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Thursday, January 25, 2018


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Leadership & Governance

Michigan State President Resigns After Torrent of Anger Over Nassar

By Andy Thomason

Michigan State University’s president, Lou Anna K. Simon, submitted her resignation on Wednesday night.

Students

How Enrollment Challenges Can Spur Change premium

By Scott Carlson

In The Chronicle’s fifth survey of enrollment and tuition revenue, private institutions especially reported trouble meeting their goals.

Faculty Pay

Why Don’t Professors Make More Money? The Flexibility They Enjoy, a Study Argues

By Chris Quintana

But another scholar contends that it’s a simple matter of the public’s undervaluing of higher ed and viewing faculty lives as replete with leisure.

Faculty Productivity

UT-Austin Professors Join Campaign Against Faculty-Productivity Company premium

By Paul Basken

The Faculty Council passed a resolution urging the University of Texas’ flagship to make no use of the company, Academic Analytics, especially for promotion, tenure, and related decisions.

Finance

Endowment Returns Rebound After a Dismal 2016, but the Long-Term Outlook Is Cloudy

By Julian Wyllie

Endowments returned an average of 12.2 percent in the 2017 fiscal year, according to an annual survey. That’s a big step up from the previous year, when they dropped by nearly 2 percent.

Data

College and University Endowments, 2007-17 premium

Explore year-by-year endowment data for nearly 1,000 colleges from 2007 through 2017.

Research

How College May Actually Limit Students’ Exposure to Different Religions

By Bianca Quilantan

It’s a commonly accepted narrative that students are exposed to diverse religious perspectives for the first time while in college. A new study says that the opposite may be true.


Views


On Course

Reinventing the Survey Course

By James M. Lang

When it comes to putting innovation into practice, a new book argues, not all classes are created equal.

Advice

How to Fix Your Broken Grants Website

By Robert M. Kahn

Too many of these campus sites feature a catalog of bad practices and outdated information.

Lingua Franca

The Voice of Chicago

Allan Metcalf vicariously enjoys the accents and bustle of his native town — through the traffic reports of a millennial reporter.


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Job Opportunities


Assistant, Associate or Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage
Alaska, United States

Multiple Positions in Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Massachusetts, United States

Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University
Michigan, United States

Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, The Ohio State University
Ohio, United States

President, Menlo College
California, United States

COLLEGE PRESIDENT, Evergreen Valley College
California, United States

Full -Time Tenure-Track Faculty 2018 , Moraine Valley Community College
Illinois, United States

Multiple Positions, Cabrillo College
California, United States

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Roosevelt University
Illinois, United States

Director of Institutional Research, St. Paul's School
New Hampshire, United States

Tools & Resources


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