Community Colleges: A College on the Front Lines of America's Divides Works to Bridge Them

[THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] #subscribelink [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Subscribe to The Chronicle today to get access to premium content and more.]( Community Colleges Tuesday, September 11, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sign up for this newsletter]( This Week’s Highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- [This College Is on the Front Lines of America’s Divides. Here’s How It’s Working to Bridge Them.]( [premium] By Alexander C. Kafka Diversity-hiring strategies, cultural-competence training, curricular changes, and a busy student-heritage calendar are among the efforts at MiraCosta College, in Southern California. But these practices are controversial and difficult, with setbacks and resistance at every step. [How Colleges Are ‘Setting Up a Generation for Failure’]( [premium] By Sarah Brown Greg Lukianoff, president of FIRE, which advocates free speech on campuses, talks about his new book, The Coddling of the American Mind. [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. [What a New Professor Learned After His First Class]( One lesson: preparing for class takes longer than you think. [In Sociologists’ #MeToo Moment, Does Their Response Heed the Lessons of Social Science?]( [premium] By Marc Parry One prominent sexual-assault researcher says clear, evidence-based policies are needed but have yet to be created. [There Is No Campus Speech Crisis]( [premium] By Steve Kolowich Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law, thinks the arguments about free speech at colleges could use a few more reasonable people. [These Parents Want to Change the Frats Where Their Sons Died]( [premium] By Sarah Brown A partnership, announced on Monday, brings together families and the governing organizations of the nation’s fraternities and sororities. The coalition follows months of meetings among them. [College of the Ozarks Drops Nike for Using Colin Kaepernick in Ad Campaign]( By Emma Pettit It’s the latest effort by the small Missouri college to express its opposition to athletes’ kneeling during the national anthem. Views --------------------------------------------------------------- [Don’t Dismiss the Value of Free-College Programs. They Do Help Low-Income Students.]( 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. [Will Students Actually Believe They Can Do This Assignment?]( By David Gooblar The more that students believe they can succeed in your course, the more motivated they will be to try. [At Commencement, How Much Celebration Is Too Much?]( By Walter Kimbrough To avoid disappointment and conflict later, now is the time for colleges to develop guidelines and boundaries for students at commencement. [Fascism and the University]( [premium] By Jason Stanley Higher education has historically been a bulwark against authoritarianism — or its pawn. What’ll it be this time? [View the Latest Jobs in Higher Education]( Job Opportunities --------------------------------------------------------------- [FSNE Nutrition Educator and Project Leader --Worcester/Somerset Counties or Harford County]( UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EXTENSION - FSNE Maryland, United States [Assistant Professor of Social Work ~Behavioral Health]( California State University, Sacramento California, 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=6093abe449104afa843f6ff162f25dbc&elq=cbe3e54a3efb4ca08fc356c7fcd68e34&elqaid=20457&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=9620) [Subscribe Today]( Get the insight you need for success in academe. [Stop receiving this newsletter]( Copyright © 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education