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Between 2011 and 2022 alone, Black land-grant universities lost nearly $200 million in resources because states declined to provide them with matching funds while fully funding predominantly white universities, a new report notes.

Black Land-Grant Universities Are Being Starved While White Ones Flourish, Report Finds

A policy loophole has allowed states to deprive 19 Black institutions of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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A new CDC study suggests that in-person campus operations brought soaring rates of Covid-19 transmission to their communities.

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Professors need to prepare themselves to discuss concepts like structural racism with their students this fall.

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Telling students and professors to work remotely, while demanding that all academic staff members come in, sends a clear message about whose health matters.

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"Students who come into my office crying, they’re not crying about their papers, or their grades. … They’re coming in talking about microaggressions, about things that happen on campus, things people are saying to them."

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Walter Hussman, the UNC journalism school's biggest donor, says he asked the dean to say publicly that he hadn't pressured her about hiring Nikole Hannah-Jones. She refused.

‘What the Hell Happened?’ Inside the Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure Case

How a star journalist’s tenure bid entered higher ed’s caldron of politics, race, and money.

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4 years

1/ The #CoronavirusOutbreak has prompted some colleges to cancel in-person classes. Follow this thread for a list of those institutions.

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Omar Wasow's findings suggest that nonviolent protest is more politically effective than violent protest. Critics view the research as “not helpful,” and even dangerous.

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6 years

A new database of female historians trying to make it harder to include only white men on syllabi, panels, or in articles.

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To a student, the person teaching the first course they take in a discipline is the discipline. “If the physics professor is cool, then physics is cool.”

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The University of Chicago will no longer require domestic applicants to submit standardized test scores. It becomes the most selective university yet to drop the ACT/SAT.

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After we spent more than a week trying to verify his existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Drew Cloud was fake.

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Academic and poet Elizabeth Alexander will be the first woman to lead the Mellon Foundation.

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5 years

You can’t count on your publications and awards to take care of you. And more advice from someone who has a lot of experience thinking about academic careers: #CHEarchive

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Twitter encourages academics to be sycophantic, hyperbolic, and cruel, argues Gordon Fraser:

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6 years

Yet another example of why we should all be lecturing less and using active-learning strategies more in the college classroom.

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Met with a recalcitrant board, people at Chapel Hill felt powerless. But Nikole Hannah-Jones decided she was not.

How Nikole Hannah-Jones Flipped the Script on Chapel Hill

Offered tenure, only to walk away, the journalist reclaimed her story.

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4 years

When students see you on screen this fall, they need to see someone professorial, someone who has created a classroom space that feels organized and free of distractions.

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5 years

We need more, not fewer, ways to listen for the voices of students reflecting on education. We need more, not fewer, ways to include students in conversations about the future of teaching and learning in college.

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Some students think "office hours" means the time during which the prof shouldn’t be disturbed. Cultural gaps like that don't just make first-generation students feel like outsiders — they get in the way of their success.

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When the world feels like it’s on fire, people on Twitter ask Kevin Kruse to weigh in. He calls these pleas the “@-signal” — like the Bat Signal, but less cool.

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6 years

There’s a growing body of research that reveals poverty as a kind of mental tax. The cognitive burden crowds out room for all the things that successful students are supposed to be doing.

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6 years

Over the past few months, we asked people to take on the theme of women and power: What is it really like to be a woman in the academy?

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Many faculty don't report the chronic illnesses they live with out of fear of professional discrimination. Thus, do universities know how many of their workers are immunocompromised?

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Your students need you to be that teacher: the one who goes the extra step, the one who takes care of herself so she can continue to care for others. Our profession needs your kindness.

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There is an alternative explanation to why today's college students are demonstrating limited learning: They are the most overburdened and undersupported in American history.

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4 years

“As a black female faculty member, I know that it is essential that the professional train not stop at ‘associate’ for Ph.D.s who are women and/or members of nonwhite groups.”

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7 years

Students booed and turned their backs on Betsy DeVos as she gave a commencement speech at Bethune-Cookman:

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Some students think "office hours" means the time during which the professor shouldn’t be disturbed. Cultural gaps like that don't just make first-generation students feel like outsiders — they get in the way of their success.

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6 years

"We can’t, as women of color, network and mentor our way out of this problem entirely. There have to be structural changes that occur on top of that for any of this to change."

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6 years

To a student, the person teaching the first course they take in a discipline is the discipline. “If the physics professor is cool, then physics is cool.”

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6 years

In 1941, W.H. Auden taught a class that required 6,000 pages of reading. Who would dare revive that syllabus? The University of Oklahoma. And students are lining up to enroll.

