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Will My Students Actually Want to Do This Assignment?
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The best way to start motivating students to do well in your course is to ask them what they want out of the class.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education Decades of research tell us that it’s far more preferable for students to learn out of intrinsic motivation rather than be pushed by extrinsic factors like grades. 37h
How Universities Should Deal With the Trump Administration
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Higher education needs clear rules of engagement: no honorary titles, no named lectures, no keynote speeches.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education No honorary titles, no named lectures, no keynote speeches. 47h
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Teaching
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New technologies promise to make the classroom experience more interactive and personal, but they also raise concerns about ethics and privacy.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education Artificial intelligence is showing up more frequently in college classrooms, particularly at big institutions that are seeking to make large courses more intimate and interactive. 50h
NYU Scholar Accused of Harassment Assails Rush to Judgment as Sign of ‘Sexual Paranoia’
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The florid, campy emails she exchanged with a Ph.D. student were typical of how she speaks, and reflected her role as a mentor, Avital Ronell said in a rare interview.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education NYU found Avital Ronell responsible for harassment, but cleared her of other charges. She said of the inquiry: “I was in a kangaroo court, and now I look completely like a caricature of predatory aggression, which is a joke to anyone who knows me.” 51h
A Veteran President Calls on Colleges to Stop the Snobbery
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Hierarchies die hard, but prestige should be based less on exclusivity and more on serving all students, says Elaine Maimon of Governors State University.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education After spending three decades as a higher-ed leader, this college president has some thoughts about how to shake up academe. Among them: “We have to change the snobbism.” 51h
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The Chronicle of Higher Education After spending three decades as a higher-ed leader, this college president has some thoughts about how to shake up academe. Among them: “We have to change the snobbism.” 38h
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The Chronicle of Higher Education “Our biggest competitor is nowhere. Thirty-four percent of the freshmen that we admitted for the last three years, fully qualified, went nowhere.” 27h
Why Does Publishing Higher-Ed Research Take So Long?
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One leading journal has a two-year backlog and has halted submissions. Scholars wonder what this means about the state of their field.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education A perfect storm swamps higher-ed research publishing. Submissions soar and reviewers balk. Are tougher gatekeeping and reviewer incentives possible solutions? 3d
U. of Akron Will Phase Out 80 Degree Programs and Open New Esports Facilities
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The institution is calling its three new centers the “largest” devoted to video gaming at any college in the world.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education The University of Akron plans to phase out 80 degree programs and open vast new video-gaming areas. 3d
The University Must Be Defended
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It’s not an innocent victim, nor is it a soulless collaborator in democracy’s demise. But it does need a new vision of what it ought to be.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education "Universities are neither essentially nor historically democratic": Adam Daniel and Chad Wellmon respond to their critics. 4d
Does It Matter if a Political Candidate Has Steep Student-Loan Debts? Georgians Will Get to Decide
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The Democratic nominee for governor, Stacey Abrams, owes $96,000 for her college and law degrees. But she’s not the only candidate for high office this year who has borrowed to pay for college.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education Most candidates are free of student-loan debt. But that's because many are wealthy, including millionaires and some billionaires. A political scientist says the political process skew representation toward the rich. 4d
Enough ‘Do More With Less.’ It’s Time for Colleges to Find Actual Efficiencies.
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Most institutions have “zero idea how they earn a living” and where their margins are across programs, says Rick Staisloff, a consultant on finance and strategy.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education "Full-time faculty have become so diluted across more sections, more courses, more curriculum, that we really are not well positioned to take care of core mission, student success, et cetera." 4d
New Disclosures About an NYU Professor Reignite a War Over Gender and Harassment
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Avital Ronell, an influential scholar in feminist theory, was suspended by the university, which found that she had harassed a male graduate student. The news has prompted fierce criticism not just of the professor but of the scholars who defended he
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The Chronicle of Higher Education What happens after a female professor accused of doling out kisses and pet names to her male advisee is suspended without pay. 4d
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The Chronicle of Higher Education “The scholars who have signed a letter supporting Professor Ronell are sabotaging the plight of victims and the #metoo movement in ways that are truly reprehensible.” 4d
Researchers, Posing as Students, Quizzed Campus Officials About Sexual Assault. How Did They Do?
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Most of the administrators who responded correctly answered basic questions. But a few didn’t, and many didn’t even pick up the phone.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education More than 200 of their 632 calls to Title IX offices and campus-safety offices were never picked up by a live person. 5d
Admitting Significant Mistakes, Maryland Accepts Responsibility for Football Player’s Death
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The university’s president and athletics director said they met with Jordan McNair’s family on Tuesday as outrage over the administration’s response swirls.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education Staff members did not diagnose the athlete's heat-related illness, take his temperature, or treat him by immersing him in cold water. 5d
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education: Another Big Win for Philosophy
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Philosophy has attracted its second major gift of the year, with a $20-million donation to UCLA's philosophy department.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education What do recent donors to colleges care about? Addiction research, bioethics, engineering design, divinity studies, student success, and more. 6d
Shared Governance Does Not Mean Shared Decision Making
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In an effective and nimble governing model, faculty representatives serve as advisers while the president and board make the hard choices.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education "What occurred after Katrina was not, in fact, the suspension of shared governance, but rather the emergence of a more effective and unencumbered version of shared governance." 6d
How a Decades-Old Experiment Sparked a War Over the Future of Psychology
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The Stanford Prison Experiment lasted just six days, and it took place 47 years ago. But it has shaped our fundamental understanding of human nature. Now many in the field are wondering: Should it have?
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The Chronicle of Higher Education "The implication is, if the Stanford Prison Experiment is a lie, then Zimbardo is a liar. And so my professional integrity is being attacked.” 6d
Maryland’s President Warned of ‘Dormant Volcanoes.’ Now, One Looks Ready to Blow.
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Wallace Loh announced a second inquiry into the University of Maryland’s football program on Saturday after ESPN detailed allegations of verbal abuse and intimidation of athletes.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education Athletics departments hold significant power over university leadership, attracting eyeballs and in some cases revenue, in addition to support from trustees and alumni. 6d
That New Hire Needs Your Help
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Here’s how to assist your new colleagues in their first year on the campus.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education The range of service opportunities can be daunting, and most new hires will not know the inside scoop on which committee assignments to court and which to avoid. 7d
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The Chronicle of Higher Education Here’s how to assist your new faculty colleagues in their first year on the campus 7d
How to Help Combat Global Warming, Campus by Campus
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A confluence of expertise, enthusiasm, talent, and social responsibility makes universities the logical first responders to the growing climate-change crisis.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education "With the Trump administration questioning climate change and dismantling regulations established by previous administrations, we believe that solutions to global warming must come from the country’s 334 research universities." 10d
Education Dept. Proposes Tossing Gainful-Employment Rule, Which Took Aim at For-Profit Colleges
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The department plans to bolster the College Scorecard, or a similar public-facing consumer tool, instead of using student-debt levels to hold underperforming institutions accountable. 
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The Chronicle of Higher Education The Education Department has proposed repealing the gainful-employment rule, which was a pillar of President Obama's crackdown on for-profit colleges 10d