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21 avril 2018

U Chicago Adjuncts Approve First Union Contract

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Non-tenure-track faculty members at the University of Chicago voted nearly unanimously to ratify their first union contract, they announced Monday. More...

21 avril 2018

Political Science Group Apologizes for Holding Conference at Brigham Young

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. The Society for Political Methodology’s annual meeting will be held at Brigham Young University, the group announced Monday, despite ongoing concerns about the campus climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender scholars. More...

21 avril 2018

Pasco-Hernando State College Faculty Forms Union

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Pasco-Hernando State College's faculty has unionized, 64 in favor and 62 against, according tbo.com. The new union is a chapter of the United Faculty of Florida, which is affiliated with National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. More...

21 avril 2018

Tackling the Reproducibility Crisis

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. The National Association of Scholars on Tuesday published a report on the "The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science: Causes, Consequences, and the Road to Reform." Much already has been said about the reproducibility crisis in science, including that it’s exaggerated. More...

21 avril 2018

Furor Over Professor Who Called Barbara Bush Racist

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. After initially appearing to defend the free speech of Randa Jarrar, an associate professor of English who tweeted that the late former first lady Barbara Bush was “an amazing racist” who raised a “war criminal,” Fresno State University said Wednesday that it would investigate her. More...

21 avril 2018

Editorial Malpractice?

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. The editor of a prestigious political science journal uses its website to deny harassment allegations against him, prompting the Midwest Political Science Association to take action critics say it should have taken months ago. More...

21 avril 2018

Closing Academic Publishing's Gender Gap

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Academic publishing’s gender gap is likely to continue for generations, especially in certain fields, according to a new analysis of 10 million science, technology, engineering and math-related papers published in nearly 6,000 journals worldwide over the last 15 years. More...

21 avril 2018

Harassment, Humiliation and Sexism, Ignored for Years

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. At Utah State, one professor is out and reforms are pledged for a piano program where misconduct was tolerated. More...

21 avril 2018

Confederate Sympathizer on Blast

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Florida Atlantic professor faces opposition from students after his essays blaming "black supremacy" for slavery and generally defending the Confederacy surface. More...

21 avril 2018

UT Austin Won't Move Fine Arts Library Collection

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. The University of Texas at Austin will not move tens of thousands more items out of the Fine Arts Library to repurpose the fifth-floor stack space, it announced Friday. More...

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