By University of Venus. At The Nation: Starting September 7, the first day of the fall semester at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, classes will be taught entirely by non-faculty members—not because the faculty are on strike, but because on the Friday before Labor Day the administration officially locked out all 400 members of the Long Island University Faculty Federation (LIUFF), which represents full-time and adjunct faculty. More...
By University of Venus. Amid recent debates about name changes at Yale and conversations at universities around the country on how best to acknowledge their part in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Georgetown University announced last week that it would offer preferential admission to the descendants of 272 enslaved people that the university sold in the 1830s to pay off the university’s debt. More...
By Janni Aragon. The last two times I had a job interview for a tenure-track job or academic administrator position I was successful. I had spent 2/3 of my academic career as a contingent faculty member and felt like I had caught the golden snitch. More...
By Anna CohenMiller. Work-life balance in academia is a common topic for academic articles, books, and in particular for those who are mothering and managing academic work (see here, here, and here, and here, and here and here…you get the point, just search for “balance academia” and add in mother and the links are almost limitless). More...
By Laura Tropp. I’ve always been interested in how we divide topics into private and public categories, particularly in regards to sex and gender. This is why I have been following so closely the shift of menstruation from private to public. Some media outlets have declared 2015 as the Year of the Period. Read more...
By Laura Tropp. Recently, I was shopping with my daughters for clothing. One is squarely within the “tween” market, and the other is on the cusp of it. I find shopping for them to be frustrating at times because of the lack of clothing choices. Read more...
By Laura Tropp. A student of my hybrid online class sent an email to me, complaining that the online notes for my class were designed poorly (she did not like the background colors) and that she was paying too much money for my sloppiness. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. As I teach Macroeconomics this semester, the subject ventures into topics relating to the role of the government in our economy. Such topics are central to the study of Keynesian Economics, an approach to Economics that used government policy to help draw the United States out of the Great Depression. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I teach Economics, I often begin by discussing how the subject is the study of how people make decisions in the face of scarcity. I then go on to discuss what kinds of things are “scarce” in our lives. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In Linear Algebra, in isolating a variable by adding and subtracting multiples of given rows of equations to and from others, the position of the isolated variable is described as a “pivot” position. Read more...
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