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'Hungry to Learn'
Five students describe their struggles with food and housing insecurity and what colleges can do to help.
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Five students describe their struggles with food and housing insecurity and what colleges can do to help.
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What You Need to Know About the Proposed Title IX Regulations
The long-awaited draft rules would replace the Obama administration’s guidance, which had called for more aggressive enforcement of the 1972 law mandating gender equity among colleges that accept federal money.
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Democrats in the House and Senate condemned the proposals as undermining support for sexual-harassment victims
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Colleges With the Most Students Who End Up Working In State and Out of State
Where do students end up when they leave college? Many of them stay fairly close to their alma mater, but students of elite colleges tend to scatter.
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Where did all those students go? A data-analytics firm looks at millions of people and tracks where they end up.
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Students who attend public universities tend to stay in the state that helped educate them. But those who went to elite colleges scatter far and wide. See our list.
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The Cost of His Crusade
A famous scientist is determined to protect his reputation. What happens when an old friend gets in the way?
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Their research collaboration was life-changing. Now, he’s suing her for conspiring against him.
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Who Will Defend the University?
The academy has nurtured many partisan causes, but there seem to be few partisans of the academy itself left.
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The university is now a site for political battles. Lost, in the fighting, is the importance of advocating for the university itself.
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Colleges Teach Students How to Think. Should They Also Teach Them How to Thrive?
A surge in anxiety and depression has played a part in persuading colleges to take a more active role in helping students to shape their lives.
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A number of colleges across the country are seeking to guide students as they chart their own paths toward finding meaning. Often, these projects describe their goals as helping students "thrive," or supporting their "flourishing" or "well-being."
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Instructors Spend ‘Emotional Labor’ in Diversity Courses, and Deserve Credit for It
For most faculty members, moderating heated discussions and hearing students’ personal tribulations are part of the job. That could be OK, a new paper says, if it were recognized and rewarded.
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"Students who come into my office crying, they’re not crying about their papers, or their grades. … They’re coming in talking about microaggressions, about things that happen on campus, things people are saying to them."
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Teachers of diversity courses don’t necessarily see the emotional weight they carry as a problem, but cite "emotional exhaustion" all the same.
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Is the ‘Trump Effect’ Scaring Away Prospective International Students?
New data show a drop in enrollments from abroad. The president can’t take all — or even most — of the blame, but experts say his hostility to globalism could complicate colleges’ efforts to stanch the bleeding.
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The slowdown in international students is especially harmful to regional public universities.
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Lecturer Who Called Police on Student Wasn’t Biased but Needs Training, University Says
An investigation at the University of Texas at San Antonio cites escalating classroom tensions, poor judgment, and a missent email as factors in an incident seen in a viral video.
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The instructor “failed to manage her classroom” and displayed “poor judgment,” but her actions do not warrant her firing, a report says.
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Dartmouth Allowed 3 Professors to Sexually Harass and Assault Students, Lawsuit Charges
Current and former students say that the faculty members groped them, plied them with alcohol, and, in some cases, raped them, and that the college was slow to respond to their complaints.
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The lawsuit, which seeks $70 million in damages, describes an academic department where heavy drinking, misogyny, and sexual harassment were rampant.
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Seven current and former students have sued Dartmouth College, saying it failed to protect them from three professors who sexually harassed and assaulted them
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Colleges Can Recover From Racial Crisis by Taking a Lesson From Mizzou
The university’s 2015 protests drew national attention. A new report details what leaders of the flagship campus and the University of Missouri system have done to further healing and forestall renewed protests.
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It can feel uncomfortable to talk candidly about racism and injustice. So college administrators often rely on formulaic, prepared statements.
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Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas.’ Cue the Outcry.
Scholars concerned about repercussions from their work will have a new outlet.
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One unusual feature of the journal will be giving authors the option to use a pseudonym. The thought is that such a policy would allow an untenured academic to publish a controversial paper.
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A paper that’s deemed offensive can unleash an online mob and turn an academic’s career and life upside down. That’s why a group of scholars is creating The Journal of Controversial Ideas
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A Star Professor, Removed From Endowed Chair for Harassment, Accuses Yale of ‘Pandering’ to #MeToo Activists
Michael Simons, a cardiologist, does not dispute that he “pursued by email” a postdoctoral researcher in his school. But he says he’s been punished enough for an incident that occurred years ago.
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Booted from his second endowed chair, the researcher blamed activists for not letting him get on with his career.
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How a Department Took On the Next Frontier in the #MeToo Movement
It’s one thing to crack down on overt harassment, but dealing with subtle sexism is a different story. One grad student pushed her professors to try.
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It’s one thing to crack down on overt harassment, but dealing with subtle sexism is a different story. Here’s how one department tried to tackle it
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Subtle incidents of sexism can be awkward to talk about and hard to define. But over time, they can make women question their place in the academy.
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5 Tips for New Department Chairs
What happens after you’ve been named department chair? A sure change in department dynamics and tasks to do. In this Two-Minute Tips video, Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz offers five tips to smooth your transition to department chair.
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Congratulations, you've been named department chair. Now what?
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For Colleges, an Election to Celebrate and Fear
The Republicans who won are more conservative and Trump-aligned than those who lost, which means that colleges may have more to worry about than they did before.
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"We are likely to see an acceleration of fear-mongering and naked xenophobia flowing from the White House. That puts colleges and universities directly at risk."
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Students Accused a Colorado Professor of Harassment. Now She’s Been Placed on Leave.
The sociologist, who directed the department’s graduate program, is being investigated by the flagship campus for sexual misconduct involving people she supervised.
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The accusations against the sociologist describe a pattern of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct that spans more than a decade.
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5 Teaching Tips From ‘How Humans Learn’
A new book draws from human evolution and early-childhood development to suggest practices that professors can use in the classroom.
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What can professors do to encourage student curiosity? Be a bit more approachable.
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Want to Keep Your Talented Professors? Sponsor Their Professional Development
When you hired them, you made a great investment. To keep them, help them hone their skills and manage their work-life balance so they don’t burn out.
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How to retain faculty members — especially women and people of color — is a question colleges are thinking about a lot. They're creating support systems to help professors work at their fullest potential.
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How to retain faculty members — especially women and people of color — is a question colleges are thinking about a lot. They're creating support systems to help professors work at their fullest potential.
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A Professor Liked a Photo on Facebook. Then a Political Aide Said He Was Supporting Vandalism.
When Ari Cohen saw a picture of a campaign poster defaced with a fart joke, he chuckled — and then clicked “like.” He didn’t expect the candidate’s chief of staff to give him a call.