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In the States

With an Ambitious Merger Proposal, Wisconsin System Seeks to Chart Its Own Course for Change premium

By Eric Kelderman

Plenty of states are facing similar challenges, but none have proposed a restructuring plan on the scale that Wisconsin is considering.

Academic Freedom

Anxieties Over a Donor’s Role in a Faculty Search Boil Over at Case Western premium

By Liam Adams

Faculty members protested the role of members of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland on the search committee. Then the dean fired back.

Faculty

A Professor Is Placed on Leave After an Internet Furor and Threats. What Happens to the Students? premium

By Chris Quintana

Drexel University removed George Ciccariello-Maher from the classroom after he made controversial remarks. His students say they’re frustrated by the decision.

Teaching

How Useful Is Creativity?

Two new studies paint an intriguing picture about the payoff of arts training.


Academic Fraud at UNC: Awaiting the Penalty

Athletics

Essential Reading on the Chapel Hill Scandal

An academic-fraud scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been a black mark on the elite public institution for years. On Friday the slow-burning scandal is likely to enter a new chapter, when the National Collegiate Athletic Association is expected to announce its penalties.  

Views

The Chronicle Review

What Allan Bloom Got Right premium

By Todd Gitlin

Thirty years after The Closing of the American Mind, universities are in worse shape — and more in need of its lessons than ever.

The Chronicle Review

Academe’s Prestige Problem

By Maximillian Alvarez

Professors and aspiring professors are complicit in perpetuating a rigged system.

Lingua Franca

The Language of Enslavement

Lucy Ferriss considers whether modern terminology is “presentist” or the language of abolition.


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