By Colleen Flaherty. With many of its members facing “increased harassment, surveillance and threats on the basis of their political expressions and identities,” both inside the classroom and out, the National Communication Association approved a new “Statement on the Protection and Defense of Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression for Communication Scholars” this month. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. New paper explores just what faculty candidates include in their statements, which are currently the subject of debate. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Federal complaint says college repeatedly ignored reports of three former professors' "Animal House" behavior in harassing students. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Rutgers University has reversed course regarding a white professor who said he was resigning from his race after visiting a burger joint filled with “little Caucasian assholes” -- presumably children -- in rapidly gentrifying Harlem. The comments, made on Facebook in late spring, attracted widespread attention. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. History has seen the steepest decline in majors of all disciplines since the 2008 recession, according to a new analysis published in the American Historical Association's Perspectives on History. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. What a difference a chair makes: study finds female chairs improve departments' gender diversity and equity. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. With many institutions cutting or considering cutting humanities and arts programs and resources, the College Art Association has released guidelines for addressing substantive changes to art, art history or design programs. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Academic freedom is meant to protect scholars with controversial ideas. But a group of philosophers says academic freedom isn’t protection enough in an era of campus speech debates, internet trolls and threats against professors -- and that academics now need a place to publish their most sensitive ideas pseudonymously. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, which previously announced plans to cut 13 majors, on Monday said it will continue to evolve into “a new kind of regional university” and save about half the majors pegged for elimination. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Former Harvard dean's tweet against required faculty diversity statements sets off debate. More...
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