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Thursday, February 8, 2018


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Legal

Security Costs Loom Larger in Campus Free-Speech Fights. A Lawsuit Shows Why.

By Katherine Mangan

The University of Washington’s College Republicans are contesting a decision to charge them $17,000 for a campus rally featuring a controversial right-wing speaker. Such battles are spreading to campuses nationwide.

Government

DeVos’s Education Dept. Relaxed Rules for For-Profits Under Accreditor That Closed

By Adam Harris

A letter obtained by The Chronicle suggests that the department offered “flexibility” to colleges that were left without an accreditor after the Obama administration stripped the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools of its recognition.

The Chronicle Interview

What’s Wrong With Writing Centers premium

By Rose Jacobs

They are set up to help privileged students, and that’s not who comes, or needs them, argues Temple University’s Lori Salem, a maverick writing-center director.

Foundations

A Poet Takes the Helm of the Mellon Foundation

By Adam Harris

Elizabeth Alexander, an academic and poet, is the new leader of one of the most prominent donors to the arts and humanities in higher education.


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Views


The Chronicle Review

Shamelessness and Hypocrisy at the MLA premium

By Sharon O’Dair

These days the rhetoric of the meeting and of universities is aimed at getting Ph.D. students out of the professoriate.

Pedagogy Unbound

Still Learning the Lessons of the ’60s

By David Gooblar

How the stubborn inertia of educational institutions killed off a successful teaching strategy.

Lingua Franca

Utter Nonsense in the News

Geoff Pullum is horrified by how willing journalists are to represent any kind of signaling or signifying as “language.”


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Job Opportunities


Hariri Endowed Chair in Research, American University of Beirut
Lebanon

Faculty Positions at the Rafic Hariri School of Nursing, American University of Beirut
Lebanon

Assistant or Associate Professor of Music, Ronald J. Crocker Chair in Orchestra, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Nebraska, United States

Full-time Faculty Positions for 2018 (Seoul, Korea), Sogang University
Korea, Republic of

Directors, College Counselors, Finance, Sales (multiple positions/locations), Collegewise
Alabama, United States

Chancellor, Methodist College
Illinois, United States

Multiple Faculty Positions, The Affiliated High School of Peking University
China

Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Tennessee, United States

Tenured Professor in Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Massachusetts, United States

Graphic Design - TT, Kansas City Art Institute
Missouri, United States

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