Filter & Sort
Law School Trigger Warnings?
Professor sets off debate by writing that student requests to avoid discussions on rape law are limiting important parts of legal education. Some faculty say that they don't avoid the topic, but handle discussions in different ways than they do other subjects.
Rethinking Everything … Literally
Working with a group of students who are linear thinkers by nature has forced Lee Burdette Williams to block that metaphor.
Second Thoughts
Study finds that female and minority Ph.D.s in biomedical fields are more likely than others to lose interest in faculty careers while earning their doctorates.
Students Praise Male Professors
Study finds gender of instructors influences evaluations they receive, even if they have fooled students (in an online course) about whether they are men or women.
Defining Harassment
Controversy leads Reed College to ask: Should colleges bar even consensual relationships between supervisors and their subordinates? Are student employees entitled to know about harassment findings in departments in which they work?
Opinion
The Innovation Agenda
Higher education is too important to be left up to administrators, business investors, and their government allies, writes Jeffrey J. Williams.
Black and Not Feeling Welcome
Back-to-back essays by two Vassar professors, one of them a former dean, renew a debate about treatment of minority faculty members.
Students Protest Over Ferguson
Many voice outrage over lack of an indictment.