Academe Today Monday, October 17, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News | Teaching By Dan Berrett Thirteen states are using a common tool to evaluate how well their students write, calculate, and think. Can this effort paint an accurate portrait of academic quality? |
| Government By Beckie Supiano The presidential candidate caught many observers off guard by talking about a substantive higher-ed policy idea. Here’s some context to help make sense of his proposal. |
| The Chronicle Review By David Wescott Robin Hanson wants to do scholarship differently. Is there a place for him in academe? |
| Finance By Goldie Blumenstyk Among other priorities for the Lumina Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are competency-based education, improving quality assurance, and removing barriers to student progress. |
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Views | Commentary By Emily J. Levine Our quest for efficiency could sever a crucial connection to the past. |
| Lingua Franca Allan Metcalf wonders what email salutation will best replace the obsolete "dear" used for letters on paper. |
Advice | Vitae Also in our weekly roundup of the best conversations from The Chronicle's discussion forums: reference checks, over-prepping for lectures, and negative comments in tenure letters. |
| ProfHacker If the environmental impact of flying in 100 people for a conference makes you cringe a little, UCSB's Environmental Humanities Initiative has a proposal for a carbon-neutral conference model. |
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