By Elizabeth Redden. Editors of book series stop publishing with Springer Nature to protest its acquiescence to Chinese government censorship demands. More...
31 octobre 2018
31 octobre 2018
Report: Stephen Miller Pushed Ending Chinese Student Visas
By Elizabeth Redden. White House aide Stephen Miller urged President Trump to end all student visas for Chinese nationals before the proposal was abandoned over concerns about the economic and diplomatic impact, the Financial Times reported, citing four people familiar with the deliberations. More...
31 octobre 2018
British University Denies Promoting Prostitution
By Elizabeth Redden. The University of Brighton, in Britain, has sought to clarify that it is not promoting prostitution after a support organization for sex workers was given a booth at a fair for new students, the BBC reported. More...
31 octobre 2018
Controversy Over an ISIS Archive
By Elizabeth Redden. Middle East studies scholars are criticizing a decision by George Washington University to cooperate with The New York Times to create a public online archive of the “ISIS files,” internal Islamic State documents that were removed from Iraq by the newspaper and became the subject of the investigative article "The ISIS Files." The Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom previously criticized the newspaper's decision to remove and publicize the documents, arguing in a letter in May that the Times had no right to remove the documents and that the publication of documents containing personal information risked endangering the safety of individual Iraqis. More...
31 octobre 2018
Did German Catholic Church Get Too Much Control Over Research Study?
By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Team of scholars uncovered thousands of suspected abusers, but some say they would have found more if not for the limits they accepted on their work. More...31 octobre 2018
Higher Ed as Brazil Moves to the Right
By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. It was destined to be a presidential election campaign of dramatic outcomes. Celebrating 30 years of democracy, Brazilians took to the polls this week in their millions. But set against a background of economic crisis, mass unemployment and political scandal -- not to mention anger, which culminated in the front-runner being stabbed -- the results of the first round of voting left the Brazilian population more divided than ever. More...31 octobre 2018
Promoting Gender Equity or Sexism?
By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. University of Glasgow requires that female Ph.D. candidates have at least one woman on their doctoral examination panel. Some see move forcing “academic housework” on senior female academics. More...31 octobre 2018
Gag Placed on Indian Academics
By Ellie Bothwell for Times Higher Education. The University Grants Commission sent a notification to central universities earlier this year stating that the Central Civil Services (CCS) Conduct Rules of 1964 would apply to their staff and academics. More...31 octobre 2018
What the Job Market Is -- and Isn't
If you are reading this article, you are probably on the job market or know someone who is. The stress associated with looking for a job is unavoidable, but knowing what the market is -- and what it isn’t -- can go a long way toward mitigating some of that stress. More...31 octobre 2018
Sharing Diversity Work: Notes for White Faculty
Jessica Welburn Paige outlines what faculty members who are not members of underrepresented groups can do to become more engaged in diversity and inclusion efforts. More...
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