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An Author Learned of a Mortifying Research Mistake Live on the Radio. Here’s How Twitter Reacted.
A crux of Naomi Wolf’s new book, Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love, seems to be based on a misunderstanding of a 19th-century legal term — a fact she didn’t discover until she was live on the BBC.
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A BBC interviewer drew Wolf's attention to two problems with her work. The exchange called into question a core thesis of Wolf's latest book, which is set to be released next month
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Are Women Invisible to Economists? One Scholar Is Stripping Down to Make Them Look
Victoria Bateman’s naked protests challenge what she sees as the field’s gender problem.
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The Cambridge economic historian Victoria Bateman thinks the female contribution to Western prosperity has been unacknowledged. She lectures naked to make women more visible.
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The Humanities Without Nostalgia
Harking back to an era of “peak English” betrays marginalized scholars.
The Grant Ran Out, the Job Ended — Go Ahead and Grieve
She always knew her contingent position would cease after four years. That didn’t make losing it any easier.
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“With the summer break fast approaching, I very likely am not the only contingent worker thinking about endings in higher education.”
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Why One Scholar Sees Little Evidence on Campus of a Free-Speech ‘Crisis’ — but Plenty of Panic
Jeffrey A. Sachs, a lecturer in politics at Canada’s Acadia University, believes that an overblown fear is gripping administrators and commentators.
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“The language of crisis and catastrophe that has enveloped the debate is driven largely by political actors who see this as a potent line of attack.”
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Why It’s OK to Submit Flawed Work
It’s time to wrest that article or manuscript from your neurotic mitts.
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"Something bizarre happens during that final 10 percent. Something that turns mild-mannered scholars into full-on academic zombies, insatiable for the innards of the meticulous arguments they just spent months crafting."
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Was Harvard’s Dismissal of Sullivan From Resident-Faculty Role Just? It Depends on Whom You Ask
Students cite a long history of friction, while the professor’s defenders say the accusations are ginned up.
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The stereotyping of student protesters and their objections as lefty hysterics is unfair, a former student says. It also disregards allegations of Sullivan’s bullying of and clashing with tutors, staff members, and students.
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Trump Wants to Use Extra Pell Money for NASA. But That Surplus Is There for a Good Reason.
The president said Congress should divert an excess of federal student-aid dollars to other programs. But higher-education experts said the rainy-day funds are intended for the next financial downturn.
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One expert said raiding the Pell Grant program to fund NASA feels like a family tapping its savings to contend for the “neighborhood’s ‘best Christmas-light display.’”
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Harvard Law Professor Ousted From Deanship, Leaves Weinstein Defense Team
The dean of the college said Harvard would not renew the appointments of its first two African-American faculty deans. One of them, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., is leaving the legal team defending Harvey Weinstein.
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The dean of the college announced on Saturday that Harvard would not renew the appointments of its first two African-American faculty deans. One of them, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., is leaving the legal team defending Harvey Weinstein.
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Its City Was Hurting. The Schools Were Strapped. So This University Took Charge.
A controversial law giving Ball State University control of its city’s schools will soon be a year old. Can a state university confront long-term threats by focusing closest to home?
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Ball State University is one year into a town-gown experiment of unprecedented scale. Can it serve everybody while handling the hot coal of local education?
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Coming Soon to a Storefront by You: A Microcampus for Online Learners
The new spaces, which borrow ideas from the coworking movement and Amazon’s stores, are heavy on amenities but light on classrooms.
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A historian and author of a book on the future of higher education says he isn’t surprised by the direction microcampuses are taking. “It mirrors where retail is going,” he says. “It’s about experiencing the brand.”
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How Colleges Use 6-Word Stories About Race as a Teaching Tool
Reading the submissions to the Race Card Project can be uncomfortable. That discomfort can be a first step toward understanding.
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Colleges are “often the most diverse environment we as individuals find in our lifetimes,” said Michele Norris, the former NPR host who founded the Race Card Project.
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After Protests, Swarthmore Will End All Greek Life on Campus
A sit-in and a four-day hunger strike by student activists led the college’s president to close all fraternities and sororities.
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Swarthmore College will formally ban all fraternities and sororities after recent student protests led to the disbanding of two fraternities
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Johns Hopkins Won Its Battle With Student Activists. But at What Cost?
The occupation of the university’s Garland Hall may be over, but the tensions that animated it are far from resolved.
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Johns Hopkins won the battle, but it did little to win the hearts and minds of its students, faculty members, and people in the community.
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‘Israel Studies’ Journal Controversy Escalates as June Meeting Nears
The turmoil suggests a deep political rift that puts the Association for Israel Studies’ future into question.
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The essays in "Word Crimes" are case studies in what the authors contend is anti-Israeli weaponization of language to distort and inflame discussion of policy and politics.
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The Best (and Worst) Ways to Respond to Student Anxiety
A faculty member who has struggled with clinical anxiety explores how to deal with the rising rates of undergraduate mental-health issues.
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The safety of the setting is key: Professors who believe students are supposed to be anxious when they give a presentation are not creating an accessible classroom climate.
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Harvard Bans Former Scholar, Citing 'Unwelcome Sexual Conduct' Over Decades
Jorge I. Domínguez, Harvard University's former vice provost for international affairs, "engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct" over "nearly four decades," according to a long-awaited university investigation. He was the subject of a 2018 Chroni
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Breaking news: Harvard University has found a prominent former government professor, Jorge I. Domínguez, responsible for sexual misconduct and banned him from campus
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A Legendary Scientist Sounds Off on the Trouble With STEM
E.O. Wilson on the next big thing, the gladiatorial nature of academe, and the world beyond the human senses.
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What if artists tried to capture the sensory surrounds of insects? E.O. Wilson on the humanities, arachnids, and the "nonsense" of STEM
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13 Yale Professors Threatened to Resign From Ethnic Studies. The University Listened.
The senior faculty members had said the lack of resources and instability of the program were unsustainable.
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The professors’ protest prompted discussion about the challenges minority scholars continue to face and the lack of support for their disciplines.
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Why an ‘Affirmative-Action Bake Sale’ Prompted This President to Speak Up
The University of Washington is preparing to consider race in admissions and hiring after the state’s Legislature repealed a ban on affirmative action. Ana Mari Cauce spoke with The Chronicle about that and about a recent conservative event tha
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“It was more than about the price of cookies. It seemed to be about the price of people.”
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