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2 avril 2019

Promises Ignored?

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Yale has pledged millions for faculty diversity, but 13 professors who teach in its ethnicity, race and migration studies program say they'll walk if they don't get the resources and autonomy they've been promised. More...

2 avril 2019

When Grading Less Is More

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Professors' reflections on their experiences with "ungrading" spark renewed interest in the student-centered assessment practice. More...

2 avril 2019

Punishing Anonymity for Professors

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Franciscan U of Steubenville is seeking to block faculty members from talking about university matters anonymously to the press and to limit what they may otherwise discuss publicly. More...

2 avril 2019

One Discipline's Soaring Publishing Expectations

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. It's not just you: sociology's publishing expectations have doubled in recent decades, by some measures, and that threatens research ingenuity, according to one study. More...

2 avril 2019

Miami Dade Adjuncts Form Union

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Adjunct instructors at Miami Dade College voted to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, 587 to 573, they announced Wednesday. The college now has the country’s largest adjunct union, according to SEIU. More...

2 avril 2019

Elon University Adjuncts Unionize

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Adjunct professors at Elon University voted to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, 112 to 68, the News & Record reported. More...

2 avril 2019

Political ‘Litmus Tests’ in Florida

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. The bill, HB 839, passed a House panel last week, amid opposition from Democrats who expressed concern about how the survey data would be used. A similar bill has been proposed in the Florida Senate. More...

2 avril 2019

Expansion Plans Could Mean More Faculty Housing at Stanford

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Santa Clara County may require Stanford University to nearly quadruple its planned number of employee housing units to secure permission for a campus expansion, The Almanac reported. Stanford wants to build up to 2.3 million square feet of new academic space, 2,600 student beds and 550 units of housing for faculty and staff members. More...

2 avril 2019

Big Buyouts at U of Akron

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. The University of Akron will offer to buy out 47 percent of its faculty, according to Cleveland.com. The deal is 100 percent of 2019-20 base bay, paid out in two installments, with a separation date of May 2020. More...

2 avril 2019

Half of the Women in the Field

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Survey of economics association members finds 48 percent of women have been discriminated against on the basis of sex within the last 10 years. Findings on nonwhite, disabled and LGBTQ economists are concerning, too. More...

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