By Colleen Flaherty. Two professors on different campuses used the N-word last week. One was suspended and one was backed by his institution, demonstrating academe's continually fraught relationship with the term. More...
24 février 2018
24 février 2018
Juilliard Reviewing U of Cincinnati's Harassment Findings
By Colleen Flaherty. The Juilliard School is reviewing an investigation that found one of its former instructors had engaged in “severe, persistent or pervasive” sexual harassment of students over two decades, when he was a professor of music at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.com reported. More...
24 février 2018
Calling Academe's Bluff
By Colleen Flaherty. Historian’s “quit lit” essay asks readers to consider what’s lost -- personally but especially in terms of disciplinary knowledge -- with so many scholars leaving a broken system behind. More...
24 février 2018
Questions About Sabbatical Denials at Utah Valley
By Colleen Flaherty. Professors at Utah Valley University are asking the institution for more transparency about how it assesses sabbatical applications in the wake of enrollment growth. In an open letter to administrators, 60 professors say that five of eight sabbatical applications from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences were rejected in January on the grounds that only one sabbatical could be granted per department due to resource constraints and enrollment increases. More...
24 février 2018
Yale Grad Union Withdraws 'Micro-Unit' Petition
By Colleen Flaherty. Yale University’s would-be graduate student union has withdrawn its petition to form a union affiliated with Unite Here from the National Labor Relations Board. Graduate students in eight Yale departments announced they'd voted to unionize as part of a novel “micro-unit” strategy last year, but Yale has challenged the validity of that approach, details of the election and the general notion that graduate students are employees entitled to collective bargaining. The union said in a statement that it withdrew its petition over concerns that the NLRB under President Trump is increasingly hostile to union interests. More...
24 février 2018
Ending a Course Over the N-Word
By Colleen Flaherty. Princeton professor who was criticized for using the word in a class on hate speech cancels the course. More...
24 février 2018
Realities of Trump-Era NLRB
By Colleen Flaherty. In a blow to the graduate student union movement on private campuses, three would-be unions withdraw their petitions from the National Labor Relations Board, saying they'll instead return to seeking voluntary recognition. More...
24 février 2018
‘Here We Are Again’
By Colleen Flaherty. Scholarly society for engineers and technologists is on blast once again for allegedly minimizing the work of female historians who write about bias against women in technology. More...
24 février 2018
Taking the Pulse of a Class
By Colleen Flaherty. New app seeks to shake up student ratings of instruction by promoting open-ended feedback in the moment, throughout the semester, so that the feedback becomes more constructive than punitive. More...
24 février 2018
MLA, AHA Meet at Same Time Next Year in Chicago
By Colleen Flaherty. The Modern Language Association and the American Historical Association typically have their annual meetings around the same time each year, in different cities. In 2019, they’ll both take place from Jan. 3-6 in Chicago. To promote what they’re calling “interdisciplinary collaboration,” the associations will honor each other’s attendee badges. More...
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