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Opinion | Getting some clarity on two controversial AAUP statements. https://chroni.cl/485Dmj2
The AAUP Talks to Me!
Plus: The catastrophic decline of funding for international studies.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Opinion | Getting some clarity on two controversial AAUP statements. https://chroni.cl/485Dmj2
A guest columnist in this week's issue of The Edge says professors should remember three main principles: 1. Forgetting is part of learning, 2. learning is not linear, and 3. the brain learns in context. https://chroni.cl/4pCyGY2
Why Biology, Not Technology, Holds the Key to Learning
Improving education depends on understanding how the brain matures and processes information.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A guest columnist in this week's issue of The Edge says professors should remember three main principles: 1. Forgetting is part of learning, 2. learning is not linear, and 3. the brain learns in context. https://chroni.cl/4pCyGY2
At what would have been Charlie Kirk’s last stop on his “American Comeback Tour” at UC Berkeley, student protestors violently clashed with event attendees. There are now two different investigations into the university's reaction to the protest. https://chroni.cl/48kTsEv
A UC-Berkeley Protest of a Turning Point USA Event Has Now Prompted 2 Trump Investigations
The newest review, led by the Education Department’s Office of Federal Student Aid, will examine whether Berkeley violated the Clery Act, the federal campus-safety law.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
At what would have been Charlie Kirk’s last stop on his “American Comeback Tour” at UC Berkeley, student protestors violently clashed with event attendees. There are now two different investigations into the university's reaction to the protest. https://chroni.cl/48kTsEv
Vahid Abedini, an assistant professor of Iranian studies, was arrested by ICE on Saturday while traveling to a conference in Washington, D.C. On Monday night, he was released after what the agency called “standard questioning.” https://chroni.cl/4rnXWTs
A Professor Was Released After 3 Days in ICE Detention. His Colleagues Fear a ‘New Normal.’
Vahid Abedini, an Iranian scholar who began teaching at the University of Oklahoma in June, was arrested en route to an academic conference.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Vahid Abedini, an assistant professor of Iranian studies, was arrested by ICE on Saturday while traveling to a conference in Washington, D.C. On Monday night, he was released after what the agency called “standard questioning.” https://chroni.cl/4rnXWTs
"There's enough indoctrination going on at universities already. We should eliminate it, not mimic it from the other side," says Robert P. George. https://chroni.cl/3LTZjcn
Robert P. George and the Great Campus Vibe Shift
As progressive orthodoxy weakens, academe’s most influential conservative warns of a growing illiberalism on the right.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"There's enough indoctrination going on at universities already. We should eliminate it, not mimic it from the other side," says Robert P. George. https://chroni.cl/3LTZjcn
About 25 percent of faculty members have used AI to save time in creating more engaging in-class activities or generating quizzes and other assessments. Yet talking about AI use is taboo in some quarters. https://chroni.cl/4rjLxQp
Why Professors Are Using AI in Course Design
Some believe in the technology’s promises; others are simply desperate for help.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
About 25 percent of faculty members have used AI to save time in creating more engaging in-class activities or generating quizzes and other assessments. Yet talking about AI use is taboo in some quarters. https://chroni.cl/4rjLxQp
In Advice | A long-time adjunct offers advice on how to manage the uncertainties of the part-time faculty job market and find institutions that pay fairly. https://chroni.cl/44r1Pgr
Advice | How to Thrive as an Adjunct Professor
Initially disillusioned by part-time teaching, an instructor found ways to forge a successful career.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In Advice | A long-time adjunct offers advice on how to manage the uncertainties of the part-time faculty job market and find institutions that pay fairly. https://chroni.cl/44r1Pgr
Opinion | Len Gutkin talks to the AAUP about recent intense disputes over their policy. https://chroni.cl/4rjwJBl
Academic Freedom’s Fierce Internal Fracas
The AAUP’s approach is alienating some supporters. Three leaders explain their thinking.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Opinion | Len Gutkin talks to the AAUP about recent intense disputes over their policy. https://chroni.cl/4rjwJBl
Centers for “civic discourse” and the study of “leadership” or “democracy” are one of academe's latest and most popular trends. Leaders at some of these centers say student interest is catching up to external forces. https://chroni.cl/4pzUP9m
Schools of Civic Thought Are on the Rise. Are Students Interested?
