Academe Today: Free Speech or Threat? An Anti-Gay Pamphlet Roils a Public University

Brief faculty-student meetings foster persistence; how colleges thwart cyberattacks; scheme to sway student election has happened before; and more. [Academe Today] Was this newsletter forwarded to you? [Please sign up to receive your own copy](. You’ll support our journalism and ensure that you continue to receive our emails. In the Classroom [Free Speech or Threat? An Anti-Gay Pamphlet Roils a Public University]( By Alexander C. Kafka When a marginalized group sensed danger, it demanded action. Administrators said the law limited their options. (PREMIUM) ADVERTISEMENT [advertisement]( Teaching [To Improve Persistence, This College Asks Professors to Have a 15-Minute Meeting With Each Student]( By Beckie Supiano At Oakton Community College, professors play a key role in keeping students enrolled. (PREMIUM) [Get the Teaching Newsletter]( Sign up to receive the Teaching newsletter, a weekly roundup about teaching and learning. Students [2 Trustees Allegedly Schemed to Sway a Student Election. It’s Been Done Before.]( [Image]( Travis Long, The News & Observer via AP By Emma Dill The incident is the latest in a series of attempts to influence student-government elections in recent years. (PREMIUM) Technology [Why Colleges Are Ripe Targets for Cyberattacks — and How They Can Protect Themselves]( By Bennett Leckrone Campuses, with their treasure-trove of data, are often overmatched by hackers. But education and broader responsibility can help bolster security. (PREMIUM) People [Unequal Spaces: How College Is Portrayed in Film]( By Peter Monaghan Public conceptions of the purpose of college have been shaped for the worse by the university-cinema-industrial complex, says the author of a new book. (PREMIUM) Paid for and Created by EVERFI [Colleges Seek New Ways to Address the Mental-Health Crisis and Boost Student Success]( “Mental Well-Being for Students,” an online course co-developed by JED and EVERFI, seeks to reduce the stigma and uncertainty surrounding mental health. Subscribe Today The Chronicle’s award-winning journalism challenges conventional wisdom, holds academic leaders accountable, and empowers you to do your job better — and it’s your support that makes our work possible. [Subscribe Today]( Views The Chronicle Review [The Jerks of Academe]( By Eric Schwitzgebel Who knows? You might be one yourself. (PREMIUM) ADVERTISEMENT [advertisement]( Paid for and Created by Chapman University [Changing Math for Good]( Designed to address inequality in the classroom, Chapman graduate students have the opportunity to learn how to teach mathematics in school classrooms, changing classroom environments to build on each student’s personal strengths. Featured in the Store [The Creativity Challenge]( This Chronicle report examines how colleges can help students develop creative skills that will help them in their academic careers and beyond. Designed for administrators and faculty members alike, it serves as a primer on why creativity is important, how students can develop it, and what higher education might look like if faculty members were to encourage creativity in every discipline and in every course. Job Opportunities [Research Associate Dean, UNT College of Health & Public Service]( University of North Texas College of Health & Public Service [Director - Break Through Tech Chicago]( University of Illinois @ Chicago [President]( University of Wisconsin System [Assistant Professor of Practice - Russian]( University of Nebraska-Lincoln [Search the Chronicle's jobs database](. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sign up]( for other newsletters, [stop receiving]( this email, or [view]( our privacy policy. © 2020 [The Chronicle of Higher Education]( 1255 23rd Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 [The Chronicle of Higher Education](