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Small Wins: A Mothers’ Group in the Academy

When Tina Cheuk discovered firsthand that academe can still penalize women in their childbearing years, she founded a network for positive change.

Stranger in a Strange Land

If you want a classroom where students can speak freely and assess dangerous ideas, then you can't be a helicopter professor -- whether you’re a liberal, conservative or something in between, writes Francis J. Beckwith.

Fighting to Keep Leaders Who Are Academics

UW Madison professors oppose legislative proposal to ban university system from requiring that campus chancellors and presidents have academic backgrounds.

Building Your Brand During a Career Transition

Finding your passion in one particular area and cultivating it more intensely is a useful strategy, advises Adriana Bankston.

Does Title IX Silence Sexual Assault Survivors?

Sexual assault takes away a victim’s power and agency, and to assist with their healing, universities need to affirm their agency and re-empower them, argues Cybill Rights.

Weaponizing Free Speech

By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray.

Student-Evaluated Out of Tenure

American U scholar says provost cherry-picked negative student ratings of her teaching to deny her a promotion

A Year With the New MLA

We finally have a handbook that has writers thinking more critically about citation than we ever have before, writes Peter Wayne Moe.