The 2018 Vote

What the Midterm Elections Mean for Higher Ed

Betsy DeVos and the Education Department may soon face more oversight. Student voters turned out, but so did everyone else. Here are our notes from Election Day.

In the States

Scott Walker Is Out. Can a New Governor Save Higher Ed in the Badger State?

In Wisconsin and other states where Democrats won, don't expect to see a major shift in thinking about colleges.

The Chronicle Review

A Revered Work of Scholarship Was Never Published. Until Now.

The three-decade publication saga of a revered manuscript.

Re:Learning

Don’t Forget the Role of Humans in Those Tech-Driven ‘Student Success’ Efforts

“Behind every data point is a student,” says a student-affairs leader who has combined data analytics and case management on his campus.

Teaching

Professor Apologizes After Suggesting That Students Block Fox News on Families’ TVs

An assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University distributed a flier that urged students to reset the parental controls when their family members were “not looking.”

Faculty

Want to Keep Your Talented Professors? Sponsor Their Professional Development

When you hired them, you made a great investment. To keep them, help them hone their skills and manage their work-life balance so they don’t burn out.

Special Reports

Want More Students to Study Abroad? Get the Faculty Involved

Baldwin Wallace University’s decision to expand its study-abroad offerings has led to some rare faculty-development opportunities, as professors develop close ties with counterparts in Zambia.

Idea Lab: Faculty Diversity

Colleges face growing demands to hire more minority faculty members. But doing so requires revamping how search committees usually operate, confronting unconscious bias, and improving the Ph.D. pipeline. This collection examines how colleges are changing to bolster their faculty ranks with more people from underrepresented minority groups. Get your copy in the Chronicle store.

Advice

The Worst Writing Advice in the World

In Episode 2 of the “Are You Writing?” series: some much better advice to replace a popular productivity tip that doesn’t work for most people.

Lingua Franca

Is Donald Trump the Andrew Jackson of Our Time?

Both shocked their adversaries, Jackson by his lack of formal education, Trump by his indifference to cultivated talk. Allan Metcalf looks for lessons in that history on Election Day.

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