Academe Today Thursday, December 15, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News | Admissions & Student Aid By Eric Hoover and Sara Lipka How many campuses met their goals for enrollment and tuition revenue? Check out the fourth annual Chronicle survey of small colleges and midsize public universities. |
| Science Policy By Goldie Blumenstyk Two professors who are involved in a campaign to download huge amounts of federal environmental data explain the rationale for their efforts. |
| The Chronicle Interview By Evan R. Goldstein Rage over racial, gender, and sexual identity has no sense of proportion and creates a damaging spectacle, says Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University. |
| Technology By Ben Myers and Erica Lusk How 50 years of the information age transformed college forever. |
In Brief
Academic Newsmakers | The people who made a mark on higher education — for better or worse. |
| By Lawrence Biemiller Karran Harper Royal and Richard J. Cellini pushed a college to reckon with its slaveholding past. |
| By Dan Berrett Charla S. Long leads a movement to ensure quality in competency-based education. |
Views | Commentary By Robert Ubell Learning-analytics software can help in judging the effectiveness of online-course techniques. |
| The Chronicle Review By Margaret Ellen Newell The Americas were built on the backs of not just black slaves but Indian slaves as well. |
| Lingua Franca Has the verb transform undergone a transformation when Bill Germano wasn't looking? |
| Paid for and Created by the University of Western Australia
Stopping Shark Attacks Before They Start
University scientists study how a product called Shark Shield can keep sharks away from busy beaches. |
Advice | First Person By Karen M. Markin Federal grant proposals are public information, so why do scientists get cranky when you seek a copy? |
| Vitae By David Gooblar You don’t expect to sit down and write a journal article in one go. Why would creating a course be any different? |
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