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Teagle Foundation’s New President: Private Universities Have Public Responsibilities - Andrew Delbanco, an American-studies professor at Columbia University, says wealthy institutions sho ow.ly/JKdo50gX3oG

Women’s-Studies Students Across the Nation Are Editing Wikipedia - The director of the National Women’s Studies Association describes progress in mobilizing students ow.ly/eWDO50gW5Dc

What Delayed Course Evaluations Might — and Might Not — Reveal - Professors like to think that their lessons stick with students long after a course ends. Do they? ow.ly/Eqfu50gVaH1

How to Bring New Board Members Up to Speed - If you want to avoid governance disasters, you need to be systematic about orienting trustees. ow.ly/nyz150gUfhV

‘What It Means to Be a Woman Is Not Static’: How Women’s Colleges Are Handling Transgender Applicants - So far, more than a dozen have published admissions policies for transgender students. Many will now ow.ly/JTo550gT16A

Newly Constructed Bridge Collapses at Florida International U.; Fatalities Are Reported - The pedestrian bridge was installed just days ago and was still under construction. The incident res ow.ly/WJvS50gS7xt

Can Higher Education Make Silicon Valley More Ethical? - An assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hopes to infuse ethics lessons into core ow.ly/KBg750gReCC

How the NCAA’s March Madness Windfall Makes Its Way to Colleges - The tournament is as lucrative as ever for the association and its member institutions. The formulas ow.ly/Qu6S50gPoNM

How a Harassment Controversy Tore a University Apart - The president resigned. A department is in shambles. And many women say the University of Rochester ow.ly/daqB50gOvcS

‘Please Don’t Deport Our Professor’: Augsburg U. Frets Over One of Its Own - A professor of English at the Minneapolis institution said immigration authorities told him he needs ow.ly/9gQR50gNVW8

Academic Conferences May Save Lives — by Keeping Big-Name Doctors Busy - That’s the counterintuitive conclusion of a study by scientists at Harvard. The report’s lead au ow.ly/1tTK50gNkSe

In a Fight Against Depression, UCLA Relies on Technology - The university hopes to eliminate depression by the end of the century. The effort begins on its own ow.ly/eeOr50gMr2s

Enrollment in Most Foreign-Language Programs Continues to Fall - Japanese and Korean stood out as exceptions in a new study that shows overall decreases since 2013. ow.ly/cmqu50gLxxZ

Starter Kit: New to College Teaching - Walking into a college classroom to teach for the first time can be daunting. This collection will b ow.ly/rW1750gKCos

What Gets Forgotten in Debates About the Liberal Arts - Career success for humanities majors doesn’t always depend on what those disciplines taught you. S ow.ly/PA7D50gJIen

The 2018 Trends Report - Our 2018 Trends Report outlines 10 key shifts in higher education, and offers case studies, analysis ow.ly/9KPJ50gIQwh

Why Professors at One University Want It to Revoke Trump’s Honorary Degree - If a student were repeatedly to make racist, sexist, or offensive public statements, the student wou ow.ly/kFtm50gHG7r

Is Student Debt Big Enough to Hold Back the Economy? What the Research Says - The chairman of the Federal Reserve told senators on Thursday that America’s student-loan burden c ow.ly/sgkt50gGPtt

Campus IT Departments Are a Good Home for Creatives - EdTech ow.ly/2hnz30iHtaA

Tennessee System Renews Call for Post-Tenure Review. Faculty See a Threat - A new proposal, like one that was scuttled in 2015, is perceived by faculty on the Knoxville campus ow.ly/Txa850gFWIB