Academe Today Tuesday, December 19, 2017 Sign up for this newsletter | Todayâs News | News Leadership dramas. Controversies big and small. Failing colleges. And the game of bingo. Those are just a few of the themes and stories that The Chronicle’s individual subscribers read the most this year. |
| Publishing By Beth McMurtrie A survey finds that the share of professors who have adopted open-licensed textbooks has risen to 9 percent from 5 percent in just two years. |
| Teaching By Dan Berrett The small college’s decision makes it both an outlier and a model of recent trends in general education. |
| Research By Andy Thomason A Tufts University professor created a catalog of the recurring themes in the space saga’s universe. |
Idea Lab: Colleges Solving Problems | Students By Peter Monaghan New strategies prompt male students to question skewed notions of manhood. |
| Students By Peter Monaghan A masculinity-studies approach can get those messages across to male students behaving badly. |
| Commentary By Michael Kimmel Maybe it’s time for the unsung heroes of everyday life to be our models — the ones who do what’s right simply because it’s the right thing to do. |
| Special Reports A collection of nearly 50 explorations of the problems colleges face, and how they are solving them. The articles include news, analysis, data, advice, and opinion. |
Exclusively for Subscribers | The Daily Briefing tells individual subscribers everything they need to know about higher ed. Here’s a sample. |
Views | Moving Up By Allison M. Vaillancourt What’s the best way to respond when your dream job in administration quickly turns into a nightmare? |
| Lingua Franca Allan Metcalf instructs linguists on how they can sound like Utahns. |
Job Opportunities | Multiple Positions 2018, The University of Scranton
Pennsylvania, United States
VICE PRESIDENT FOR ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT , Bowie State University
Maryland, United States
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, University of Cincinnati
Ohio, United States
INSTRUCTOR OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, University of Cincinnati
Ohio, United States
Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute, Texas A&M University
Texas, United States
Director, Texas A&M Institute of Data Science, Texas A&M University
Texas, United States
Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, Southern Crescent Technical College
Georgia, United States
Professor of Journalism and Director , University of Southern California
California, United States
Multiple Positions, Columbia Basin College
Washington, United States
Directors of Development, Loyola University Chicago, Loyola University Chicago
Illinois, United States
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