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17 décembre 2017

Report on the 'Assault on Science'

By Colleen Flaherty. The American Association of University Professors on Thursday released a report on National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom, detailing what the association describes as “troubling threats to academic freedom in the physical and natural sciences that have been exacerbated by the Trump administration’s hostility to science.” The report says that science has been increasingly politicized in the Trump era and questions, among other things, various Trump administration appointees to federal agencies founded in science, Congressional moves to curb research on climate and other topics, and President Trump’s various travel bans. More...

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17 décembre 2017

CUNY Faculty Sees Teaching Load Reduction

By Colleen Flaherty. The City University of New York and its faculty union, the Professional Staff Congress, reached an agreement on restructuring the full-time faculty workload to allow more time for individual work with students, advising, office hours and doing research, they announced Friday. More...

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17 décembre 2017

Monitoring Undergraduate STEM Education

By Colleen Flaherty. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, “Indicators for Monitoring Undergraduate STEM Education,” says that assessing quality and impact in STEM at the national level will require the collection of new data on changing student demographics, instructors’ use of evidence-based teaching approaches, student transfer patterns and more. More...

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17 décembre 2017

Scapegoating a Department?

By Colleen Flaherty. University of Nebraska professors want board to defend them against Republican politicians who, after incident with lecturer, have launched a series of salvos against English faculty members and the entire institution. More...

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17 décembre 2017

When Public Scholarship Is a Crime

By Colleen Flaherty. American professor in Denmark says she’s being targeted by immigration officials for doing what academics do: sharing her findings with the public. More...

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17 décembre 2017

References and Citations for All

By Colleen Flaherty. “Open citations now!” So concludes a new open letter to publishers from researchers who support making scholarly citations freely available, in the interest of better citation analysis. More...

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17 décembre 2017

A Call to Reform Undergraduate Education

By Colleen Flaherty. Major study by American Academy of Arts and Sciences seeks change in curriculum and assessment, commitment to funding public higher education, new ideas about the faculty role, and more. More...

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17 décembre 2017

Warning on Private Research Networks

By Colleen Flaherty. A new article in Healthcare Transformation warns academic medical centers of the potential risks -- financial, scientific and ethical -- involved in seeking more private investment in their research. In particular, the article looks at the risks posed by the innovation network model, in which an innovation benefactor, such as a foundation dedicated to finding cures for a particular disease, funds a limited number of academic institutions that collaborate on a share research agenda. More...

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17 décembre 2017

Granting Researchers Success

By Colleen Flaherty. The stakes for research grant applications are high in today’s competitive funding environment. Yet applications are often submitted to external funding agencies before they pass any kind of internal review process. More...

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17 décembre 2017

Who Changes Majors? (Not Who You Think)

By Doug Lederman. Graduates with math degrees fare well on the job market, but a greater share of students leave the major than any other, new federal data show. Are those students making a bad choice. More...

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