Academe Today Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News Regional Publics By Lee Gardner Limited funding and a narrowing pool of prospective students leave the state’s regional public institutions facing a difficult future. | Data A table shows the "sticker prices" — published tuition and required fees — at more than 3,400 colleges and universities for the 2016-17 academic year. Click the institutions' names to see historical data back to 1998. |
Government By Eric Kelderman The GOP presidential nominee floated a plan that surprised policy experts. Some of them lamented the lateness and the lack of substance of his ideas. |
Race on Campus By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz A Northwestern U. graduate student invited other academics on Twitter to air examples of racism and microaggressions in higher education. Here’s what he says is driving him. |
In Brief Views The Chronicle Review By Lee Drutman It's time to stop pretending that there's such a thing as a rational voter. | Special Reports By Rick Staisloff Colleges too often plunge into innovative strategies without thinking about how much they will cost. |
Special Reports By Richard Culatta and Sandy Speicher This is how colleges — and their students — can benefit from the findings of user-experience teams. |
Lingua Franca In response to a text message, Anne Curzan ponders the future of a conjunctive adverb that appears most frequently in academic writing. |
Commentary By Jonathan Zimmerman The '60s radical called on universities to be a humanizing force, liberating us to think and act in new ways. That’s a tough sell in 2016. |
Advice Vitae By Karen Kelsky How can I boost my chances if I have everything else listed in the job ad except for X? |
Advice By Rob Jenkins A look at the average teaching load for faculty at two-year campuses. |
Job Opportunities Assistant Professors of Writing and Public Relations, University of Central Arkansas Arkansas, United States Multiple Faculty Positions, Arkansas State University - Campus Queretaro, Mexico Mexico Assistant Professor of Japanese, United States Air Force Academy Colorado, United States Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty (VPAA/DOF), Elmhurst College Illinois, United States Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. Lawrence University New York, United States Associate Vice Chancellor, MU Extension Missouri, United States Dean, College of Arts and Letters, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona, United States Multiple Positions at Teachers College, Columbia University, Teachers College, Columbia University New York, United States
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