How many of us who strayed from the academic track, asks Robert Alford, have ended up feeling alienated from those who mentored us. More...Katherine Haley describes 10 things that boards and search committees need to know to run a successful presidential search. More...In spite of the growing attention given to body positivity and fat acceptance movements, Bobbi Reidinger writes, weight-based discrimination affects the levels of power and influence afforded such a scholar. More...Across a growing body of faculty productivity scholarship, researchers tend to prescribe one of two avenues for writing success. More...So … I’m white, writes Amanda Cornwall. Can I be effective as a mentor to students from underrepresented groups. More...Jeff Gold, Roy Stripling and Michal Kurlaender describe a program that encourages professors to use tools offering specifics about the academic trajectories of their students to help facilitate those students' paths to a college degree. More...
Peter Pomerantsev's This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality demonstrates that one variety of globalization is compatible with economic protectionism, cultural isolationism and an obsession with national sovereignty, Scott McLemee writes. More...
Opening up Pell Grants to short-term training is a promising idea, but changes are needed to prevent unintended consequences for equity, writes Jim Jacobs. More...
While faculty members believe that their practices are fair and objective, a closer look reveals that they are anything but, argues Joe Feldman. More...
Jim Jump reviews a paper on how the university treats athletes, legacies and others. More...
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