Academe Today

New Travel Ban Still Sows Chaos and Confusion

While the new executive order provides some reassurance to students and scholars already on campus that they can travel freely, it offers little guidance to those seeking to enroll this coming fall.

6 Reasons Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ of Travelers May Already Be the Norm

Students and scholars affected by the president’s new executive order say they feel as if they already face heightened screening in order to come to the United States. Here’s why.

Trump and Immigration

Coverage of how the president's executive order barring all refugees and citizens of six Muslim countries from entering the United States affects higher education.

Campus Clash

What Could Middlebury Have Done to Avoid a Free-Speech Fracas?

Middlebury College was careful to listen to students before hosting a controversial speaker, having meetings and soliciting input. But the event with Charles A. Murray still ended in an ugly fashion.

The Ticker

U.S. Gives Colleges More Time for Appeals Under Gainful-Employment Rule

An Education Department official said that the action was being taken to allow the agency to “further review” the regulation and how it was being carried out.

Jiggery-Pokery

The Most Cringeworthy Monuments to Colleges’ Innovation Jargon

An assistant professor of English used Twitter to collect the baldest examples of biz-world lingo in higher education. Here are some of the best.

The Ticker

White Supremacists Target College Campuses With Unprecedented Effort

Colleges have seen more than 100 incidents of white-supremacist propaganda since September, says a report from the Anti-Defamation League.

The Chronicle Review

Why the Middle East Studies Association Must Remain ‘Non-Political’

The election of Donald Trump makes it even more important that the scholarly group and others like it stand on evidence and principle, not politics.

The Chronicle Review

Now, More Than Ever, Scholarly Groups Must Engage in the Political Arena

A petition that seeks to retain the Middle East Studies Association’s "non-political" description is years behind the curve.

Lingua Franca

X-ing Out Excellence

Lucy Ferriss writes almost anything else instead — Fabulous! Fascinating! Well argued! — because calling students' work excellent gives them no further room to improve.

First Person

Our Hallways Are Too Quiet

Technology and family-friendly policies gave us freedom, but has the cost been departmental life?

Vitae

Rethinking My Exams

For many academics, our tests are an area of teaching that remains unchanged and unexamined.