higher education

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/27/20
  

  The Future of the Academy at the Association of American Colleges and Universities

  At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, academics discussed how to rethink the academy and how to separate it from the university. Features quotes from Johann Neem, chair of the history department at Western Washington University.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Ross Douthat's Prescription for Academia Won't Solve the Real Problem

  by Ed Simon

  Humanities departments have shrunk, tenure track jobs have disappeared, and the academy has increasingly come to rely upon an exploited underclass of contingent, part-time faculty. The argument of who exactly is responsible for this state of affairs rages on, but New York Times columnist Ross Douthat insists he knows the answer.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/28/19
  

  What Tenured Faculty Could Do, if They Cared About Adjuncts

  by Herb Childress

  Here are 11 things they can do right now that would make a difference.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/19/19
  

  New Documents Illuminate The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

  by Asher Price

  Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  9/4/19
  

  Labor Organizing in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 1984-85 Yale Strike

  by Jacob Remes

  What might the labor movement still learn from the successes of the 1984-85 Yale strike of mostly-women clerical and technical workers?

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/5/19
  

  Adjunct Professors Share Salaries and Working Conditions in a New Spreadsheet Created by Erin Bartram

  The anonymous list, launched by historian Erin Bartram, has garnered about 250 entries so far. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/27/19
  

  Teaching in the Age of Me Too

  by Eric S. Yellin

  Eric S. Yellin was nervous about teaching a course based on a false rape accusation but found he was wrong to be so anxious -- and that the experience offered four lessons for instructors.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/12/19
  

  If You Call It History, You’ve Got to Do History’: Historians Chafe at a Video That Omitted Their University’s Whites-Only Origins

  Segregation is not mentioned in a nine-minute video about the institution’s 125-year history, posted last week on YouTube.

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  7/30/19
  

  New Studies Finds Professors Don't Discriminate Against Conservative Students

  by David M. Perry

  A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades.

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• 7/28/19
  

  (Re)-Claiming a Radical Evangelical Heritage at Christian Colleges

  by Louis B. Gallien, Jr.

  The recent controversies at my alma mater, Taylor University, over the invitation of Vice President Mike Pence’s to deliver their Commencement Address have illuminated the continued fissures at evangelical Christian colleges.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/19
  

  Historians Describe How The Use the Mueller Report When Teaching

  Educators are using the report from former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the classroom.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/22/19
  

  Academics Respond to Wall Street Journal Op Ed Calling Academia "Sweet Racket"

  When a misleading op-ed in The Wall Street Journal irks academics, it's time for a fact check on faculty work and pay.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/12/19
  

  Free Speech on Campus Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You

  by Lee C. Bollinger

  Norms about the First Amendment are evolving—but not in the way President Trump thinks.

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• 6/9/19
  

  Whatever Happened to an Affordable College Education?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Over the past 40 years, the average cost of attending a four-year college increased by over 150 percent for both public and private institutions.  

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/27/2019
  

  Billionaires can't fix college: Jim Sleeper on the real crisis in higher education

  by Jim Sleeper

  In this conversation between historian Matthew Frye Jacobson and Professor Jim Sleeper, they discuss how to reclaim college from market ideology

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• 5/26/19
  

  The Chinese Threat to American Higher Education

  by Mark S. Ferrara

  As President Trump’s nationalistic rhetoric and restrictive immigration policies have resulted in a 10 percent drop in international student enrollments on American campuses, China’s “Double First Class” plan aims to make forty-two of its universities into world-class institutions by 2050.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  5/20/19
  

  On the Recent Executive Order on"Free Inquiry" in Higher Education

  by James Grossman and Edward Liebow

  President Donald Trump’s executive order of March 21 on “free inquiry, transparency, and accountability in colleges and universities” is a textbook example of a classic negotiating ploy—misdirection. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/14/19
  

  Historians Argue That The History Major Won’t Go the Way of the Dodo

  Featuring Philip Balson, Olivia Daniels, Ethan Ehrenhaft, Max Minshull, and Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/15/19
  

  How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College

  A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/14/19
  

  Long considered a high honor, the valedictorian tradition faces an uncertain future

  by John R. Thelin

  Though the tradition goes back to colonial times, the validity of valedictorian honor is increasingly being called into question.