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7 years

Campus socialist groups are on the rise:

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6 years

Much of academic work, is invisible to the public, and it’s a common misperception that professors have plenty of leisure time.

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6 years

For assistant professors, it’s very difficult to resist the pressures to overwork since that is often the only path to tenure.

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4 years

For the first time, entire student bodies have been compelled to take all of their classes online. Jonathan Zimmerman says that now is a perfect opportunity to measure how students learn in that medium compared to face-to-face instruction.

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6 years

Yet another example of why we should all be lecturing less and using active-learning strategies more in the college classroom.

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Early in the semester, @zeynep shows her students how classroom-management systems track their activity: “They usually have no idea that their professors can see every click.”

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6 years

Students lead complex lives. When professors acknowledge that, it can change the way students interact with them.

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5 years

"Too many early career scholars seem to be investing their time and energy writing a lot for the wrong kinds of publications. By "wrong," I mean venues that won’t lead to tenure.'

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6 years

Faculty members of color, Rahuldeep Gill says, are “hypervisible when they needed us to be in glossy brochures and invisible when it came to our needs.”

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"After seeing such clear data that my students were learning almost nothing from my beautifully clear lectures, I became much more comfortable trying other forms of teaching — I obviously could not do any worse!"

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6 years

For many academics, moving up the ladder requires the ruination of their health, hobbies, and friendships. That needs to change.

Feeling Anxious? You’re Not the Only One

Students and faculty members should push back against a culture that encourages them to never slow down.

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5 years

The University of California system is calling it quits with Elsevier after months of contract negotiations:

U. of California System Cancels Elsevier Subscriptions, Calling Move a Win for Open Access

The announcement followed months of contract negotiations over the cost of the publisher’s journals. “I fully support our faculty, staff, and students in breaking down paywalls that hinder the...

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8 years

AAUP says the election of Trump may represent "the greatest threat to academic freedom since the McCarthy period.”

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6 years

Students at Michigan State University will protest on Friday to demand the resignation of Lou Anna K. Simon, the university’s president:

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"Colleges should share students' first-year grades with the high schools that they came from."

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The price of textbooks increased by 90 percent from 1998 to 2016. It’s a significant barrier to access: Nearly 65 percent of students said they’ve passed on buying a textbook because of its high price.

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6 years

Academics are silent workaholics — so free to work whenever we want that many of us end up working all the time.

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You just need to care about your students, invest a little time in preparation, and do something if you notice that something is off. As the human face of your institution, you are in the best position to connect students to the help they need.

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Decades of research tell us that it’s far more preferable for students to learn out of intrinsic motivation rather than be pushed by extrinsic factors like grades.

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Morehouse College's commencement speaker surprised graduates with a stunning pledge to pay off their student loans. The donation to the 400-person class has an estimated value of $40 million:

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5 years

Gone are the days when advisers simply helped students register for classes and pick a major. The job is becoming increasingly professionalized. #CHEarchive

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Instead of finding one mentor to lean on, cultivate a team, says Jessica Calarco, author of "A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum."

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Required statements are bad practice. Avoid them.

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"One of the key lessons I’ve learned in 28 years of teaching: Show students you are invested in them, and they will feel a lot more invested in the work they do for your course."

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5 years

Undergraduates notice when you don’t make an effort to remember them — and they work harder when you do.

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6 years

Some people dislike ‘Latinx’ as a new word. But at some point in human history there were no words. Now there are words. Someone invented them. This process continues.

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"The goal of effective aid isn’t just to cover the bare minimum college costs, but to give low-income students the freedom to be students."

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The best anti-recidivism program is education. Prisoners who had access to education are 43 percent less likely to return to prison within three years than those without such access.

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6 years

“We do not have a college-completion crisis in this country. We have a freshman- and sophomore-year crisis.”

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4 years

Does being on Zoom all day wear you out? Students feel the same, cautions an expert who worries that professors may over-rely on the tool as they teach online because of the coronavirus.

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4 years

For the first time, entire student bodies have been compelled to take all of their classes online. Jonathan Zimmerman says that now is a perfect opportunity to measure how students learn in that medium compared to face-to-face instruction.

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7 years

1/ We’ve compiled a list of Confederate monuments on college campuses and when they were dedicated:

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5 years

Though the alt-right says it despises so-called left-leaning academe, its followers gravitate toward the few academics who prop up their racist and xenophobic views, a professor says.

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4 years

Telling students and professors to work remotely, while demanding that all academic staff members come in, sends a clear message about whose health matters.

