Community Colleges: How Colleges Can Help STEM Students Think More Broadly

[THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] #subscribelink [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Subscribe to The Chronicle today to get access to premium content and more.]( Community Colleges Tuesday, May 15, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sign up for this newsletter]( This Week’s Highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Colleges Can Help STEM Students Think More Broadly]( [premium] By Beckie Supiano A major new report encourages colleges to integrate STEM with the arts and humanities to improve student outcomes. Here are some things educators may want to keep in mind. [This Is What Georgia Tech Thinks College Will Look Like in 2040]( [premium] By Beth McMurtrie It includes new credentials to recognize continuous learning, a subscription fee model, and worldwide networks of advisers for life. [Why Internet Scholars Are Calling Out Facebook for Restricting Access to Its Data]( By Nell Gluckman The social-media giant recently announced restrictions on who can mine information it collects for research. Some academics say that’s a problem. [Does the Faculty Office Have a Future?]( [premium] By Lawrence Biemiller Administrators say it’s the “third rail” of facilities questions: With faculty members spending less of their time in their campus offices, can colleges afford to keep building them? [How Your Office Could Inspire Student Collaboration]( To foster faculty-student interactions, some campuses are designing better spaces for them to meet. [Help Your Students Succeed by Building Spaces Where They Can Talk With Professors]( [premium] By Jeffrey J. Selingo The traditional faculty office, tucked away in a different building, doesn’t lend itself to casual conversation after class. But there are spaces that do. [How Colleges Manage to Afford Big Projects in Lean Times]( [premium] By Lee Gardner Public-private partnerships can help colleges remake their campuses in years, rather than decades. The bigger the deal, the more complexities it brings. [Got a Video-Gaming Team? What About an Arena for It?]( [premium] By Goldie Blumenstyk More than 70 institutions now offer scholarships for eSports, and they’re developing new facilities for their competitors and fans. [Among the Hottest Job Markets on Campus: Police Officer]( By Chris Quintana Colleges are hiring police officers at a faster rate than nearly any other campus jobs — at a time of heightened concern about how they operate. [Consumer Watchdog Signals a Lower Priority for Investigating Student-Loan Abuses]( By Andy Thomason The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday said it would fold its student-loan-investigation arm into a part of the federal agency that focuses on consumer information. Views --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Case for Student-to-Student Mentoring in Bench Science]( By David S. Rogawski and Juliano Ndoj The benefits of graduate students’ mentoring undergraduates in the lab flow in both directions. [How to Make Old Campus Spaces Feel New Again]( [premium] By Fawn Behrens-Smith With proper evaluation and planning, new space doesn’t have to mean new square footage. [The Welcoming Labyrinth: What We Gain and Lose as Libraries Change]( By Robert Zaretsky The replacement of books with common study areas is a step in our evolving relationship with the printed word. But it’s still sad. [View the Latest Jobs in Higher Education]( Job Opportunities --------------------------------------------------------------- [Music Faculty - Theory and Composition]( Harford Community College Maryland, United States [Instructor, Mathematics]( Laramie County Community College Wyoming, United States [Tenure Track Physics/Astronomy Instructor]( Los Angeles City College California, United States [Technical Services/Reference Librarian]( Joliet Junior College Illinois, United States [Director, Nursing Education]( Kellogg Community College Michigan, United States Tools & Resources --------------------------------------------------------------- [Need support navigating your career in higher ed?]( View our popular webinars: [Negotiating an Academic Job Offer]( [Acing the Academic Interview]( [And more!]( [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=9376e0cd520540c39047b0f1b771fc50&elq=b8598e7704a54d2a83e7348c9e28fd2a&elqaid=19074&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8632) [Subscribe Today]( Get the insight you need for success in academe. [Stop receiving this newsletter]( Copyright © 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education