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A Key (State) to Completion
California’s public colleges are partnering more with foundations to achieve completion goals, and while resistance among faculty members remains, the previously rocky relationship appears to have improved.
Elsevier Expands Footprint in Scholarly Workflow
Elsevier’s acquisition of Bepress’s institutional repository platform is heralded as a smart move for the publisher, but not all of Bepress’s customers are impressed.
‘Dealing With Dysfunction’
New book tries to help readers cope with that faculty colleague who never liked a new idea or offered to help.
Opinion
The President as Mentor for Tackling Hard Questions
The time is right for a more courageous approach to difficult conversations, writes Ronald A. Crutcher, who meets regularly with students to discuss controversial issues across lines of difference.
Twitter Blowback: Lost Job and Lost Money
Montclair State strips adjunct of courses amid controversy over tweet wishing someone would shoot Trump. Trinity of Connecticut details students and gifts lost amid furor over professor's hashtag.
DeVos Shifts Course Again on Loan Servicing
Education secretary plans to shake up student loan servicing again. The department remains committed to single website for student borrowers.
Litigation Ban Advances, and Controversy Escalates
Academic leaders decry “ideological hit” on Center for Civil Rights at UNC Chapel Hill.
Opinion
‘Digital Prospects’
Byung-Chul Han’s In the Swarm: Digital Prospects describes how our society is well down the road toward a dramatically different, digital world. Much harder to discern, writes Scott McLemee, is where, or if, Han sees an off-ramp.