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The NCAA today settled a concussion lawsuit today, promising significant reform. For context, below is a Chronicle video about the conflicting interests of coaches and their athletic trainers. Here's the full story that accompanied the video: http://chroni.cl/17BIpkf
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WATCH: Where has public #highered funding gone?
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A growing industry targets people struggling to repay student loans, charging steep fees to help them apply for free federal programs: http://chroni.cl/1o80RvH [Link Available 24 Hours]
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'Hi everybody! My name is James Lang and I'm a professor of English and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College. Last week I wrote a column for the Chronicle about small changes in teaching you can make during the first five minutes of class. Let's chat about that column, teaching techniques, and anything else in the comments below.'
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"I began to augment and embellish these letters with an account of all the opportunities and programs, discounts, and everything that was available to faculty when they retired," she says. "It was a drumbeat of messages saying we want you to stay engaged. This is not about sending you away."

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How to help faculty members view retirement as an opportunity, not a threat.
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Now, with the new rule on hold, colleges must decide whether to continue with their plans to comply or to postpone them.

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A federal judge’s injunction has forced institutions to either postpone pay increases and adjustments to hourly employment status or proceed as planned — even though the changes may be moot.
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"We need to recognize that gender inequality starts when a woman tries to have children, not only after she has them."

Why we need to talk more openly about pregnancy loss in academe.
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"There’s something deeply chilling about having sexual assault and alcohol-related deaths covered under a brand strategy. But that’s the reality of modern universities."

The reality of living in a college town is that sometimes we find ourselves fighting the women who are about to become victims.
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Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump’s Pick to head the Education Department, has no track record in higher education. But that’s hardly unusual over the post’s short history.
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"White people my age are not going to vote to educate Hispanic kids or black kids. All the great advances in education have come when there was a strong white majority."

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Why has state support for higher education dwindled as enrollments have grown more diverse?
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Tell students that majoring in these fields may well be a path to happiness, not penury.
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A founder of the alt-right believes motherhood is more important for women than careers, wants to see European-American student groups at colleges, and would deport the undocumented.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump has shown relatively little interest in academe, and his pick for education secretary has focused on charter schools. That leaves opportunities for some familiar players in Washington.
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Breaking news:

An active shooter was reported on the Columbus, Ohio campus on Monday morning.
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Aspiring leaders, and the boards of trustees that hire them, want to know, how can candidates prepare? And how can new leaders master the steep learning curve and navigate the decisions that can make or break their tenures?

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The college presidency is a demanding job that has grown more daunting in a time of strained budgets and fast-moving controversies. Aspiring leaders have a lot to learn.
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Hina Naveed, who came to the United States from Pakistan, says she’s troubled by the president-elect’s rhetoric. She and other undocumented students are rallying to save protections that could be rolled back.
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The election of Donald Trump has heightened conflicts on campuses, but it has also thrown into public view discord that many say was there all along.
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But to many professors, the idea of a watch list seemed newly chilling in a political climate in which some scholars have been the targets of racist and anti-Semitic abuse.

Many scholars aren’t sure whether to criticize the list or crack jokes about it. But some professors on the list say their work cuts to the essence of what it means to be an American.
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"If students consistently fail at something in my classroom, it’s not their fault. It’s mine."

Most faculty members are teaching writing exactly as we should.
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"I tell students on the first day of class that I’ll be talking a lot in the first few sessions, but as we move on, they’ll be talking more and more, and I’ll be talking less. What I try to do is make a self-sufficient community of people who are responsible to one another, who fall in love with one another."

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Anna Deavere Smith, master of documentary theater, talks about personal narrative, empathy, and colleges’ potential to reach vulnerable students and to disrupt cliques.
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