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To Use or Not to Use Virtual Private Networks
Requiring your students in China to stay connected to your classes through them is unethical, argues Bob Eckhart, who suggests some ways to avoid it.
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...
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.
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...
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.
Academic Minute: Spiritual Crusading
Today on the Academic Minute, Richard Allington, assistant professor of history at Eastern New Mexico University, explores how ordinary people...
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.