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Active Learning in the Age of Classroom Cellphones
Perhaps faculty members’ conflicting views reflect that academe is made up of people who hold different paradigms related to authority, writes Aubree Evans.
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Documenting Harassment in Astronomy
Survey data point to widespread problems, but also opportunities for astronomy to lead on improving the climate for women and minorities.
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How to Build Your Own Career Fair
It’s an excellent way for Ph.D.s and postdocs to articulate how their skills might add value to organizations that lie outside their traditional disciplinary areas, writes Robert D. Pearson.
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Navigating Harassment as a Young Black Femme
What steps, asks Gabi Jordan, can women and femmes of color take to care for themselves amid a culture that fosters harassment?
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On Anti-Transgender Microaggressions
Academics want to know and explore critically, writes Francis Walker, but the way in which that curiosity is expressed in relation to trans people is fundamentally unbalanced.
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Dude, Women Know Stuff
New paper explains effort to fight gender bias in political science, and, perhaps, in other disciplines as well.
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Small Wins: A Mothers’ Group in the Academy
When Tina Cheuk discovered firsthand that academe can still penalize women in their childbearing years, she founded a network for positive change.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
If you want a classroom where students can speak freely and assess dangerous ideas, then you can't be a helicopter professor -- whether you’re a liberal, conservative or something in between, writes Francis J. Beckwith.