Academe Today Thursday, October 20, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News | Labor By Katherine Knott and Peter Schmidt Years of close calls during collective bargaining led the 14-campus system to develop contingency plans in the event of a work stoppage. The test now is how well those plans will work. |
| Students By Beckie Supiano Michigan State University is rethinking how it communicates with students, especially those who are freshmen or the first in their families to go to college. Sending hundreds of emails isn’t the best way — but what is? |
| Government By Steve Kolowich Probably not. But there are ways a president could mitigate the federal government’s role in shaping how colleges define and respond to the sort of criticism that Mr. Trump and many conservatives lament. |
| Teaching By Jeffrey R. Young Sarah Short, who has taught some 44,000 students over a half-century at Syracuse University, wants to see more classroom interaction. |
In Brief
Views | Commentary By Randy Boyagoda The leader of a Catholic college within a public university says religion will never disappear from human experience, any more than will rejection and critiques of religion. |
| Lingua Franca Did you know there's a real Water Gate? Lucy Ferriss catalogs -gates since that most infamous one, suggesting we retire the suffix. |
| The Chronicle Review By Kevin J.H. Dettmar Until the 1950s, it was incontrovertibly black. A new book brings together artists and songs that our implicitly segregationist narratives of the music have encouraged us to keep apart. |
Advice | First Person By Ann E. Michael Why we still need to keep books in our campus libraries. |
| Vitae By David Gooblar An assignment is not just an instrument to measure learning, but also a way to engender it. |
| ProfHacker Keeping track of continuing projects in an ecosystem with a myriad of digital and physical calendars, to-do lists, and file systems can be a challenge. Anastasia Salter shares her simple approach. |
Job Opportunities | Tepper School of Business Faculty Positions in Finance, Carnegie Mellon University
Pennsylvania, United States
Tenure-Track Engineering Faculty, California State University, Chico
California, United States
Assistant Professor or Instructor of Chemistry, University of South Carolina Lancaster
South Carolina, United States
Assistant Professor, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
California, United States
Associate Professor of Terrestrial Remote Sensing, South Dakota State University
South Dakota, United States
Director of Academic Nursing Development, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
District of Columbia, United States
Assistant Chair of Music Business/Management, Berklee College of Music
Massachusetts, United States
Assistant/Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Associate/Full Professor in Student Affairs in Higher Education, Colorado State University
Colorado, United States
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