By Colleen Flaherty. The American Historical Association Council rejected one petition from a group of historians critical of Israel and reworded another at its recent meeting. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
24 janvier 2017
History Jobs Flat
By Colleen Flaherty. Teaching jobs for historians are down, but data suggest their opportunities outside the professoriate are on the rise. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Teaching in the Eye of the Beholder
By Colleen Flaherty. Many professors laugh off their reviews at RateMyProfessors -- after all, “hotness,” one of the site’s metrics (connoted by a chili pepper), doesn’t really translate to tenure or promotion. Yet some research suggests that, like it or not, the site’s ratings correlate with ratings professors earn on their institutions’ student evaluations of teaching. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Rational Actors
By Colleen Flaherty. Study suggests that number of students taught has relatively little to do with faculty salaries, but that universities act efficiently in allocating resources to teaching and research. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Report Warns of 'New Civics,' Seeks Requirement
By Colleen Flaherty. A new report from the National Association of Scholars warns against the rise of what it calls “new civics” and recommends that legislators mandate a course in “traditional” American civics as a graduation requirement at all colleges and universities that receive public funding. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Study: Biomedical Postdocs Might Not Be Worth It
By Colleen Flaherty. Postdoctoral positions in the biomedical sciences are now considered almost a prerequisite for a permanent position in the field. But a new study published in Nature Biotechnology suggests that postdoc stints don’t yield positive returns in the labor market and likely cost graduates three years’ worth of salary in their first 15 years of work. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Energizing the History Survey
By Colleen Flaherty. Students and professors tend to loathe survey-style history courses for the same reasons: they’re often large and impersonal, cover long periods of time in little detail, and amount to a slew of dates, events and names over something more meaningful. Yet (or perhaps as a result) survey courses are, for many undergraduates, the only history courses they’ll ever take. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Adjuncts Included in Unemployment Guidance
By Colleen Flaherty. The Labor Department has updated its guidance for temporary unemployment in ways that adjunct advocates say may make it easier to collect benefits between academic terms. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Anthropologists Seek to Protect Academic Freedom
By Colleen Flaherty. The American Anthropological Association established a Rapid Response Network on Academic Freedom and affiliated with Scholars at Risk to strengthen its commitment to free inquiry, it announced Monday. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Historians in the Age of Trump
By Colleen Flaherty. Scholars debate what his election means, whether efforts to band together as a discipline to oppose him were wrong and what the future may hold for their field. Read more...
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