The FIRE This Time
…without explanation. Now the yen to censor is just as strong, but the major tactic is to tiptoe around the free speech issue by depicting the offending students and faculty…
…without explanation. Now the yen to censor is just as strong, but the major tactic is to tiptoe around the free speech issue by depicting the offending students and faculty…
…would have seemed, at first blush, to be an obvious academic freedom matter. But the CUNY faculty union, the Professional Staff Congress, had no interest in defending me: several signatories…
…Leavenworth) until it sank under the pressure and machinations of hostile faculty at Hamilton College had good reason for dismay over the prospects of traditionalist initiatives in higher education. Paquette…
…one-sided Education faculty. After work from FIRE and ACTA exposed NCATE’s wrongdoing, and amidst strong congressional pressure, NCATE backed down, and ungraciously agreed to abandon its requirement. “Critics incorrectly alleged,”…
…according to a graph in the Boston Globe, 6 percent of Emerson’s 177 full-time faculty members are black, slightly exceeding the 5.5 percent of full-time instructional faculty nationwide who are…
…deceit, such as not reporting the SAT scores of all freshmen or excluding adjunct faculty members from faculty descriptions. But others constitute honest – at least in the sense of…
One reason the academic side of the lacrosse case was so important is that the Group of 88—the Duke arts and sciences faculty members who, two weeks into the case,…
…the program “tracks and certifies a student’s participation in faculty-sponsored extracurricular and co-curricular activities. Activities must fall in one of seven areas: arts, culture and creativity; “transcultural/global” experiences, which include…
…Minor, Ph.D, the move makes sense, because “together we create a critical mass of faculty and students who have similar research interests and can work together.” Minor’s scholarship seems to…
…outcomes through consultation with faculty members. They now also require these same institutions to assess student learning outcomes in ways that enable faculty to use information to inform their teaching…
…sciences (probably because—sorry, Harvard faculty!–the male brain is structured that way), STEM majors are overwhelmingly male-dominated. Only 14 percent of female entering freshmen decide to major in STEM fields, compared…
…social engineering in the employment process. More importantly, it marks an incursion into the research-based nature of faculty hiring. It raises serious questions about academic freedom as well, and it…
…faculty to shun undergraduate students in order to work with graduate students in completing research that is costly to produce and often of trivial importance to society. They fail to…
…students, Danmell Ndonye, Rabinowitz announced that Hofstra administrators “will redouble our educational efforts and try to increase awareness among students, faculty, and staff of any potential signs of danger or…
…of us would probably be eager to skip, including “Commons, Alliance and Shared Resources,” “Politics of Terrorism” and “Tropical Ecology and the Environment.” The faculty gets high marks (“outstanding and…
…nothing to do with what’s supposed to be its central mission—ensuring the economic well-being of CUNY faculty and staff. Yet even given this record, the PSC’s latest initiative is off…
…substantially the behavior of Duke’s “activist” faculty violated professional norms. My original hope was that the blog could provide some context to the academic side of the case for the…
…$3000 for a replacement speaker. But then Thorp made a controversial decision about a response to an implied threat against the group and its faculty advisor. The students had chanted…
…trimmed. Adjunct faculty (or contingent faculty, as they are sometimes called) now account for at least half of teachers at colleges and universities, or about 800,000 people in all. These…
…Massad’s nomination for tenure from the public, or even its own faculty. Nevertheless, Provost Steele’s willingness to give the concerned professors a hearing suggests that the controversy is likely to…
…raise the proportion of alumni donors and inflating the number of fulltime faculty members. If Stanley Kaplan was at core a teacher, he was also a brilliant entrepreneur who understood…
Some faculty members in the University of California system plan to stage a walkout starting on Sept. 24—which also happens to be the first day of classes at several of…
…example, bursting at the seams, necessitating a desperate hunt for part-time faculty to teach all those new enrollees (as a cost-containment policy, only about a third of Tri-C’s instructors are…
…core curriculum is its ability to foster a ‘common conversation’ among students, connecting them more closely with faculty and with each other.” He has criticisms, though. One, he questions why…
…“Department of Organizing and Services,” which had discovered “a faculty band from Ohio performing original songs about the ironies of current academic life.” Perhaps Nelson should spend less time thinking…
…The idea with all the hiring of senior female faculty was to eliminate “gender inequity” on the UT-Austin faculty in one fell swoop (in contrast to the usual method of…
…press and the university; 3) the impact of these twin decisions on other university presses and publication venues; 4) the potential to encourage broader censorship of speech by faculty members…
…for most UC employees, layoffs, fewer faculty hires, fewer teaching assistants and elimination of a 2.5% increase in freshman enrollment that is a part of the Higher Education Compact between…
…University. I was sitting in my office when a student dropped by and identified himself as the chairman of the MSU College Republicans. They needed a faculty advisor. I had…
…bargaining rights to over 20,000 UW System faculty, academic staff, and research assistants. As of this writing, the faculty members of all UW System schools except UW-Madison have passed resolutions…