By Colleen Flaherty. The Orange Coast College student who videotaped a professor calling Donald Trump’s election as president “an act of terrorism” has been suspended. Read more...
17 février 2017
The Right Not to Be Recorded
Tears of Professor Clown
By Colleen Flaherty. Satirical academic social media accounts go serious to protest Donald Trump.
Academics are keen observers of the absurd in their professional lives -- or so their many ironic, often gallows-humor social media accounts suggest. Read more...
Harvard Cutting Graduate Admissions
By Colleen Flaherty. Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is cutting the size of its incoming class. Read more...
Midcareer Professors Need Love, Too
By Colleen Flaherty. Research to be presented at AAC&U makes case for supporting these faculty members and pushes back against notions that posttenure professors suffer from “malaise.” Read more...
‘Regaining Public Trust’
By Colleen Flaherty. Educators deliberate how to promote liberal education and push back on attacks on academe -- in part by being more open about areas in which higher education has been weak. Read more...
ACE Publishes Review of Fellows Program
By Colleen Flaherty. The paper, called “Looking Back and Looking Forward,” is a review of the ACE Fellows Program, which prepares faculty and staff members and administrators for senior leadership positions in a cohort-based mentorship model. Read more...
FIRE Releases Survey of Bias Response Teams
By Colleen Flaherty. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on Tuesday released a nationwide survey of college and university bias response teams, saying they pose a growing threat to free speech on campus. Read more...
The Prestige Gap
By Colleen Flaherty. Women earn 60 percent of baccalaureate degrees and 46 percent of doctoral degrees, excluding professional programs, according to 2015 data from the National Science Foundation, yet they’re still underrepresented in many disciplines. Why? A new study points to segregation by gender based on field of study and what it calls program prestige. Read more...
Lenient Grades, Unreliable Grades
By Colleen Flaherty. Study finds variation in the way students are evaluated -- and tougher grades appear to be closer to what they should be. But not necessary due to grade inflation alone. Read more...
Last Day to Apply for Lego Professor of Play
By Colleen Flaherty. Who says play is just for kids? Not the University of Cambridge, which through today is accepting applications for a Lego professorship of play. Read more...