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6 years

"Universities must tell the truth... When they fail to do that, they become just another corrupt institution that should be challenged in every dimension of its enterprise."

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6 years

The professor thought that students who failed the first exam might blame her when she followed up with a personal note. What happened instead was a nice surprise — and a reminder of what can happen when instructors don't wait for students to seek help.

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8 months

"Eminent domain is just a white man’s way of saying, ‘We’re going to take your land.’" A look into how Virginia’s legal and political climate made it easy for local officials to raze and redevelop Black neighborhoods for college campuses:

The Long History of Universities Displacing Black People

The expansion of higher education in Virginia uprooted hundreds of Black families.

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5 years

A Duke administrator who told grad students to speak English while on campus will step down immediately as director of graduate studies:

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6 years

"Librarians are some of the best nonclassroom teachers. They tend to be incredibly smart, incredibly innovative and thoughtful in processing humanities data, and incredibly eager to share their knowledge."

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“The crucial thing is that students are the most open to new stuff when they walk into college.” #CHEarchive

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The strongest teachers get asked to write the most reference letters and receive little credit and no reward for their effort.

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The productivity syndrome affects not only those on the tenure track and the tenured. It is also part of the system that exploits contingent faculty members.

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Why does a biology prof give his students a chance to write a kids book about parasitology or invertebrates? “You really don’t understand something until you can teach it to someone else,” he says.

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Traditional teaching methods do not serve all students well. Inclusive teaching can be an equalizer:

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To succeed in college, first-generation students need help navigating unwritten rules. Georgetown’s course “Mastering the Hidden Curriculum” tells them how:

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Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad-school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe?

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4 years

"Our goal right now should not be to make a challenging course. There are already enough challenges out there. We should strive to make a compassionate course."

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“Brave black souls who venture into mostly white and privileged educational spaces have long known a simple truth: No one escapes without scars.”

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"Over the years, I’ve found that when students know you care, they will try harder and be more open to constructive criticism."

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“I’m very tired. I’ve been dealing with this since I started.”

After Black Student Is Kept Out of Class Discussion, NYU School Acknowledges ‘Institutional Racism’

Shahem Mclaurin said he had already spoken with an administrator about the racism he’d faced, with no action taken.

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First-generation students sometimes stumble in navigating the invisible rules and unspoken expectations often called colleges’ “hidden curriculum.” Simplifying language can help.

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Think taking notes by hand is better than using a laptop? Not so fast, researchers say.

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“The most effective person to tell students how to study for a particular course is the instructor. They can easily put little pointers in their classroom about how students should be studying – that could be revolutionary for first-gen college students.”

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A judge ordered the owner of a neo-Nazi website and another man to pay a former student-body president at American University $725,000 for instigating a campaign of racist harassment against her:

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Teaching is too idiosyncratic for best practices, Stommel says. He’s interested instead in best philosophies.

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"Librarians are some of the best nonclassroom teachers. They tend to be incredibly smart, incredibly innovative and thoughtful in processing humanities data, and incredibly eager to share their knowledge."

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"Education is not a commodity, and making it more accessible doesn’t make it less valuable. Our country thrives when more people get the chance to learn and contribute." #CHEarchive

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"Our goal right now should not be to make a challenging course. There are already enough challenges out there. We should strive to make a compassionate course," a professor writes of teaching in the time of coronavirus.

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4 years

Online teaching advocates are unanimous in cautioning that these options for salvaging the semester are not to be confused with the long-term creation of high-quality online courses.

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“If 20 percent of the evaluation for tenure were based on how well you communicate with the public, that’s a game changer.”

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"Librarians are some of the best nonclassroom teachers. They tend to be incredibly smart, incredibly innovative and thoughtful in processing humanities data, and incredibly eager to share their knowledge."

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"No matter how much faculty members cling to 'the good old days,' there is no going back. We might as well embrace the possibility of creating a new kind of academic."

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Students of color often seek mentorship from faculty of color. At institutions where faculty ranks are low, “that work can pile up on fewer shoulders.”

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Why tone matters: Do you really think talking down to undergraduates makes them want to work hard in your class?

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Track hundreds of federal sex-assault investigations with our revamped Title IX tool:

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What is needed is a much more comprehensive approach. Ph.D.s with nonacademic careers should have a seat at the table as universities and departments rethink graduate education.

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Academics and experts agree that narrow preparation is insufficient for today’s graduates. That’s why the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine want colleges to integrate STEM with the arts and humanities.

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What is the purpose of higher education: To prepare for a job, or to cultivate an active lifelong curiosity?

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