The Chronicle Review

An Antidote for American Amnesia

Tiya Miles maps forgotten corners of slave history.

Athletics

Basketball Scandal Highlights the Power of the Assistant Coach — and the Limits of Oversight

The charges against former coaches provide a behind-the-scenes look at how assistants serve as key points of access to college players — and how checks on their power fall short.

Administration

Inside the Free-Speech Case That Caught Jeff Sessions’ Eye

The Justice Department is intervening in a case at Georgia Gwinnett College involving a student’s claim that he was prevented from religious proselytizing on campus.

Teaching

Teaching Newsletter: A Conversation at Harvard

As elite colleges try to enroll more diverse, first-generation, and low-income students, how should these institutions support them once they get there?

The Chronicle Interview

Chemist Turned Politician Sees Thousands of Other Scientist-Lawmakers as the Solution

Grounded in facts and reason, scientists could solve the nation’s policy problems, says Shaughnessy Naughton. Her advocacy group 314 Action is trying to get them in the game.

Chronicle Focus

In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are more than 25. Here are a couple of examples:

How to Help First-Generation Students Succeed

Students whose parents don’t have bachelor’s degrees face significant financial, cultural, and educational barriers. Yet they enroll in college in significant numbers. This 32-page collection looks at how professors and administrators can help them prevail.

Teaching Abroad

Some American academics broaden their job opportunities by choosing to work overseas. This 28-page collection describes how academics have adapted to expectations and political realities at posts in Europe, the Middle East, and South Korea.

First Person

The Making of a Public Intellectual

How do you know if you are one or should want to be one?

Lingua Franca

On the Ropes at Radio London

London cheers as Geoff Pullum, learned professor, gets thwacked on a breakfast talk show.

ProfHacker

Using Digital Archives to Teach Data-Set Creation and Visualization Design

The guest author Kate Holterhoff introduces her website, Visual Haggard, about the illustration in H. Rider Haggard’s works, and explains how she uses it to teach students about data sets and visual analysis.