Video Report: Adjuncts Speak Out
Eight adjunct professors working in the Chicago area sat down with The Chronicle and spoke candidly about working part time, feeling like second-class citizens on their campuses, and drawing inspiration from their students.
Tech Therapy
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Audio: What Incentives Will Get Professors to Use Technology?
Marsha Marinich, an adjunct professor at Marymount University, and John McFadden, retired chief information officer at Loyola University Maryland, offer their views.
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Audio: When IT Grows, Can You Keep Up?
Colleges too often make the same mistake: failing to plan for the maintenance and replacement of big technology purchases.
- Audio: Are You Tracking What You Do?
- Audio: Fewer People, More Work?
- Audio: Ending the Standoff Between Faculty and IT
- Audio: Launch New Product. Shoot Self in Foot.
In a Washington Minute
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Audio: Colleges Prepare for a Student-Loan Shift
Even though student-loan legislation has been delayed, most colleges participating in the bank-based loan program are getting ready to switch to direct lending.
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Audio: A Chat With Muriel A. Howard
Ms. Howard, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, describes how stimulus money has helped colleges—and where it has fallen short.
- Audio: Arne Duncan Takes Aim at Teacher Training
- Audio: For-Profit Colleges Come Under Scrutiny
- Audio: Student-Loan Debate Moves to the Grass Roots
- Audio: For-Profit Colleges Under Scrutiny
The President's Office
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Audio: Taking the Reins in Tight Times
Bruce Shepard, who became president of Western Washington University in September 2008, describes some of the tough cuts he had to make in his first year on the job.
- Audio: Graham Spanier on the Changing Role of the Public-University President
- Audio: The Case for a New Kind of Public University
- Audio: Community Colleges Become Hot Commodities
- Audio: Spelman College Extends a Helping Hand
- Audio: Can Liberal Arts Colleges Survive?
Audio Interviews
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Audio: Community Colleges Create a Measuring Stick
Joe D. May, president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College system, explains a new accountability system that community colleges are developing.
- Audio: Jack Welch Discusses His New Online Business Program
- Audio: When Athletics Are Too Expensive
- Audio: How the Labor Department Can Work With Community Colleges
- Audio: Students' Money Woes and Misconceptions
- Audio: Fund Raising in Tough Times
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Athletics
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Nota Bene
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Commentary
