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11 octobre 2017

The Missing Black Professors

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Study of top public universities finds limited faculty diversity, yet signs of progress -- except for African-Americans in STEM. More...

11 octobre 2017

Should Grad Students Publish?

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Two vastly different disciplines consider whether there are too many journal articles these days, and whether graduate student publishing is part of the problem. Some see that analysis as shortsighted. More...

11 octobre 2017

The New, New Education

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Cathy Davidson’s new book is a manifesto on teaching students -- and institutions -- how to survive and thrive in the digital age. More...

11 octobre 2017

Teaching Sociology in 2017

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Sociologists talk about teaching in the political now, with an emphasis on critical media literacy, ground rules for a discussion and an understanding that students see sociology classrooms as somewhere to try to make sense of current events. More...

11 octobre 2017

Professor Wrongly Identified as White Supremacist

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Kyle Quinn, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Arkansas, was mistakenly identified as a participant in Friday’s white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Va., The New York Times reported. More...

11 octobre 2017

Termination for Harvey Tweet

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. University of Tampa fires a professor who suggested Texas deserved the hurricane for helping put President Trump in the White House. More...

11 octobre 2017

Economics Faculty War

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. New Koch-backed institute at the University of Utah is raising questions about academic freedom and whether the center is designed to compete with Utah’s existing economics department. More...

11 octobre 2017

Killing a Doctorate

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Ohio State State University took the extraordinary step of revoking a graduate’s doctorate last week. Now her future at the University of Arizona, where she is an assistant professor of communication, is unclear. More...

11 octobre 2017

Political Science Jobs Down

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Political news was plentiful last year but political science jobs were down significantly year-over-year, and to their lowest point since 2010, according to the American Political Science Association’s annual jobs report. More...

11 octobre 2017

Call for Retraction

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Dartmouth professors ask president to apologize for his "disavowal" of of a controversial scholar who writes about and is sympathetic to "antifa" activism. More...

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