Academe Today

Administration

One University Asks: How Do You Promote Free Speech Without Alienating Students?

After a conservative speaker faced off with protesters at DePaul University last year, the campus’s leaders have struggled to find the right response.

Special Reports

‘Heat Maps’ Give Michigan State a New View of Campus Climate

Visualizations of survey responses show the university where its students feel they belong and where they don’t.

Research

A Challenge for Mental-Health Experts: Should They Weigh In on Trump?

Psychiatrists have long abided by the "Goldwater rule," which bars them from offering professional opinions on public figures they have not examined in person. This year’s Republican nominee has some specialists wavering.

The Ticker

Brigham Young Will Grant Disciplinary Amnesty to Sexual-Assault Victims

Among other changes in its policies, the university will stop investigating whether students who report being sexually assaulted have violated the Honor Code.

The Ticker

Harvard's Dining-Hall Workers 'Achieved Every Goal' in Strike

Under an agreement, full-timers will get $35,000 a year, and the university will pay for additional health-care costs.

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Commentary

The Next Step in Diversifying the Faculty

It's time to look at diversity within subfields. If all of a department's minority faculty members share the same specialty, is the department truly diverse?

Special Reports

For Real Academic Disruption, Try Empathy

What if, in the next wave of innovation in online learning, colleges tried to provide what students really needed?

Special Reports

If Emotion Aids Learning, Does It Work Online?

Research shows that powerful emotions like awe contribute to lasting knowledge. Two psychologists ask: Can those feelings be evoked from a distance?

Lingua Franca

Just What the Politicians Need: 50,000 More Words of Slang

It's new, it's free, it's online: Allan Metcalf finds a gold mine of colorful vocabulary in Green's Dictionary of Slang Online.

First Person

Why I Curse in Class

In encouraging students to find their own voice, I have to use mine, and it includes a lot of words you can’t say on TV.

Vitae

They’ve Got Too Many Choices

Who, really, is served by the proliferation of narrowly specialized courses in the community-college curriculum?