Academe Today Tuesday, November 29, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News | Administration By Scott Carlson Why has state support for higher education dwindled as enrollments have grown more diverse? |
| Government By Eric Kelderman Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump’s Pick to head the Education Department, has no track record in higher education. But that’s hardly unusual over the post’s short history. |
| Students By Shannon Najmabadi Many people agree that campus sexual assaults are severely underreported. So colleges are using a range of new methods to encourage more students to come forward. |
| The Ticker University officials say a campus police officer shot Abdul Artan, a student, after he drove into pedestrians and then emerged with a butcher knife and began stabbing people. |
| On Leadership By Dan Berrett Scott Pulsipher, the new president of Western Governors University, describes how the competency-based education provider builds relationships with students. |
Views | Commentary By Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Despite her lack of a higher-ed portfolio, Trump’s pick for education secretary combines a passion for education and impressive political skills. |
| The Chronicle Review By Alice Dreger The reality of living in a college town is that sometimes we find ourselves fighting the women who are about to become victims. |
| Lingua Franca Geoff Pullum finds that Arrival isn't the space-aliens movie he was expecting, and it isn't really about linguistic analysis. It's a moving story about something else entirely. (Caveat lector: Geoff makes no attempt to avoid spoiler plot revelations.) |
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