By Colleen Flaherty. A professor of sociology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor disciplined for harassment should have been able to cross-examine her student accusers, a federal judge ruled last week, according to Mlive.com. More...
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Judge: Professor Had Right to Question Her Accusers
Pointing the Finger at Colleagues
By Colleen Flaherty. Scholar's article said his colleagues were publishing in "predatory journals." Now he's banned from campus. More...
Columbia Bends on Grad Union Issue
By Colleen Flaherty. In reversal, Columbia says it's open to collective bargaining with its graduate student union -- with some caveats. Brown U graduate students vote to unionize. More...
Communication Professors on Academic Freedom
By Colleen Flaherty. With many of its members facing “increased harassment, surveillance and threats on the basis of their political expressions and identities,” both inside the classroom and out, the National Communication Association approved a new “Statement on the Protection and Defense of Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression for Communication Scholars” this month. More...
Breaking Down Diversity Statements
By Colleen Flaherty. New paper explores just what faculty candidates include in their statements, which are currently the subject of debate. More...
Bombshell Lawsuit Against Dartmouth
By Colleen Flaherty. Federal complaint says college repeatedly ignored reports of three former professors' "Animal House" behavior in harassing students. More...
Rutgers Reverses Finding on Professor's Remark on White People
By Colleen Flaherty. Rutgers University has reversed course regarding a white professor who said he was resigning from his race after visiting a burger joint filled with “little Caucasian assholes” -- presumably children -- in rapidly gentrifying Harlem. The comments, made on Facebook in late spring, attracted widespread attention. More...
The Vanishing History Major
By Colleen Flaherty. History has seen the steepest decline in majors of all disciplines since the 2008 recession, according to a new analysis published in the American Historical Association's Perspectives on History. More...
The Impact of Female Chairs
By Colleen Flaherty. What a difference a chair makes: study finds female chairs improve departments' gender diversity and equity. More...
Guidelines on Arts Programs Facing Cuts
By Colleen Flaherty. With many institutions cutting or considering cutting humanities and arts programs and resources, the College Art Association has released guidelines for addressing substantive changes to art, art history or design programs. More...
