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Dutch Education Minister Wants Academics to Have Weekends
She says academics lack the downtime that they need and wants to shift the way universities are supported.
New Presidents or Provosts: Concordia U Chicago, Drew U, Ferris State U, Highland CC, Ohio Wesleyan U, Portland State U, San Diego Miramar College, U of North Carolina School of the Arts, Walla Walla CC
Erik Ankerberg, associate vice president for academics and professor of English at Concordia University Chicago, in Illinois, has been promoted...
Survey Sheds Light on Sexual Violence in Canadian Higher Ed
Eleven percent of women students and 4 percent of men enrolled in a Canadian postsecondary institution experienced a sexual assault...
Academic Minute: Spiritual Crusading
Today on the Academic Minute, Richard Allington, assistant professor of history at Eastern New Mexico University, explores how ordinary people...
Professor Investigated for Participating in Scholar Strike
James Thomas, associate professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi, withheld his labor for two days as part of...
COVID-19 Roundup: Quarantines of All Types
Several universities impose campuswide stay-in-place orders, some of which are just "recommended," while other colleges limit movement of groups of students on campus and off.
Thinking Sociologically
COVID-19 is an invitation to think more sociologically. In today's Academic Minute, St. Joseph's College's Katrina Hoop discusses teaching her...
Wanted: Black Studies Scholars (Only)
University of Chicago English says it's only admitting Black studies Ph.D. candidates for 2021 admissions cycle, citing Black Lives Matter and the field's complicated history with regard to race.