Academe Today Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Sign up for this newsletter | Idea Lab: Colleges Solving Problems | Leadership & Governance By Kathryn Masterson If you want to avoid governance disasters, you need to be systematic about orienting trustees. |
| Commentary By David W. Miles A seasoned board member considers the ways his own orientation fell short. |
| Special Reports A collection of nearly 50 explorations of the problems that colleges face, and how they are solving them. The articles include news, analysis, data, advice, and opinion. |
Todayâs News | Campus Speech By Bianca Quilantan Hannibal Buress apparently violated his performance contract by mentioning child abuse in the Catholic Church. Should the university that hosted him have been surprised? |
| Leadership & Governance By Sarah Brown As the university’s interim president faces widespread criticism for his defiant comments in recent days, many are wondering if the institution’s communications strategy has gone off the rails. |
| Research By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz For David Carroll, a media scholar at Parsons School of Design, it’s personal. |
| Teaching By Emma Kerr The director of the National Women’s Studies Association describes progress in mobilizing students to close the gender gap in the online resource. |
Exclusively for Chronicle Readers | A new Chronicle report explores how demographic changes and economic pressures are pushing colleges to expand their programs for adult students. To get a taste of the 56-page publication, download our free executive summary. It highlights how the deep-dive report can better prepare your campus for the nontraditional student. |
Views | Commentary By David DeSteno To get students to choose schoolwork over immediate pleasures, stop focusing on willpower. |
| Advice By Helene Meyers Who and what is served when nontenure-track faculty members do academic service? |
| Lingua Franca Allan Metcalf encourages everyone to celebrate the birthday of Americaâs greatest word on March 23 by using it often. |
Job Opportunities | Associate Dean for Faculty Success, College of Humanities and the Arts, San Jose State University
California, United States
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Human-Centred Robotics and Machine Intelligence, University of Waterloo
Canada
Residence Hall Director, State University of New York College at Buffalo
New York, United States
Vice President for University Relations and Development, California State University, Long Beach
California, United States
Assistant Professor of Practice Position in Management, Syracuse University
New York, United States
Programme Director, MFA in Art and Humanities, University of Dundee
United Kingdom
Residence Hall Director, State University of New York College at Buffalo
New York, United States
Head of School, Kentucky Country Day School
Kentucky, United States
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