By Colleen Flaherty. Last week's bedbug controversy lives on, with The New York Times’ Bret Stephens dedicating his most recent column to how Nazis and other anti-Semites have compared Jews to “bedbugs” and “lice” over time. More...
05 septembre 2019
Bedbug Controversy Grows More Legs
College Supports Trans Scholar Under Fire
By Colleen Flaherty. The College of Charleston is defending a professor of philosophy against calls that she be fired for saying it’s morally permissible to be happy about someone’s death, The Post and Courier reported. More...
Adjunct Paths to Promotion at SUNY Oneonta
By Colleen Flaherty. The State University of New York at Oneonta and its American Federation of Teachers-affiliated faculty union, after four years of discussions, struck a deal that benefits part-time faculty members, they announced last week. More...
Scientific Advancement, ‘1 Funeral at a Time’
By Colleen Flaherty. New paper says the death of star scientists often benefits their subfields, via an influx in new contributors and ideas. More...
$360K Settlement for Grad Coercion Whistle-Blower
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Missouri at Kansas City settled for $360,000 with a professor who said he was retaliated against for reporting another professor for using foreign students as servants, The Kansas City Star reported. More...
Case Against Rochester Survives Legal Challenge
By Colleen Flaherty. The federal lawsuit against the University of Rochester filed by current and former faculty members and students in the brain and cognitive sciences department may proceed, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo said this week in a lengthy decision. More...
Re: Hellllllp!!!!
By Colleen Flaherty. Many professors say that teaching students how to email them properly is a necessary gift that keeps on giving. More...
‘Don’t Let the Bret Stephens Bite’
By Colleen Flaherty. Professor's tweet about the controversial New York Times columnist goes viral after the columnist CC's his provost on an angry email. More...
Sexual Harassment at University of Illinois
By Colleen Flaherty. Six professors and one staff member have been credibly accused of sexual harassment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since last year, according to an investigation by ProPublica and NPR Illinois. More...
New Data on Faculty Strikes
By Colleen Flaherty. There were 42 faculty and staff strikes and one lockout across academe from 2012 to 2018, according to a new study, with about two strikes per year involving professors. Adjuncts were involved in nearly all the faculty strikes. More...
