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Professors, students at UNC Chapel Hill demand transparency about journalist's tenure bid

Professors and students at UNC Chapel Hill demand to know why journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was not offered tenure. The university and its governing board still aren't saying much at all.

 
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Trustees at Florida Atlantic want to play a role in the faculty tenure process

Trustees at Florida Atlantic want to play a role -- maybe a big one -- in the faculty tenure process. The faculty union thinks that's unwarranted -- and dangerous.

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IUPUI creates a path to promotion and tenure based on DEI work

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis says it's putting its policies where its mouth is, approving new promotion and tenure options based on diversity, equity and inclusion work.

 
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Unions at Point Park and City College San Francisco fight for ways to save faculty jobs

Faculty unions at Point Park University and City College of San Francisco have found different means to the same end: preserving full-time faculty jobs threatened during COVID-19.

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Cypress College faces threats and allegations of failing to be antiracist

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The story behind an adjunct's suspension at Cypress College leads to threats to the adjunct, colleagues and the campus itself. A debate about cancel culture that went viral ultimately raises questions about who's getting canceled.

 
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New study says more abstract, jargony articles get cited less

New study says scholarly articles that are hard to read don't actually make the author sound smarter, and they get cited less. Authors hope their findings will encourage graduate programs to teach students how to write clearly.

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Federal report shines light on historically underrepresented groups in science

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New data highlight minorities and women in science, along with one particularly understudied group: scientists with disabilities.

 
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Multiple Black professors have resigned in recent years over racism

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Multiple Black academics have resigned, citing concerns about institutional racism, this academic year -- most recently at the University of Memphis.

 
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Insolvency declaration at Laurentian throws much into limbo

Laurentian University's financial insolvency leads to 110 faculty layoffs and grave questions about the future of the institution and its three federated universities -- including one of Canada's oldest Indigenous studies programs.

 
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An anthropological mystery involving Penn and Princeton is a scandal, too

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Weeks after the University of Pennsylvania announced repatriation plans for a controversial collection of skulls, a separate set of human remains is bringing scrutiny. Princeton University is implicated.

 
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