By Colleen Flaherty. Study of top public universities finds limited faculty diversity, yet signs of progress -- except for African-Americans in STEM. More...
Should Grad Students Publish?
By 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...
The New, New Education
By 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...
Teaching Sociology in 2017
By 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...
Professor Wrongly Identified as White Supremacist
By 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...
Termination for Harvey Tweet
By Colleen Flaherty. University of Tampa fires a professor who suggested Texas deserved the hurricane for helping put President Trump in the White House. More...
Economics Faculty War
By 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...
Killing a Doctorate
By 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...
Political Science Jobs Down
By 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...
Call for Retraction
By 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...