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12 janvier 2020

Professor Removed from Class Over Hitler Video

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst put a professor on leave from teaching for the rest of the semester after she showed classes extra-credit videos that students found offensive. One such video, a parody of the song “Bust Down Thotiana,” was said to demean women, and another included a joke about the Holocaust. More...

12 janvier 2020

Required Pedagogy

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Online conversation shines a spotlight on graduate programs that teach students how to teach -- and those programs that don't. More...

12 janvier 2020

Making Them Sick

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Stanford graduate students say it's unacceptable that dependent health-care premiums have increased 80 percent in a few years. Many are pushing for free health care for their kids. More...

12 janvier 2020

Professor Removed Then Reinstated Over Discussion on Race

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Louisiana Tech University briefly removed an instructor of history from teaching over class discussions on race and other topics before reinstating him this month. More...

12 janvier 2020

Men, Women and Research ‘Self-Promotion’

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Men are more likely than women to frame their research findings as “novel,” “unique,” “promising” or otherwise positively, according to a new analysis of more than six million articles in the life sciences and academic medicine. More...

12 janvier 2020

Grading for STEM Equity

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Study suggests that professors should standardize their grading curves, saying it's an efficient way to boost women's enrollment in STEM. More...

12 janvier 2020

Momentum in Physics Ed

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Math, specifically calculus, is a barrier to many natural sciences, technology and engineering fields. Physics, which is math-heavy, often proves similarly challenging to students who wish to pursue STEM degrees. More...

12 janvier 2020

Tech Association Announces Dozens of Retractions

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. IEEE, a professional organization for scholars of technology, said Tuesday that it’s retracting 30 articles published in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility from 2016 to 2018 and 19 papers from the 2018 International Conference on Computing and Network Communications. More...

12 janvier 2020

Controversial Tenure Denial at Harvard

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Graduate student workers protested outside Harvard University over prolonged contract negotiations Tuesday, but elsewhere on campus, students continued their protest over the tenure denial of Lorgia García-Peña, scholar of Romance languages and literatures. More...

12 janvier 2020

On Strike at Harvard

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Graduate assistants walk out following prolonged contract negotiations over pay, benefits and Title IX protections. More...

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