| Faculty By Clara Turnage The community and structure an instructor builds during the academic year can disappear each summer, when the bulk of his or her research is conducted. Many scholars struggle with the solitude. |
| Government By Adam Harris Policy groups and politicians expressed dismay over announcements from the Education Department and news reports about its plans. |
| Leadership & Governance By Peter Schmidt The university’s chief, Douglas D. Baker, resigned in response to an uproar over his circumvention of state bidding rules to pay top advisers handsomely. |
| Government By Katherine Mangan The president’s order called for more money and less oversight of apprenticeship programs. Some people questioned whether the quality of those programs might suffer. |
| The Ticker Catherine E. Lhamon, the departmentâs civil-rights chief under President Barack Obama, told ProPublica that the changes were âstunningâ and âdangerous.â |
| Vitae By Louise Seamster A writing group is automatically subversive — a parallel universe outside of the isolation of academic culture. |
| Lingua Franca The Caribbean gave a new perspective to dictionary research last week, reports Allan Metcalf. |
