Academe Today

This University’s ‘Accelerator’ Tests New Ideas for Teaching — and It’s Working

Ohio University supplies resources to put proposals for transformation to the test.

How Purdue Professors Are Building More Active and Engaged Classrooms

A campuswide program to encourage new forms of teaching is helping reshape the undergraduate experience.

6 Programs to Change Classroom Culture

What drives change in the classroom? This special report looks at how six institutions encourage innovation in teaching.

Admissions

Harvard Admissions Officials Are Grilled on How They Use Race in Admissions

In testimony on Wednesday, the halfway point of the three-week trial, three officials testified that they do consider race, but it is never a negative factor for applicants.

Admissions

Harvard’s Racial Diversity Is on Trial. But What Do We Know About Its Economic Diversity?

Data showing how the university’s admissions process favors wealthy students is stark. But Harvard is by no means an outlier among its peer institutions.

Collegiality

Why 2 Tenured Faculty Members Were Dismissed After a Departmental Dispute

They were accused of bullying other professors in 2017, but an AAUP inquiry finds they were probably dismissed because they criticized the administration.

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Advice

Try to Lower the Stakes of the Job-Interview Dinner

When academic hiring committees take job candidates out to eat, cultural anxiety is often on the table, too.

Lingua Franca

Why Linguistics Matters

Geoff Pullum was asked to write a book about his field for a lay audience and publisher. Two favorable referee reports left him feeling alone and deprived of counsel, so he resorted to the judgment of that harshest but most biased of referees, the one inside his head.