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Professor on Leave for Distributing Anti-Trans Chocolate Bars
A professor at Madera Community College in California was reportedly suspended for handing out chocolate bars with packaging that mocked...
Avoiding Curricular Pitfalls of Study Abroad
If not designed carefully, study abroad programs risk reinforcing injustices, epistemic and otherwise, Liz Bucar writes.
Colleges Race to Hire and Build Amid AI ‘Gold Rush’
Cue the bulldozers to make room for hordes of new AI faculty. But computer scientists willing to teach are in short supply, and innovation’s trajectory is rarely predictable.
At Michigan, Getting an A Because Your Instructor’s On Strike
The University of Michigan graduate workers’ strike caused grading issues. Some department chairs have said they plan to give out A’s.
Astronomy Preprint Withdrawn Over a Co-Author’s Inclusion
An astronomy preprint’s lead author withdrew the paper and is removing one of the co-authors: Geoff Marcy, who resigned his...
At VCU, Even Less Job Security for Nontenured Faculty
Three out of five faculty members at Virginia Commonwealth are on “term” contracts. The university has stopped offering them three-year contracts.
Ohio’s Miami U Faculty Unionize
Miami University faculty members have voted 450 to 241 to unionize, in an election where nearly 90 percent of eligible...
Worthy Women
Amy Gais writes that her students judge women writers much more harshly than male writers—and considers what can be done about it.