Academe Today Thursday, October 27, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News | Administration By Beth McMurtrie After a conservative speaker faced off with protesters at DePaul University last year, the campus’s leaders have struggled to find the right response. |
| Special Reports By Sarah Brown Visualizations of survey responses show the university where its students feel they belong and where they don’t. |
| Research By Paul Basken Psychiatrists have long abided by the "Goldwater rule," which bars them from offering professional opinions on public figures they have not examined in person. This year’s Republican nominee has some specialists wavering. |
| The Ticker Among other changes in its policies, the university will stop investigating whether students who report being sexually assaulted have violated the Honor Code. |
| The Ticker Under an agreement, full-timers will get $35,000 a year, and the university will pay for additional health-care costs. |
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Views | Commentary By Rafael Walker It's time to look at diversity within subfields. If all of a department's minority faculty members share the same specialty, is the department truly diverse? |
| Special Reports By Harrison Keller What if, in the next wave of innovation in online learning, colleges tried to provide what students really needed? |
| Special Reports By Andy Tix and Myles Johnson Research shows that powerful emotions like awe contribute to lasting knowledge. Two psychologists ask: Can those feelings be evoked from a distance? |
| Lingua Franca It's new, it's free, it's online: Allan Metcalf finds a gold mine of colorful vocabulary in Green's Dictionary of Slang Online. |
Advice | First Person By Jordan Schneider In encouraging students to find their own voice, I have to use mine, and it includes a lot of words you can’t say on TV. |
| Vitae By Nicole Matos Who, really, is served by the proliferation of narrowly specialized courses in the community-college curriculum? |
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