The Weekly Briefing: In a Region With Few College Degrees, People Pin Their Hopes on Trump

[THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] #subscribelink [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Subscribe to The Chronicle today to get access to premium content and more.]( Weekly Briefing Tuesday, January 16, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sign up for this newsletter]( This Week’s Highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- [In a Region With Few College Degrees, People Pin Their Hopes on Trump]( By Sarah Brown Job losses in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors are piling up in the Missouri Bootheel. [U. of Rochester Report on Professor’s Alleged Harassment Gets Mixed Reviews]( [premium] By Katherine Mangan How can an investigation find inappropriate, unprofessional, and offensive behavior, and “gross lapses of judgment,” yet still conclude there were no violations of university policy? [The NCAA as Modern Jim Crow? A Sports Historian Explains Why She Drew the Parallel]( By Emma Kerr Victoria Jackson, a lecturer at Arizona State University, drew attention for her Los Angeles Times op-ed about how college athletics “contributes to the undervaluing of black lives.” [How One University Is Trying to ‘Create a Space for Listening’]( By Sarah Brown Widener University’s president talks about its “common ground” initiative to encourage productive conversations among people with opposing viewpoints. The Chronicle Review --------------------------------------------------------------- [Higher Education Is Drowning in BS]( By Christian Smith It is not just contributing to this country’s disastrous political condition; it is putting decent civilization at risk. Commentary --------------------------------------------------------------- [An Insider’s Take on Assessment: It May Be Worse Than You Thought]( By Erik Gilbert A recent journal report says that measuring learning outcomes is not working — and that this is no surprise to assessors. Advice --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Scholar, but Not a Professor]( By Michael R. Wing Leaving academe does not mean you have to give up your intellectual interests. People --------------------------------------------------------------- [Appointments, Resignations, Deaths]( Compiled by Brianna A. Tucker Elfred Anthony Pinkard will become president of Wilberforce University, and Brenda Fredette was named dean of the Eberly College of Science and Technology at California University of Pennsylvania. [Data: Flagship Institutions With the Highest Percentages of Older Undergraduates, Fall 2015]( [premium] The Chronicle List Five flagships had an undergraduate population that was more than a fifth age 25 and over. Blogs --------------------------------------------------------------- Lingua Franca [When Is a New Word New?]( It’s harder than ever nowadays to decide whether a coinage is really new, with internet resources so abundant, writes Allan Metcalf. ProfHacker [Write in Markdown on Your Mac With Macdown]( Ryan Cordell describes a free, lightweight application for writing in the Markdown convention with a live preview on Mac computers. [View the Latest Jobs in Higher Education]( Tools & Resources --------------------------------------------------------------- [Free Dossier Service]( Get organized with The Chronicle’s Vitae dossier service. Manage all of your professional documents in one convenient place — safely, securely, and at no cost. Applying for jobs online is simpler, saving you time and money. [Start your free dossier.]( [THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] 1255 Twenty-Third St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [Add us on Google+](chroniclehighereducation/posts?elqTrackId=1f2282b89e864d68bfd27439bd302272&elq=5d0972ea34cb40c985d063a900c85de5&elqaid=17459&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7641) [Subscribe Today]( Get the insight you need for success in academe. [Stop receiving this newsletter]( Copyright © 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education