Academe Today Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Sign up for this newsletter | Confronting Harassment in Higher Ed | The Chronicle Review By Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young In shielding students from sexual harassers, professors support a broken system. |
| Faculty Distress and complications often follow when faculty members focus unwanted sexual attention on their students or junior colleagues. Here’s how college officials deal with such cases and try to resolve complaints. |
Also in Todayâs News | Admissions By Eric Hoover Two admissions officials who received a letter of inquiry from the department said it is apparently investigating whether colleges have agreed to "restrain trade" within the student-recruitment process. |
| Government By Michael Vasquez The for-profit institution will continue to receive millions in federal dollars that it may or may not be eligible for. |
| Students By Chris Quintana Tales of rapidly paying off enormous amounts of student debt are popular on the internet, but many borrowers don't have the advantages to blast away loans. |
| Government By Paul Basken It took Jon H. Oberg, a determined federal bureaucrat, more than a decade of work to claw back one-tenth of the money student-loan providers had claimed using an accounting loophole. Here Mr. Oberg provides the fullest account of the saga — and the lessons he drew from it. |
| Faculty By Steve Kolowich The emotional neediness of American voters has shaped the last 140 years of history, according to Jeremy Young, an assistant professor of history at Dixie State U. And that’s not going to change. |
Correction | An item in Tuesday's Academe Today newsletter incorrectly referred to Wesleyan University as Wesleyan College. |
Views | Advice By Leonard Cassuto A new book seeks to help scholars vault themselves out of the ivory tower and into the wider world. |
| The Chronicle Review By Christian Smith It is not just contributing to this country’s disastrous political condition; it is putting decent civilization at risk. |
| Lingua Franca Remember "bushlips," the winning entry in the first Word of the Year contest? We didn't think so. "Politically correct," a distant also-ran, had more staying power. Allan Metcalf has the tally. |
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