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16 juin 2018

How New Humanities Ph.D.s Fare

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. New data analysis from American Academy of Arts and Sciences says humanities Ph.D.s may earn less than their counterparts in other fields but are satisfied -- particularly if they stay in academe. More...

16 juin 2018

Dude, Women Also Know History

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Making excuses for all-male conference panels (or citations or syllabi) just got harder. Inspired by the work of Women Also Know Stuff, an awareness campaign about the work of female political scientists, female historians recently launched Woman Also Know History. More...

16 juin 2018

Man Charged With Threatening Professor

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Police charged a Boston man with threat to commit assault and civil rights violations this week, months after he allegedly threatened a Bridgewater State University professor about his social media comments. More...

16 juin 2018

DFW Fail

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Teaching matters at Savannah State University, Georgia’s oldest historically black institution, and the faculty knows that. But professors there didn’t know until recently that the rate at which they give D and F grades and see students withdraw from their courses was impacting the tenure and promotion process. More...

16 juin 2018

Push for Big Change in Graduate STEM Ed

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. U.S. graduate education in science, technology, engineering and math is, in many ways, the “gold standard” for the world. But it can and must better prepare graduates for a changing science landscape and multiple careers. It should also be more transparent in terms of where graduates end up working. More...

16 juin 2018

U Wyoming Board Agrees to Less Severe Shared Governance Changes

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. After pushback from professors, the members of the University of Wyoming’s Board of Trustees and Faculty Senate reached an agreement on the board’s proposed changes to institutional regulations, the university announced. The board will vote on the updated regulations in July, but they’re expected to pass. More...

16 juin 2018

Relationship Restrictions

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. A number of colleges and universities banned faculty-undergraduate dating or otherwise shored up their consensual relationship policies after the Education Department published a reminder letter about sexual harassment liability, in 2011. Other institutions had adopted such policies earlier. More...

16 juin 2018

Teaching Eval Shake-Up

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Most institutions say they value teaching. But how they assess it tells a different story. University of Southern California has stopped using student evaluations of teaching in promotion decisions in favor of peer-review model. Oregon seeks to end quantitative evaluations of teaching for holistic model. More...

16 juin 2018

Cornell Violated Federal Labor Law in Grad Assistant Union Election

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Cornell University violated federal labor law during last year’s union election for graduate assistants, but the election results will stand, an arbitrator said this week. More...

16 juin 2018

Arizona Community College Cuts Football

HomeBy Ashley A. Smith. Pima County Community College officials are cutting the institution's football program, according to the Arizona Daily Star. More...

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