By Colleen Flaherty. Trigger warnings don’t help students, and they might even hurt those grappling with serious trauma. That’s the upshot of a new study on trigger warnings published in Clinical Psychological Science. More...
2 avril 2019
2 avril 2019
Paid Vacation for Grad Assistants
By Colleen Flaherty. Boston U formalizes a graduate student leave policy allowing year-round stipend recipients 10 days off. More...
2 avril 2019
A Scientist's Anti-Gay Art Criticism
By Colleen Flaherty. Cardiologist loses journal editorship over homophobic comments he made to a local ballet but hangs on to his faculty job. He's reportedly defended his words, saying that his personal views have no bearing on his professional capabilities. More...
2 avril 2019
Survey of Campus Lactation Spaces
By Colleen Flaherty. A new study of dedicated lactation spaces in U.S. colleges and universities, published in Breastfeeding Medicine, finds that nearly all (94 percent) of 105 institutional respondents to a survey had a least one such space. More...
2 avril 2019
The Case for Disciplining Faculty Harassers
By Colleen Flaherty. Slapping faculty harassers on the wrists compromises the comprehensive prevention to which institutions are legally and ethically bound, according to a new paper. More...
2 avril 2019
When Students Want to Review a Tenured Professor
By Colleen Flaherty. A group of student activists at Sarah Lawrence College want the tenure of a conservative professor of political science reviewed, and they want to do the reviewing. More...
2 avril 2019
Uncertainty for Non-Tenure-Track Unions
By Colleen Flaherty. Federal appellate court decision could make it harder for adjuncts to form unions at private institutions, especially those adjuncts who want more of a say in institutional decision making. More...
2 avril 2019
More Notice for Non-Tenure-Track Professors in Missouri
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Missouri System this week released new guidelines for hiring non-tenure-track research and teaching professors who have served five years or more, saying that these faculty members must be given one year’s notice if they won’t be rehired. Previously, the standard was three months’ notice. More...
2 avril 2019
The Admissions Scandal and a Service for Ph.D.s
By Colleen Flaherty. Popular alternative-academic career platform was bought last year by the foundation behind the recently uncovered undergraduate admissions scheme. More...
2 avril 2019
No St. Paddy's Day Part II at U of Dayton
By Colleen Flaherty. Post-St. Patrick's Day will be business as usual at the University of Dayton, which advised its professors not to cancel classes today and to “set high expectations for class attendance,” such as by scheduling quizzes or tests during class time -- and warning students to be sober. More...
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