Academe Today Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News | Election 2016 By Dan Berrett White support for Donald Trump plunged by 18 percentage points if voters had earned a college degree. Why? |
| The New Administration By Jack Stripling In a long Education Department career, James Manning has been known as a steady hand without partisan proclivities. |
| The Chronicle Interview By Alexander C. Kafka Anna Deavere Smith, master of documentary theater, talks about personal narrative, empathy, and colleges’ potential to reach vulnerable students and to disrupt cliques. |
| On Leadership By Ian Wilhelm Katherine Bergeron, president of Connecticut College, discusses how it revamped its curriculum to help students better connect their experiences in and out of the classroom and to help them develop a broad question to frame their education. |
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Views | Commentary By Judith A. Wilde and James H. Finkelstein Across higher education, executive searches are growing in number and cost. Colleges and their governing boards should exercise caution before signing on the dotted line. |
| The Chronicle Review By Ben Merriman Universities are caught between the urban/rural and liberal/conservative divides. Is there a way forward? |
| Lingua Franca Ben Yagoda tracks the president-elect's poor spelling, thin skin, self-aggrandizement, and occasional graciousness and subtlety. But he can't find any reaction to hateful harassment and threats since the election. |
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