By Colleen Flaherty. Professors' reflections on their experiences with "ungrading" spark renewed interest in the student-centered assessment practice. More...
2 avril 2019
2 avril 2019
Punishing Anonymity for Professors
By Colleen Flaherty. Franciscan U of Steubenville is seeking to block faculty members from talking about university matters anonymously to the press and to limit what they may otherwise discuss publicly. More...
2 avril 2019
One Discipline's Soaring Publishing Expectations
By Colleen Flaherty. It's not just you: sociology's publishing expectations have doubled in recent decades, by some measures, and that threatens research ingenuity, according to one study. More...
2 avril 2019
Miami Dade Adjuncts Form Union
By Colleen Flaherty. Adjunct instructors at Miami Dade College voted to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, 587 to 573, they announced Wednesday. The college now has the country’s largest adjunct union, according to SEIU. More...
2 avril 2019
Elon University Adjuncts Unionize
By Colleen Flaherty. Adjunct professors at Elon University voted to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, 112 to 68, the News & Record reported. More...
2 avril 2019
Political ‘Litmus Tests’ in Florida
By Colleen Flaherty. The bill, HB 839, passed a House panel last week, amid opposition from Democrats who expressed concern about how the survey data would be used. A similar bill has been proposed in the Florida Senate. More...
2 avril 2019
Expansion Plans Could Mean More Faculty Housing at Stanford
By Colleen Flaherty. Santa Clara County may require Stanford University to nearly quadruple its planned number of employee housing units to secure permission for a campus expansion, The Almanac reported. Stanford wants to build up to 2.3 million square feet of new academic space, 2,600 student beds and 550 units of housing for faculty and staff members. More...
2 avril 2019
Big Buyouts at U of Akron
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Akron will offer to buy out 47 percent of its faculty, according to Cleveland.com. The deal is 100 percent of 2019-20 base bay, paid out in two installments, with a separation date of May 2020. More...
2 avril 2019
Half of the Women in the Field
By Colleen Flaherty. Survey of economics association members finds 48 percent of women have been discriminated against on the basis of sex within the last 10 years. Findings on nonwhite, disabled and LGBTQ economists are concerning, too. More...
2 avril 2019
Grad Assistants Strike at U Illinois Chicago
By Colleen Flaherty. Graduate student assistants at the University of Illinois at Chicago went on strike Tuesday over stalled contract negotiations. “Despite being highly educated professionals providing skilled labor for a multibillion-dollar institution, [campus] grad workers live on the edge of poverty,” the American Federation of Teachers-affiliated graduate student union, Graduate Employees Organization, said in a statement. More...
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