This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education includes an article featuring Whitworth’s decision to stabilize traditional undergraduate enrollment to preserve and enhance the quality of the student learning experience. To read the article, visit http://chronicle.com/article/In-Tough-Times-Some-Colleges/127594/.
This article provides a great opportunity to inform the campus community that, courtesy of the Whitworth Library, there is now campus-wide online access to the Chronicle. This includes “premium content,” which is restricted to subscribers and not accessible to the world at large through the Chronicle’s public website. This week’s Whitworth story is an example of premium content available to the campus community.
An institutional online subscription makes the Chronicle readily available to all Whitworth faculty, staff, and students. It also makes it easy to share a particular story with others – the entire campus, a specific sub-population, or an individual – by simply e-mailing them the link.
How can you access the institutional subscription? As long as you’re on the campus network, you can go directly to the Chronicle’s home page – Google it, for example, or use this link, which you may want to bookmark: http://chronicle.com/section/Home/5.
If you’re not connected to the campus network (traveling, working from home, etc.), you can still access it by way of the library’s website, http://www.whitworth.edu/library/. Just select the “Databases and Indexes” page, then select the alphabetical list, find the Chronicle of Higher Education entry, and click on the “Off Campus” button next to it.
The institutional subscription gives direct access to any news story, editorial, commentary, job listing, and most other content. A few rubrics, such as participation in online forums, require a personal registration, which is free.
Please report any difficulties you may experience with the institutional Chronicle access to Hans Bynagle (x4482, hbynagle@whitworth.edu) or Nancy Bunker (x4481, nbunker@whitworth.edu).
