Afternoon Update: You're Not Just Leaving Academe, You're Leaving Your Students

[THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] #subscribelink [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Subscribe to The Chronicle today to get access to premium content and more.]( Afternoon Update Monday, May 14, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sign up for this newsletter]( Today’s News --------------------------------------------------------------- Advice [You’re Not Just Leaving Academe, You’re Leaving Your Students]( By Erin Bartram The permanent departure of a faculty member, contingent or otherwise, has real implications for undergraduates. Letters [Open Letter Against Media Treatment of Junot Díaz]( The issue is not whether or not one believes Díaz, or his accusers, but whether one approves the use of media to violently make a spectacle out of a single person. ProfHacker [Podcasts and Privacy]( Jason B. Jones looks at a podcast app that was updated to protect user privacy rather than yield to the surge of advertising-driven analytics. Paid for and Created by University of Florida [Growing Plants in a Hostile Environment]( Modified GoPro identifies plants in distress and may create a viable agriculture system on Mars. What’s Popular on Chronicle.com --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Erotic Professor]( By Corey Robin Money and the murky boundary of teaching and sex. [This Is What Georgia Tech Thinks College Will Look Like in 2040]( [premium] By Beth McMurtrie It includes new credentials to recognize continuous learning, a subscription fee model, and worldwide networks of advisers for life. [Why I Escaped the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’]( By Alice Dreger Pissing off progressives isn’t intellectual progress. [Are You in a BS Job? In Academe, You’re Hardly Alone]( [premium] By David Graeber Much of our work has no social value, and we hate doing it. [View the Latest Jobs in Higher Education]( [THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] 1255 Twenty-Third St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [Add us on Google+](chroniclehighereducation/posts?elqTrackId=91f164bd02aa470994ae99d18fda66fa&elq=d28561e55ab9422eb243e7acdd509d48&elqaid=19049&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8618) [Subscribe Today]( Get the insight you need for success in academe. [Stop receiving this newsletter]( Copyright © 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education