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24 avril 2016

Beyond a Deficit View

By Byron P. White. Administrators and faculty members desperately need a new language to characterize minority, low-income and first-generation students -- one that frees us from dependence on labels such as “disadvantaged,” argues Byron P. White. Read more...

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24 avril 2016

Enriching Public Culture

By Scott McLemee. When a well-established award is announced -- as the 100th set of Pulitzer Prize winners was on Tuesday -- it tends to consume the available limelight. Anything less monumental tends to disappear into its shadow. Read more...

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24 avril 2016

Moving Beyond Op-Eds

By W. Robert Connor. A friend who teaches classics at a fine liberal arts college told me that she had met the president of the institution walking across campus. He greeted her, and they chatted for a few seconds. Read more...

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24 avril 2016

Adding Good Data to Good Stories

By Paula M. Krebs. Several dozen faculty members, administrators, employers, and others recently came together to discuss how to measure student success in the humanities. Read more...

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24 avril 2016

'The Slow Professor'

By Colleen Flaherty. In 2013, the jobs website CareerCast named university professor the No. 1 least stressful job, unleashing a torrent of criticism that only grew after Forbes picked up the ranking. Professors -- those with tenure and without -- said the study ignored the changing dynamics of the university, namely the increasingly administrative nature of academic work, the emerging student-as-customer model, unrealistic research expectations and 24-7 contact with colleagues and students via email. Non-tenure-track professors also pointed out that they in many cases lack all job security.
CareerCast evidently learned something from the controversy -- its 2016 least stressful jobs list specifies tenured professor, at No. 3 -- but old notions about what it is to be a professor die hard. Read more...

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24 avril 2016

Truth in Jest

By Colleen Flaherty. Adjunct union protests working conditions and stalled contract negotiations with fake job pamphlet. Read more...

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24 avril 2016

Deferring a Year

By Scott Jaschik. A few dozen members of the coalition of leading colleges that plans to reform college admissions with a new application system this summer don't plan to use it for the next year. Read more...

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24 avril 2016

New Study Abroad Population

By Ashley A. Smith. Small community colleges consider study abroad programs to retain students and offer something different. Read more...

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24 avril 2016

A Broader Protest Agenda

By Josh Logue. Race is still a prominent issue in this semester's rallies and sit-ins, but students are also pushing issues related to campus employees, foreign policy, state laws on sexual orientation and more -- and linking the various topics. Read more...

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24 avril 2016

Pushing New Math Paths

By Josh Logue. Cadre of esteemed mathematicians gain traction in their campaign to remake the college curriculum in the discipline. Read more...

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