Academe Today Monday, March 26, 2018 Sign up for this newsletter | Todayâs News | Athletics By Chris Quintana Why Chief Illiniwek, retired more than a decade ago, still inspires anger, pain, and pride in an Illinois college town. |
| Leadership & Governance By Jack Stripling A confidential letter from professors calls on trustees to force out Fred Walker, the president, who told a reporter he could never reason with faculty. |
| Labor & Work-Life Issues By Audrey Williams June The new policy will “improve excellence,” the board says, but some professors see it as a tool to get rid of tenured faculty members. |
| Legal By Eric Kelderman In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court said that public colleges must “protect students from foreseeable violence during curricular activities.” |
| Research By Paul Basken Foreign-policy experts suggest a computer-hacking indictment has more to do with international politics than a dire threat to American research institutions. |
| For-Profit Education By Adam Harris The Education Department under President Barack Obama “procedurally erred” in revoking the federal recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, a U.S. District Court judge ruled. |
Guns on Campus: From the Archives | Students By Eric Hoover A decade ago, Kristina Anderson was shot while in her French class at Virginia Tech. Now she’s reshaping, again and again, the meaning of that terrible day. |
| Research By Emma Pettit A discipline with little federal funding now has some momentum. But the researchers who study firearms violence and policy still face emotional and financial demands. |
| Faculty By Andy Thomason and Brian O'Leary Last year we asked readers to tell us about their fears of a mass shooting on campus. Their responses ranged from joy to fear to loathing. Read them all. |
Views | Commentary By Andrew Zimbalist Over its history, the NCAA has confused and obfuscated the meaning of amateurism more than any other organization. |
| Advice By Dennis M. Barden Instead of being a deal breaker, a mistake on a cover letter should be a chance to build trust on an executive search committee. |
| Lingua Franca Allan Metcalf wants to use first-year student â but keep freshman too. Itâs a matter of context. |
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