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14 décembre 2014

The Inverse Interview

By Elizabeth H. Simmons. I recently read Edmond Lau’s terrific article for engineering job candidates, which stressed that the interviewee must ask thoughtful questions of the interviewer. Being in the middle of the faculty search season at my college, I was struck by the soundness of the advice – and the need for an article tailored to candidates for academic positions. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

Unsustainable Postdocs

By Colleen Flaherty. Postdoctoral fellowships make a lot of sense in theory: They offer recent Ph.D.s, especially those aspiring to careers in academic research, a place to develop professionally and – hopefully -- build a research profile before or while hitting the job market. But too often, these fellowships are underpaid, under-mentored positions where young academics languish during what are potentially their most creative, productive years. That’s the upshot of a new report from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine, which is highly critical of the structural factors driving the growth of postdoctoral ranks, and which recommends a series of reforms – including a big raise for postdocs working on federally-funding biomedical research. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

African Universities or Universities in Africa

By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Universities in developing countries are ignoring potential areas of strength because they are too focused on imitating successful Anglo or American institutions, according to a South African university leader. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

Budget Deal Unveiled

By Michael Stratford. Congressional leaders agreed Tuesday on a spending bill that would avoid a government shutdown and provide modest increases to student aid programs and scientific research. The compromise deal, which would fund most of the federal government until next October, would also restore a pathway to student aid for students who do not have a high school diploma or its equivalent, like a GED. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

Clash in the Stacks

By Carl Straumsheim. Several library directors at liberal arts institutions have lost their jobs as they clash with faculty and administrators over how much -- and how fast -- the academic library should change. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

MOOC Harassment

By Scott Jaschik. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Monday that it has removed the online courses of a prominent physics professor after finding that he had engaged in the online sexual harassment of a female student. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

Students Praise Male Professors

By Kaitlin Mulhere. College students' assessments of their instructors' teaching ability is linked to whether they think those instructors are male or female, according to new research from North Carolina State University. In the study, students in an online course gave better evaluations to the instructors they thought were male, even though the two instructors – one male and one female – had switched their identities. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

Academics Prepared for Retirement

By Doug Lederman. The economic downturn appears to have pushed back the timeframe for many higher education employees to retire -- but when they ultimately do, they will be better prepared financially and otherwise than other Americans, a new survey suggests.
The survey, by the pension giant TIAA-CREF, asked a group of higher education professionals a set of questions about their retirement plans and preparation, and compared those findings with a similar survey of all Americans. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

Best of a Bad Situation?

By Paul Fain. The U.S. Department of Education last week defended the deal it helped broker for Corinthian Colleges, a disintegrating for-profit chain, to sell 56 of its campuses to a nonprofit student loan guarantee agency, ECMC. If approved, the proposed $24 million purchase “fends off disastrous consequences,” the department said in a written statement. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

Quiet Players, Deep Pockets

By Paul Fain. Student loan guarantee agencies faced an uncertain future in 2010, when the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress eliminated government-backed private lending. With the federal government issuing only direct loans, the guarantee business of insuring bank loans was destined to dry up. As a result, the more than 30 guarantee agencies have been trying to diversify in recent years. Read more...

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