By Colleen Flaherty. A conservative professor is under fire for comparing -- facetiously, he says -- Judge Brett Kavanaugh's alleged actions to "spin the bottle," and for suggesting limiting judicial nominees to rapists. More...
1 novembre 2018
1 novembre 2018
Promotion Standards and Public Engagement
By Colleen Flaherty. A new study examined in Nature says that university guidelines on tenure and promotion still focus on publication metrics rather than professed values such as public engagement. More...
1 novembre 2018
Beyond the Numbers on Gender and Research
By Colleen Flaherty. Are we thinking about gender diversity in the sciences all wrong, or at least too simply? New paper proposes a multipronged approach to thinking about and encouraging this diversity, for the benefit of science as a whole. More...
1 novembre 2018
'Rigorous Inquiry and Respectful Debate'
By Colleen Flaherty. Colgate offers up its own statement on campus speech, arguing that it's not just what you say, it's how you say it. More...
1 novembre 2018
Keeping Cornell Multilingual
By Colleen Flaherty. Arts and sciences faculty sticks with a three-course-sequence foreign language requirement, even as other institutions shrink their language requirements. More...
1 novembre 2018
Columbia Postdocs Unionize
By Colleen Flaherty. Postdoctoral researchers and associate research scientists at Columbia University voted to form a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers by a 2-to-1 margin, they announced Thursday. Their contract would be the first for postdocs at any private institution. More...
1 novembre 2018
Northwestern Non-Tenure-Track Instructors Narrowly Vote Down Union
By Colleen Flaherty. Northwestern University’s non-tenure-track faculty members voted against forming a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, the university announced Tuesday. More...
1 novembre 2018
New International Graduate Enrollments Fall Again
By Colleen Flaherty. Report says international graduate enrollments were down for the second straight year last year, after a period of significant growth. Experts said it's hard to ignore the Trump factor. More...
1 novembre 2018
Promotion, While Off the Tenure Track
By Colleen Flaherty. Scores of full-time, non-tenure-track instructors were promoted last year under a recognition and reward system at Penn State. More...
1 novembre 2018
Women Ask Fewer Questions Than Men
By Colleen Flaherty. Women are 2.5 times less likely than men to ask questions in departmental academic seminars, based on a new study of 250 talks at 35 institutions in 10 countries. The study also considered survey responses from some 600 academics across fields in 20 countries. More...
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