New, sometimes controversial, centers have been pushed as a way to emphasize civic and classical education. So far, students aren’t flocking to their courses.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Centers for “civic discourse” and the study of “leadership” or “democracy” are one of academe's latest and most popular trends. Leaders at some of these centers say student interest is catching up to external forces. https://chroni.cl/4pzUP9m
University of Maryland-Eastern Shore president Heidi Anderson is seeking $1M in damages after a former faculty member publicly claimed she plagiarized her dissertation. The ex-professor says she faced discrimination as a white woman at the HBCU. https://chroni.cl/3M16nDZ
A White Ex-Professor Alleged Racial Discrimination at an HBCU. Then Things Got Messier.
At the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, a former faculty member is sparring with the institution’s president over plagiarism and defamation claims.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
University of Maryland-Eastern Shore president Heidi Anderson is seeking $1M in damages after a former faculty member publicly claimed she plagiarized her dissertation. The ex-professor says she faced discrimination as a white woman at the HBCU. https://chroni.cl/3M16nDZ
Opinion | An emphasis on teaching and the business of publishing may help save struggling university presses. https://chroni.cl/4pxj344
Opinion | Can We Save the Small University Press?
Closures and cutbacks loom, but there’s still time for innovation.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Opinion | An emphasis on teaching and the business of publishing may help save struggling university presses. https://chroni.cl/4pxj344
In Advice | Six tips for chairs of large departments on how to cope with the meeting-heavy schedule that goes hand in hand with supervising a large faculty and staff. https://chroni.cl/4iiR6dB
Advice | How to Chair a Large Department
It’s crucial for heads of big departments to learn how to manage a meeting-heavy schedule.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In Advice | Six tips for chairs of large departments on how to cope with the meeting-heavy schedule that goes hand in hand with supervising a large faculty and staff. https://chroni.cl/4iiR6dB
Portland State laid off 17 faculty members last June. An arbitrator says it must rehire the 10 who challenged the layoffs. https://chroni.cl/4rgAMOz
A University Gets Dinged for Failing to Involve Faculty in Budget-Cut Talks
An arbitrator says Portland State must reinstate 10 faculty members who were laid off.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Portland State laid off 17 faculty members last June. An arbitrator says it must rehire the 10 who challenged the layoffs. https://chroni.cl/4rgAMOz
Of the various controversies Larry Summers has been involved in over the years, it’s his connection with Jeffrey Epstein that may end up bringing his career to a close. https://chroni.cl/3XfdFXa
Is This the End for Larry Summers at Harvard?
