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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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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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President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Betsy DeVos, a charter-school advocate, to be his secretary of education.

Ms. DeVos is also a former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party.
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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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"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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White support for Donald Trump plunged by 18 percentage points if voters had earned a college degree. Why?

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White support for Donald Trump plunged by 18 percentage points if voters had earned a college degree. Why?
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In today's Daily Briefing: a hint on Trump's education plan, colleges take stands, and what are you thankful for?

We've started a new email, for subscribers only, that briefs readers on everything they need to know in higher ed to start the day. Here's a sample.
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"For many white voters in the other America, though, stuck in dead-end jobs and low-rent neighborhoods, those comments make them want to say, "But what about me?"

The educated elite — professors, artists, journalists, "expert" commentators — can judge the emotions behind that question as stupid and unfair, even brand them as racist or homophobic. But those feelings of exclusion are very real and not unfounded. As the saying goes, and as last week’s depressing election result clearly demonstrates, we have ignored them at our peril."

America left poorly educated whites behind. Their votes were misguided but understandable.
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Student groups are often non-hierarchical, making it easier to mobilize but tougher to pass along institutional knowledge.
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“If the NFL only needs a 53-man roster plus seven practice players, why does college football need 85 full-scholarship players?”

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Many believe the association’s aid system is flawed — but not in the way you might think.
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But just 170,000 athletes — about 2 percent of those who compete in high school — receive a sports scholarship, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Many colleges award millions of dollars in athletic aid, touting individual scholarships worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the vast majority of athletes get nowhere near that much. For families expecting a return on their investment in their children’s sports, they are in for a surprise.

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Allison Goldblatt and her family believed that her elite status as a swimmer would pay her way at the college of her choice. But they found out the truth.
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How do you help your students avoid feeling like they don't belong in academe?

Some ideas for teaching your graduate students how to avoid feeling as if they don’t belong in academe.
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"Retirement plans are likely to benefit from simplifying the array of options they offer."

Colleges could improve their plans — and maybe avoid litigation, too — by making use of an expanding body of research by academic economists.
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"It’s basically a lesson in media literacy for my students that exploded to be something much beyond that."

Alarmed by the spread of unreliable news sites, Melissa Zimdars started keeping a list of the worst offenders. She had no idea how popular — or controversial — that list would become.
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The president-elect has alarmed researchers from abroad and, at times, rejected the scientific consensus on climate change and on vaccines. But he has also offered support for the federal role in funding research.
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Is the academic jobs crisis a boon to public culture?
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