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Does Search Committee Diversity Produce Results?
Having more women on committees that select academics for jobs does not increase the chances for female candidates and may actually do the opposite, according to a study of Italian and Spanish universities.
Extracurricular Criminal
Amid calls for his termination, Central Connecticut State suspends professor who's had skirmishes with the law -- even though none of the crimes and alleged crimes relate to teaching or publications. When professors break the law, what should a college do?
Opinion
We Look Like Professors, Too
Sara B. Pritchard, Adeline Koh and Michelle Moravec describe rationale behind new hashtag to remind the world of the diversity of faculty members.
Ending All-Male Panels
American Society for Microbiology shows that a scientific group with relatively few female speakers can change things dramatically in just a few years.
Too Old for Tenure
Getting tenure is never guaranteed. But two American U. professors say they don't know what -- other than their age -- could have counted against them in their recent tenure denials.
Opinion
Would It Be So Bad If We All Went Under?
Kate Blanchard wonders if what higher education truly needs is a fresh start -- even if that means the end of institutions that many revere.
Opinion
When Sexual Harassment Is a Campus Tradition
A faculty member recounts feeling that she couldn't complain about an event that humiliated her and other female professors, but was viewed as "good fun" by many others.
Milestone for Disability Studies
U of Toledo will start nation's first full undergraduate major in an interdisciplinary field that has taken off.