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Want to Enhance Humanities Career Outcomes? Engage the Faculty

The job of preparing students for the workplace can’t be left to career services offices alone. Professors are key, Emily J. Levine and Nicole Hall argue.

Rejecting Academe

As science and engineering Ph.D. students progress through their programs, many lose interest in academic careers, report finds. Study's authors say findings suggest changes are needed in Ph.D. training.

Return of the College Scorecard

The Department of Education rolls out updated information on its college transparency tool, including a new comparison feature.

Professor Wins Back Email Rights

Professor used historical imagery of a strike being put down violently in criticizing Colorado State’s move to lay off employees. University then blocked him from using his university email account.
Opinion

Making Diversity Happen

Boston College and UC Riverside share how they quickly hired more faculty members from underrepresented minority groups, without relying on hard numerical targets or costly initiatives.

Turkish Academics, Still Fearful in Exile

In Germany, they fear online harassment and the watchful eyes of those who support the Turkish government.

Justice Department Will Back Suit on ‘Free Speech’ Zone

Attorney General Sessions blasts colleges on issues of free expression.
Opinion

Freud's Furniture

Nathan Kravis’s On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch From Plato to Freud examines why that piece of furniture ever entered the analytic tradition and how its efficacy and centrality have now come under scrutiny, writes Scott McLemee.