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Tenure, Twitter and Taking Her Board to Task
Historian at U of Minnesota "celebrates" tenure with a scathing critique of her governing board's recent actions against a building-renaming proposal. She says she couldn't have risked these statements without job security.
The Untapped Potential of Making and Makerspaces
Charles M. Schweik describes four ways higher education could make much more of such educational opportunities.
Testing and Fasting
Muslim students who observe Ramadan have found themselves fasting during the most stressful time of the academic year. How are colleges helping them?
New Paths to Full Professor
WPI wants associate professors to understand what's possible, and offer options that go beyond traditional research.
Opinion
Office Hours: Why Students Need to Show Up
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar describes why, despite how drained she sometimes feels afterward, she actively encourages her students to meet with her.
The Need for a Recovery of the Humanities
To recover the trust of students and their families, Michael S. Roth writes, we must overcome our cultivated insularity.
Newly Tenured… at Babson, Kenyon, Moravian, St. Catherine, Wagner
Babson College Wiljeana Glover, technology, operations and information management Jonathan Sims, management Kenyon College Patrick Bottiger, history Pierre Dairon, French...
Harvard Won't Renew Leadership Post of Controversial Scholar
Students in residential college he has led said the law professor's decision to defend Harvey Weinstein was "trauma inducing." He also has a long record fighting for those incarcerated unfairly.