Revelations about the former university president’s long entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein, the sexual predator, could finally sink the economist who seemed to have nine lives.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Of the various controversies Larry Summers has been involved in over the years, it’s his connection with Jeffrey Epstein that may end up bringing his career to a close. https://chroni.cl/3XfdFXa
One of the Harvard report’s most compelling findings is that students almost universally speak about grades in terms of how much effort they put in. If they spend a lot of time studying and do all of the work asked of them, they believe, they should get an A. https://chroni.cl/4iiaoA3
Grading Is Broken
A growing number of professors say A’s have lost their meaning. They’re divided on the right solution.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
One of the Harvard report’s most compelling findings is that students almost universally speak about grades in terms of how much effort they put in. If they spend a lot of time studying and do all of the work asked of them, they believe, they should get an A. https://chroni.cl/4iiaoA3
What can an instructor do when students aren’t doing the work? Here’s how one instructor got her class back. https://chroni.cl/4p3n2p1
The Human Work of Teaching and Learning
One professor’s story of bringing a class back from the brink in 2019 is only more resonant now.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
What can an instructor do when students aren’t doing the work? Here’s how one instructor got her class back. https://chroni.cl/4p3n2p1
Opinion | "We are in a crisis of status, we humanists, and in the large scope of the public, we can, the thinking goes, be restored." https://chroni.cl/4p0fVhg
Opinion | Writing for ‘the Public’ Won’t Save Us
We created new venues to affirm our value. Now they’re at risk of collapsing too.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Opinion | "We are in a crisis of status, we humanists, and in the large scope of the public, we can, the thinking goes, be restored." https://chroni.cl/4p0fVhg
The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of its members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands. https://chroni.cl/48bvwmK
Why a Musicology Society’s Members Are in Revolt
The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of its members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands. https://chroni.cl/48bvwmK
Looming large are questions about whether a UVa's new leader will be expected to support — or denounce — diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. https://chroni.cl/4o8FThe
As UVa Reels From Jim Ryan’s Tell-All, Political Turmoil Hampers the Search to Replace Him
Looming large are questions about whether a new leader will be expected to support — or denounce — diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Looming large are questions about whether a UVa's new leader will be expected to support — or denounce — diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. https://chroni.cl/4o8FThe
Is the university of the future a series of disciplinary groupings or area studies? Maybe undergraduate programs and research initiatives should be designed to tackle problems, and not imagined to be permanent. https://chroni.cl/4rebAbE
A Planned Shake-Up at Montclair State U. Raises a Question: What Is a Department for?
The administration says its plan to reorganize 15 departments into four schools will foster interdisciplinarity and make academic fields more relevant. Faculty members aren’t so sure.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Is the university of the future a series of disciplinary groupings or area studies? Maybe undergraduate programs and research initiatives should be designed to tackle problems, and not imagined to be permanent. https://chroni.cl/4rebAbE
Opinion | Catch up on interviews with Jill Lepore and G. Gordon Gee. https://chroni.cl/3LRpK2c
Jill Lepore Considers Quitting. The Woke Right. Red-State Academic-Freedom Blues.
Plus: Virginia on the front lines.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Opinion | Catch up on interviews with Jill Lepore and G. Gordon Gee. https://chroni.cl/3LRpK2c
After declines in new international students for two years in a row, the post-Covid enrollment boom looks, in hindsight, like a bubble. https://chroni.cl/49Ni1ML
A Foreign-Enrollment Downturn Isn’t Coming. It’s Already Here.
Also, the State Department takes over Fulbright-Hays and other international-ed programs, and more from the “Open Doors” report.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
After declines in new international students for two years in a row, the post-Covid enrollment boom looks, in hindsight, like a bubble. https://chroni.cl/49Ni1ML
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville was told to hand over course materials and names of scholarship recipients from its Middle East studies department, raising concerns about political pressure and interference. https://chroni.cl/4ib24BR
A State Legislature Wants a University’s Middle East Studies Syllabi. Faculty Don’t Know Why.
The University of Arkansas flagship received a request from a legislative office last week for course materials and information about scholarships, emails show.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville was told to hand over course materials and names of scholarship recipients from its Middle East studies department, raising concerns about political pressure and interference. https://chroni.cl/4ib24BR
About three years after ChatGPT emerged, students are using artificial intelligence to help with outlining, brainstorming, and studying. In this week's episode of College Matters from The Chronicle, we examine how colleges can weight the promise of AI against its pitfalls. https://chroni.cl/47UcJO8
Using AI Without (Really) Cheating
There’s plenty of moral panic about college students using generative AI to write their essays, but many students say they are trying to use these tools in the right way.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
About three years after ChatGPT emerged, students are using artificial intelligence to help with outlining, brainstorming, and studying. In this week's episode of College Matters from The Chronicle, we examine how colleges can weight the promise of AI against its pitfalls. https://chroni.cl/47UcJO8
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars on what happens next. https://chroni.cl/44j7XHq
Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars on what happens next. https://chroni.cl/44j7XHq