Academe Today Friday, October 28, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News Teaching By Peter Schmidt The Republican nominee’s boundary-defying presidential campaign has political-science professors debating how much to express their views in the classroom. | The Ticker Among other things, the new defense-to-repayment rules make it possible for loan forgiveness to be granted to groups of borrowers, rather than only to individuals one by one. |
Students By Sarah Brown To encourage students to report cases of sexual violence, the Mormon university will grant them amnesty from Honor Code discipline. |
Students By Nadia Dreid Asking students to reconsider Halloween costumes that perpetuate harmful stereotypes has placed some colleges under attack. |
In Brief Views Commentary By Robert Zaretsky Rousseau and Thucydides can shed light on our era, a historian argues. | The Chronicle Review By Ian Ward We have obligations as citizens. What are our obligations as neighbors? |
Special Reports By Sarita Brown and Deborah Santiago The group Excelencia in Education recognizes programs that benefit Latino students. Those practices could help others, too. |
Lingua Franca First drafts often have an awkward rhythm or ambiguous meaning, or both, says Ben Yagoda. The first step in addressing the issue is looking at the sequence of the sentence's elements. |
Advice Vitae By Andrew Thaler How to tell if a fellowship is a genuine career-development opportunity or a revolving door to nowhere. |
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Job Opportunities Multiple Positions at Assistant Professor Level and Engineering Educators, Wichita State University Kansas, United States Assistant Professor of Economics, St. Lawrence University New York, United States Visiting Assistant Professor in Film and Representation Studies, St. Lawrence University New York, United States Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling, St. Thomas University Florida, United States Associate Director of Center for Language Education (CLE), Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China China Faculty Positions in Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, School of Informatics and Computing Indiana, United States Tenure Track Faculty Openings, El Paso Community College Texas, United States Director, Merritt Writing Program and Associate Dean, Office of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Merced California, United States
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