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Monday, March 5, 2018


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Sexual Harassment

More Women Come Forward to Report Sexual Harassment by Harvard Professor

By Tom Bartlett and Nell Gluckman

After The Chronicle reported on 10 women's complaints, eight more have described incidents. Jorge Domínguez, a professor of government, has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation.

Faculty

She Left Harvard. He Got to Stay.

By Tom Bartlett and Nell Gluckman

Did the university’s handling of one professor’s sexual-harassment complaint keep other women from coming forward for decades?

Faculty

Can Colleges Act More Quickly to Punish Professors Who Harass? premium

By Sarah Brown

A newly completed federal investigation of the University of California at Berkeley suggests that institutions should speed up the faculty disciplinary process — but that’s easier said than done.

Honor

Why Professors at One University Want It to Revoke Trump’s Honorary Degree

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz

If a student were repeatedly to make racist, sexist, or offensive public statements, the student would be punished, say faculty members at Lehigh University.

Teaching

New Fellowship Seeks to Help Tenure-Track Faculty Members Elevate Teaching

By Beckie Supiano

The program, which will provide $40,000 each to five professors, is unusual in both its generosity and its focus.

Campus Violence

2 People Are Shot and Killed in Central Michigan U. Residence Hall

By Andy Thomason

A shooting shut down the campus on Friday and set off a manhunt that ended on Saturday, when police said they arrested a student suspected of shooting his parents.


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The Chronicle Review

The End of Literary Studies? premium

By Steven G. Kellman

The field can bend only so far before it breaks.

Lingua Franca

Aggressions, Macro and Micro

You can be an aggressor even if you see yourself as a victim of aggression, Allan Metcalf learns.


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