By Colleen Flaherty. Historian alleges coordinated criticism of her latest book, which is critical of radical right, from many who have received Koch funding. More...
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Documenting Harassment in Astronomy
By Colleen Flaherty. Harassment of women in astronomy has been an open secret for some time, but reformers faced a data problem. That is, others in the field wondered if harassment went beyond mere anecdotes -- as alarming as some of the stories were. More...
Google Reportedly Funds Friendly Academics
By Colleen Flaherty. Google funds academic researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, The Wall Street Journal reported. Over the past decade, the search engine has reportedly financed hundreds of research papers to help fight regulation that could harm it, via stipends of $5,000 to $400,000. More...
Stealth Attack on Liberal Scholar?
Student-Evaluated Out of Tenure
By Colleen Flaherty. American U scholar says provost cherry-picked negative student ratings of her teaching to deny her a promotion. More...
Leap of Faith
By Colleen Flaherty. Deciding to unionize alongside part-timers could have backfired on Notre Dame de Namur’s tenured and tenure-track faculty members. Here’s how it didn’t. More...
Fighting to Keep Leaders Who Are Academics
By Colleen Flaherty. Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison want to kill a state budget proposal that would ban the university system’s Board of Regents from requiring the system president and campus chancellors and vice chancellors be academics themselves. More...
U California Updates Sex Misconduct Procedures
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of California System last week announced new procedures for responding to alleged sexual misconduct by faculty members and staff, ABC 7 reported. The changes are supposed to provide more transparency, consistency and timeliness in investigations of assault after intense criticism of how the university handled assault and harassment cases on its campuses. More...
Another Professor Leaves Over Campus Carry
By Colleen Flaherty. Another public university professor from Kansas has resigned citing concerns over the state’s new campus carry law. Similar to laws adopted in other states, it allows students and others age 21 and over to bring concealed firearms onto public college and university grounds. More...
Controversial Professor's Crowdfunding Success
By Colleen Flaherty. Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and an outspoken critic of what he calls “compelled speech,” is making nearly $39,000 U.S. per month through crowdfunding, the Toronto Star reported. Donors support the professor’s opposition to politically correct speech, such as the mandatory use of the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” More...
Dude, Women Know Stuff
By Colleen Flaherty. We are political scientists. We are women. We know stuff. And we are deeply concerned about the implicit bias in our profession that minimizes and marginalizes the voices of women. More...
