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  • SOURCE: New York Times
    9/29/2020

    Pandemic Imperils Promotions for Women in Academia

    As primary education has gone remote for another term, women professors with children argue that uneven distribution of domestic labor means their scholarly work is at a disadvantage compared to male and childless colleagues. "“I don’t need a clock extension,” Dr. Magdalena Osburn said. “I need an acknowledgment that this year is trash.”

  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    9/14/2020

    Is Academe Awash in Liberal Bias? Most People Think So. They're Wrong

    by Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson

    Available data do not support claims that university professors are extremely leftist, that a majority of students are being educated by left-wing professors, or that academe is biased against conservatives. So why do so many people believe these claims? Methodologically flawed studies and a long-running culture war.

  • SOURCE: Kaiser Health News
    7/23/2020

    Adjunct Professors: Jobs Are Low on Pay and Health Benefits With High COVID Risk

    If colleges move forward with in-person instruction for the coming semester, adjunct professors will likely play a greater role in teaching students in the classroom. But they often have little institutional support — in terms of health insurance or other benefits — even during this public health crisis.

  • SOURCE: Florida State University News
    6/22/2020

    Legendary FSU History Professor Jim Jones Dies

    "Jim used to laugh that students would approach him to say that he’d taught their parents, to which Jim would reply, ‘and how’s your grandmother/grandfather, whom I also taught?’"

  • SOURCE: Harvard Political Review
    5/29/2020

    Remaking Ethnic Studies

    Recognizing a rift between the words written on a chalkboard and the society that lies outside the classroom door, students are increasingly pushing for a course of study that allows them to learn about traditionally underrepresented figures and reckon with concepts of oppression and justice.

  • SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
    5/22/2020

    From Associate to Full Professor

    by Keisha N. Blain

    Although securing tenure and tenure-track jobs has received great attention lately, it is important that historians from underrepresented groups successfully pursue promotion to full professorship in their institutions to diversify leadership in the profession. 

  • SOURCE: San Fransisco Chronicle
    4/28/2020

    When Will Universities Reward Teaching?

    by Jonathan Zimmerman

    In 1990, Stanford president Donald Kennedy boldly admitted that his university had neglected teaching in favor of research. Universities have not heeded that warning.

  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    4/24/2020

    What If Colleges Don’t Reopen Until 2021?

    "John Thelin, a University of Kentucky professor and the author of the definitive 'History of American Higher Education,' told me that he’s never seen anything like the dual crisis colleges are facing right now."

  • SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    3/31/2020

    Don’t Forget About Graduate Students

    by Nadirah Farah Foley

    Our labor sustains colleges’ educational mission. Now it’s time for universities to sustain us.

  • SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
    3/6/2020

    Is Art History Becoming Too Woke?

    by Bendor Grosvenor

    After Yale made the decision to pull its course "Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to the Present," historian Bendor Grosvenor takes a look at the influence of political correctness on art history.