Academe Today Friday, April 20, 2018 Sign up for this newsletter | Todayâs News | Academic Freedom By Katherine Mangan Randa Jarrar’s inflammatory tweets about Barbara Bush may be protected speech, but when she invoked her university and its president, some say she crossed a line. |
| Global By Nell Gluckman Mohammed bin Salman, the next in line to the throne, stopped at the two universities last month. Some students and faculty members are still alarmed by the occasion’s lack of transparency. |
| Teaching Professors often lament that students’ concerns about grades can overshadow their capacity to learn from an exam. What if there was a better way? |
| Athletics and Enrollment By Emma Kerr A new data analysis finds that the ramifications of athletic scandals are typically wide-reaching, affecting both the quantity and quality of applications and enrollment. |
| Students By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz Kent Syverud, the university’s chancellor, called the video of students using racial and anti-Semitic slurs “extremely troubling and disturbing.” |
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Views | The Digital Campus By Chris Gilliard The invisible hand helps itself to student labor and data. |
| The Digital Campus By Eric E. Fredericksen The job is no longer on the sidelines. It’s key to staffing, development, and training. |
| The Graduate Adviser By Leonard Cassuto A new organization is helping researchers explain their work and why it matters. |
| Lingua Franca Allan Metcalf has a dream vision almost like Caedmonâs, except the inspiration is feline. |
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