Academe Today Monday, November 27, 2017 Sign up for this newsletter | Todayâs News | Student Feedback By Beckie Supiano Some classroom observations and other assessments at the University of California at Merced can be especially valuable because of who’s performing them: undergraduates. |
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| Tenure By Audrey Williams June The concept appears, explicitly or implicitly, in many faculty manuals. But it’s often vague and unevenly applied, and it can stifle dissent. |
| Faculty By Katherine Mangan John Casey, who won a National Book Award in 1989, is said to have favored male students, made sexual comments to female students, and subjected them to unwanted touching. |
| Faculty By Nell Gluckman, Brock Read, and Katherine Mangan Revelations about the film producer’s apparent pattern of sexual misconduct are just a couple of months old, but the reverberations have been deeply felt across academe. Here are the latest updates, from Wednesday, on cases at Brown and Michigan State Universities. |
| The Chronicle Interview By Scott Carlson Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University, says colleges must change how they educate for a work force dominated by automation. |
| Thanksgiving By Sam Hoisington The birds have been admitted to Virginia Tech’s farm, where their predecessors are minor celebrities. |
Views | First Person By Kevin Gannon In the end-of-the-semester crush, our students don’t do their best work in all-night cram sessions, and neither do we. |
| Lingua Franca William Germano finds the Icelandic language, our closest living relative to Old Norse, to be mysterious and beautiful. |
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Missouri, United States
Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Lubbock Christian University
Texas, United States
Assistant Professor, Political Science, Aga Khan University
United Kingdom
Chancellor, South Orange County Community College District
California, United States
President, Northland College
Wisconsin, United States
Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, Idaho State University
Idaho, United States
Associate Dean, College of Business, Bryant University
Rhode Island, United States
Dean of Education, St. Mary's University
Canada
System Provost, SUNY System Administration
New York, United States
Dean of Continuing Education and Workforce Development, Hudson County Community College
New Jersey, United States
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