The Weekly Briefing: Professors’ Growing Risk: Harassment for Things They Never Really Said

[THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] #subscribelink [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Subscribe to The Chronicle today to get access to premium content and more.]( Weekly Briefing Monday, June 26, 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sign up for this newsletter]( This Week’s Highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- [Professors’ Growing Risk: Harassment for Things They Never Really Said]( By Peter Schmidt Faculty members are facing not just online backlash but also threats of violence as a result of how conservative media characterize their views. [What Would the Repeal of Higher Ed’s Foundational Law Mean for Colleges?]( [premium] By Adam Harris Betsy DeVos has suggested a wholesale rethinking of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and a key senator has supported such a move in the past. A repeal would face steep odds but also present an opportunity. [In the Time of Trump, Colleges Start to ‘Make Title IX Our Own’]( [premium] By Sarah Brown After the president’s election, speculation abounded that colleges might scale back their efforts to combat sexual violence. Instead, many Title IX coordinators are trying to chart a new path forward. [Colleges Face More Pressure on Student Outcomes, but Success Isn’t Always Easy to Measure]( [premium] By Eric Kelderman Federal data don’t paint a pretty picture of some two-year colleges. Are they really failing? The Chronicle Review --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can Feminist Scholarship Stop Sexism?]( By Becca Rothfeld Sexism is rampant in academe. If only theorizing would provide a remedy. Commentary --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who Wins When a College Presidency Fails?]( [premium] By Judith A. Wilde and James H. Finkelstein Search firms do, if it means more business for them. And the presidents themselves can, via lucrative termination clauses in their contracts. But colleges have much to lose. Advice --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pressing Our Advantage]( By Rob Jenkins How should community colleges make the most of their current popularity? People --------------------------------------------------------------- [Appointments, Resignations, Deaths]( Compiled by Anais Strickland Oberlin College named its first African-American leader, and a former U.S. senator was appointed Arcadia University's interim president. [Selected New Books on Higher Education]( [premium] Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub Topics include the admissions struggles of an urban university in a high-rise and advice on the process of doing academic writing. Blogs --------------------------------------------------------------- ProfHacker [Confronting Your Book Collection]( Anastasia Salter discusses the challenges of academic spring cleaning in a world of physical media. Lingua Franca [Worst Sentence Ever Seen in Academic Prose]( Geoff Pullum attempts to parse an impossibly clumsy sentence written by a 19th-century philologist. Don't tell him people knew how to write back then. Vitae — for Your Academic Life --------------------------------------------------------------- [You’re ‘Not Ready’ for a Promotion? Take It Anyway]( What are the best ways to prepare yourself to jump when an opportunity comes along? [The Importance of Being Present]( How often as faculty members are we “in absentia” — sometimes literally but also metaphorically? [The Art of Peer Pressure]( Hello, prospective grad student. Come in under the shadow of this red rock. [On Not Writing a Book Right Now]( Why I won’t be asking you about your next big project. [View the Latest Jobs in Higher Education]( Tools & Resources --------------------------------------------------------------- [On Hiring and Diversity This Week]( Gender bias isn’t just for women; the perils of being a female professor; partisan prejudice is rising. [Read 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=d93f3bddad664346ba5e9a2615635c84&elq=0958377369cc415fb90c2c31f6ba917b&elqaid=14523&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6119) [Subscribe Today]( Get the insight you need for success in academe. [Stop receiving this newsletter]( Copyright © 2017 The Chronicle of Higher Education