College 2.0
Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts
Instructors who cling to outdated practices may be holding back sorely needed teaching innovations.
The Crusader vs. the NCAA
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The Gospel According to Sonny
Sonny Vaccaro helped commercialize college sports. Now he wants athletes to get their due.
Audio: Sonny Vaccaro, in His Own Words
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Players: Ed O'Bannon Takes Aim at the NCAA
The former UCLA basketball star's antitrust lawsuit, supported by Sonny Vaccaro, is a potential game-changer.
New on Players
On Players, The Chronicle's athletics reporters offer news, analysis, and tidbits from the world of college sports. Here's the latest:
- 'I Grew to Hate Basketball'
Twenty-eight players and assistant coaches have quit the women's basketball program at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis over the past four years.
- On Bat Phones, Backstabbing, and Other Grievances
What's the underbelly of college sports look like? An anonymous survey of 20 high-profile basketball coaches sheds some light.
Reviewing the Reviewers
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Call Upon the Crowd
Instead of using blind peer-review, Shakespeare Quarterly allowed some contributors to post drafts of their articles online and accept comments from anyone.
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In Praise of Tough Criticism
An epidemic of faint praise and anonymous reviews threatens to enervate the free flow of ideas in academe.
- Journals Increasingly Need to Check for Plagiarism
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A Quiet Revolution in Scholarship
60 Questions
About 43,000 faculty members, staff members, and administrators told The Chronicle about their job satisfaction and their employers' ability to support, respect, and measure their performance:
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In the News
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Hearing on For-Profits to Feature Videos of Government Undercover Investigation
The videos, in which investigators posed as students in meetings with college recruiters, will be shown at a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday.
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A Working-Mother Lawyer Leaves the Counsel's Office to Lead Alumni Affairs
In the first of four articles about career switchers in higher education, an Ohio State administrator leaves corporate America for the scholarly world.
- U. of Illinois Retains Controversial Catholicism Instructor but Ends Church Role in Hiring
- Lawmakers Hear Arguments for and Against Open Access to Research
- Library-Services Companies Sue OCLC, Alleging Anticompetitive Practices
- NCAA Punishes U. of Arizona Men's Basketball Program
- Hedge-Fund Manager Pleads Guilty to Multimillion-Dollar Swindle of 4 Universities
- Teacher-Education Programs Are Unaccountable and Undemanding, Report Says
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Today's Presidents Might Come With Toddlers
- A Canadian College Where Adjuncts Go to Prosper
More News
New in the July 30 issue of The Chronicle: On Immigration Fault Line, Arizona Colleges Struggle for Balance. Plus: The Chronicle's third annual Great Colleges to Work For: The Ivory Sweatshop: Academe Is No Longer a Convivial Refuge
The Ticker
- U.S. Charges U. of Michigan Donor With Fraud, Saying Gift Was Ill-Gotten
- Chicago City Colleges Will Lay Off 225 Employees
- Senate Appropriations Panel Approves Spending on Student Aid and NIH
- Duke U. to Investigate Work of Suspended Associate Professor
- Poll of Hispanics Finds a Gap Between College Aspirations and Success
Wired Campus
- Harvard U. Institute Unveils Software That Helps Build Academic Sites
- Who Cares About Facebook Privacy? Students Do
- Justice Department Weighs Putting Web Sites Under Disability Rules
Arts & Letters Daily
Agnostics see atheism as "a theism"—as much a childlike, faith-based creed as the most orthodox of ordinary religions." More
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