resources

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The Professor Is In!
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