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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

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Campus Protests

In a Time of Tension, Universities Craft New Free-Speech Policies premium

By Arielle Martinez

After a year of highly publicized protests against racism on campuses, colleges must decide this summer what the balance between free speech and public order will look like in the coming academic year.

Election 2016

What’s Next for College Students Who Backed Bernie

By Peter Schmidt

With Sen. Bernie Sanders expected to bow out of the presidential race on Tuesday, campus activists who supported him are divided on Hillary Clinton and remain focused on broad political change.

Campus Safety

As Police Responded to the Orlando Shooting, Some Students Were Along for the Ride premium

By Beckie Supiano

A handful of exchange students happened to be shadowing officers who reacted to last month’s massacre. They weren’t at the scene, but they heard it play out in real time. Here, their program’s U.S. director describes what they witnessed.

Virtual Invaders

College Campuses Are Being Overrun by Pokémon Go

By Gabriel Sandoval

A new game spinning off the ’90s kids’ card-game phenomenon has students exploring their campuses through new eyes — their smartphones. College officials are trying to keep up.


Views

The Chronicle Review

In Praise of Speculative History premium

By Frank Palmeri

New conjectural works share a project: to broaden the scope of historical understanding beyond the thin span of written records.

Lingua Franca

Adviser Advisory

Allan Metcalf explains why journalists (and their stylebooks) prefer the more-modest spelling, adviser.

Advice

First Person

Why Most Academics Will Always Be Bad Writers

By Noah Berlatsky

No one should be surprised if much scholarly writing continues to be mediocre and confused.

Vitae

There’s No Such Thing as Asynchronous Teaching

By Nicole Matos

To be effective as an online instructor, you have to be present in the present.

Job Opportunities

Chair of Engineering Department, Wake Forest University
North Carolina, United States

Associate Vice President for Development, Arkansas Tech University
Arkansas, United States

Director of the Campus Scholarship Program, Oregon State University
Oregon, United States

Assistant Professor Epidemiology and/or Public Health, Texas Tech University
Texas, United States

Process Technology Instructor, Community College of Beaver County
Pennsylvania, United States

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