Afternoon Update: Don't Dismiss Free-College Programs. They Help Needy Students. (Opinion)

[THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] #subscribelink [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Subscribe to The Chronicle today to get access to premium content and more.]( Afternoon Update Friday, September 7, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sign up for this newsletter]( Today’s News --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentary [Don’t Dismiss the Value of Free-College Programs. They Do Help Low-Income Students.]( [premium] By Sara Goldrick-Rab and Michelle Miller-Adams Two new reports ignore the many ways that state plans make a college education more affordable — and more realistic — for financially needy families. Advice [Should We Still Cite the Scholarship of Serial Harassers and Sexists?]( By Nikki Usher The process of building on academic work burnishes the reputations of people whose scholarship may be good but whose characters are awful. What’s Popular on Chronicle.com --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Big Lie]( By Jack Stripling and Megan Zahneis A professor schemed to get a raise and win his department’s respect. Instead he wrecked his career. [Avital Ronell Blowback Has Entered College Classrooms. Here’s How Scholars Are Responding.]( By Lindsay Ellis Professors are grappling with how to teach works by an academic star found responsible for harassment — and by her broad network of supporters. [I Worked With Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser.]( By Andrea Long Chu When genuine criticism is undertaken at the risk of ostracism, marginalization, retribution — this is a culture where abuses like hers grow. [Do Chief Diversity Officers Help Diversify a University’s Faculty? This Study Found No Evidence]( By Claire Hansen Researchers detected no real increase in faculty diversity at universities that had hired diversity officials. But, as one author of the study explains, it’s complicated. [View the Latest Jobs in Higher Education]( [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=9caa235e5dc444be94208da2a08048f1&elq=1b46818a170642819013b70f477c655d&elqaid=20413&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9593) [Subscribe Today]( Get the insight you need for success in academe. [Stop receiving this newsletter]( Copyright © 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education