Students

Where the Journey to College Is No Fairy Tale

For promising students at one low-income high school, the road to college is marked by hope, frustration, and limited choices.

Research

For One Scholar, an Online Stoning Tests the Limits of Public Scholarship

Since writing an essay analyzing the history of ancient statues, and why they are now mostly white, a University of Iowa professor has received insults and threats.

Financial Aid

Will Michigan’s Free-Tuition Guarantee Change the Game for Low-Income Students?

Mark Schlissel, president of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, says the new plan will be a loud, clear message for the state’s needy students. But some critics say that might be empty advertising.

Faculty

A Divided AAUP Lifts Censure on U. of Illinois

Professors’ group does the same for Phillips Community College, but it rebukes Spalding University and the Community College of Aurora for firing dissenting faculty.

Government

Trump Will Continue DACA for Now, Though Immigrant Students Still Wonder About Its Future

The administration’s move to keep one Obama-era program while formally ending another left questions about whether those actions could disrupt families of undocumented immigrants.

Technology

Virtual Reality Can Teach Altruism, Empathy — and Why You Should Use Less Toilet Paper

Jeremy Bailenson, a professor at Stanford University and founding director of its Virtual Human Interaction Lab, says the technology, in the right circumstances, can be educationally transformative.

Chronicle Focus

In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are more than 25. Here are a couple of examples:

How to Help First-Generation Students Succeed

Students whose parents don’t have bachelor’s degrees face significant financial, cultural, and educational barriers. Yet they enroll in college in significant numbers. This 32-page collection looks at how professors and administrators can help them prevail.

Teaching Abroad

Some American academics broaden their job opportunities by choosing to work overseas. This 28-page collection describes how academics have adapted to expectations and political realities at posts in Europe, the Middle East, and South Korea.

The Chronicle Review

How to Avoid a Post-Scholar America

Academics can recapture the trust of the public — but only if they are willing to write for it.

Page Proof

Scholars Talk Writing: Michael C. Munger

“Journal reviewers can seem like angry trolls, blocking the bridge to publication.”

Lingua Franca

Among the Old New Words

The journal American Speech, looks back on 75 years of words coined each year. Allan Metcalf reflects on what the words tell us about our history.