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13 juillet 2017

Google Reportedly Funds Friendly Academics

By Colleen Flaherty. Google funds academic researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, The Wall Street Journal reported. Over the past decade, the search engine has reportedly financed hundreds of research papers to help fight regulation that could harm it, via stipends of $5,000 to $400,000. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Stealth Attack on Liberal Scholar?

By Colleen Flaherty. Historian alleges coordinated criticism of her latest book, which is critical of radical right, from many who have received Koch funding. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Student-Evaluated Out of Tenure

By Colleen Flaherty. American U scholar says provost cherry-picked negative student ratings of her teaching to deny her a promotion. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Leap of Faith

By Colleen Flaherty. Deciding to unionize alongside part-timers could have backfired on Notre Dame de Namur’s tenured and tenure-track faculty members. Here’s how it didn’t. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Fighting to Keep Leaders Who Are Academics

By Colleen Flaherty. Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison want to kill a state budget proposal that would ban the university system’s Board of Regents from requiring the system president and campus chancellors and vice chancellors be academics themselves. More...

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13 juillet 2017

U California Updates Sex Misconduct Procedures

By Colleen Flaherty. The University of California System last week announced new procedures for responding to alleged sexual misconduct by faculty members and staff, ABC 7 reported. The changes are supposed to provide more transparency, consistency and timeliness in investigations of assault after intense criticism of how the university handled assault and harassment cases on its campuses. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Another Professor Leaves Over Campus Carry

By Colleen Flaherty. Another public university professor from Kansas has resigned citing concerns over the state’s new campus carry law. Similar to laws adopted in other states, it allows students and others age 21 and over to bring concealed firearms onto public college and university grounds. More...

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13 juillet 2017

Controversial Professor's Crowdfunding Success

By Colleen Flaherty. Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and an outspoken critic of what he calls “compelled speech,” is making nearly $39,000 U.S. per month through crowdfunding, the Toronto Star reported. Donors support the professor’s opposition to politically correct speech, such as the mandatory use of the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” More...

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13 juillet 2017

Dude, Women Know Stuff

By Colleen Flaherty. We are political scientists. We are women. We know stuff. And we are deeply concerned about the implicit bias in our profession that minimizes and marginalizes the voices of women. More...

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13 juillet 2017

The Dangers of Filtered Speech

By Colleen Flaherty. Two more professors -- one at Trinity of Connecticut and one at Syracuse -- find themselves the target of physical threats and harassment. More...

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