17 décembre 2016

By Steven Conn. If we as faculty members can’t be honest among ourselves, Steven Conn asks, will we be surprised if our professional autonomy gets taken away by administrators or boards of trustees or state legislators. Read more...

By Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra. Many faculty members remain uncertain about how parental leave and other gaps should be treated professionally, write Jennifer Lundquist and Joya Misra, who provide some advice for both job seekers and institutions. Read more...

By J. Sumerau. A lot of my scholarly work has been published with other authors. In fact, I have published more than 50 academic works, and many of them have emerged out of productive collaborations. Read more...

By Mike Spivey. Our mission -- it felt like we were a team in that moment -- was to help our campus make sense of the results of an election that many found shocking and even frightening. The rest of the panel consisted of professors of politics and government, religion, gender and queer studies, and African-American studies. Why was a mathematician on the panel? I was the person the university found to give the conservative perspective. Read more...

By Bill Mahon. Although colleges and universities have spent tens of millions of dollars on complex emergency communications systems to try to make campuses safer, the technology has serious limitations, warns Bill Mahon. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. In Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Hotel, author Christopher P. Dum portrays not only inescapable squalor but also efforts to create order in seriously damaged lives, writes Scott McLemee. Read more...

By Antonio Bowen. In a democracy, students need to learn to live with a high tolerance for ambiguity, writes José Antonio Bowen. Read more...

By Thomas J. Pfaff and Robert Sullivan. The fact that the relationship between higher education institutions and their faculties can be like that of cities and their commuters illuminates the cultural problems on many campuses. Read more...

By Ajay Nair. A better understanding of both individual and systemic racism can help us meet the looming challenge of uniting/reuniting our campuses and nation through respectful dialogue across difference, writes Ajay Nair. Read more...

By Brandon Busteed. We in higher education must embrace a new era in which people feel their opinions truly matter, argues Brandon Busteed. Read more...