Being paid to sit in a/c
As Notorious Ph.D. wrote at the end of last week, most nine-month faculty do not get a vacation in summer but are just unemployed and often still have to work. Some such folks have plenty of resources to tide them over until the fall, others have a salary that is stretched out over twelve months, […]
Still mis-remembering Title IX
Two years ago, I pointed out that our modern discussion of Title IX focuses too much on athletics and ignores the broad sweep of changes brought by Title IX. So what does the White House blog mention when previewing its Title IX celebration? Athletics (in an entry written by United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice).
Conversation often works … where it’s tried
Today, ACTA‘s Anne Neal thanked the AAUP and AACU for welcoming her outreach efforts.Towards the end of the blog entry, she writes, ACTA also shares many faculty members’ legitimate concern about administrative bloat and about trustees who lack a sensitive understanding of the special protocols and values that underwrite the unique enterprise of higher education. […]
The world is complicated, part 752
So the Center for Research on Education Outcomes has a report on charter-school performance, the Center on Education Policy has released a report on student achievement trends, NAEP released art-education data, and the spin has begun. Missing from almost all the reporting: Statements about the extent of peer reviewing for any of these reports. I’m […]
Iran’s university students and faculty under threat
According to a Chronicle of Higher Education report late today, as well as Twitter reports and images/videos from bloggers who have been able to post, Iran’s universities are under attack, either physically (with property destroyed and some reports of student deaths) or political pressures. If the clerical authorities gave orders for the Revolutionary Guard or […]