[ad_1] This posting is the third and final installment in a slightly fictitious tale about being an adjunct professor in the early 1990s. My mind obsessively future thinks as I fight off nausea and try to finish the lecture. Can you imagine throwing up on your students while teaching a class? What does that conversation …
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[ad_1] Every so often I read a piece that connects familiar dots in new ways. Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter With Kansas? was like that when it was published; Frank put together stuff I knew in ways I hadn’t and brought new clarity to old questions. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed did something similar for …
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[ad_1] In three decades as chief lobbyist for the American Council on Education, Terry W. Hartle had a front-row seat for just about every important federal policy discussion that affected colleges, their students and their employees. He retired this winter after 30 years as senior vice president for government and public affairs at ACE, the …
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[ad_1] Loyola University of New Orleans students are protesting their university’s decision to not retain the director of its African and African American Studies program. Scott Heath, that program’s director and the Jesuit institution’s only Black tenure-track English professor, said his contract is set to expire at the end of this academic year. “No one …
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[ad_1] In my last essay, I provided a financial forecast for the higher education sector. My assessment: colleges and universities face an incredibly challenging environment over the next three to five years. I predict declining enrollment, declining revenue, constraints on the ability to increase tuition and increasing costs. These factors will put many institutions in …
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[ad_1] A roof collapsed at an off-campus home near Ohio State University Saturday night. Fourteen people believed to be students were hospitalized, CNN reported. “It appears that the roof was overloaded with students, we’ve heard numbers between 15 and 45 students on a rooftop that was not designed to have anybody on it, and it …
[ad_1] The American Association of University Professors today issued a report condemning Emporia State University, in Kansas, for “unilaterally terminating the appointments of 30 tenured and tenure-track faculty members” and said that by doing so “the administration of Emporia State University violated AAUP-recommended standards on academic freedom and tenure.” The report also said, “The absence …
[ad_1] The state of Indiana has banned any state funds from going to the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University at Bloomington. The ban was in the final version of the budget approved by the Legislature on Friday, The Herald-Times reported. Republicans in the Legislature insisted on the ban because the Kinsey Institute studies sex and …
[ad_1] The Florida Legislature has agreed to spend a combined $2.8 million to develop a homegrown alternative to the AP courses students can take for college credit, Politico reported. And in a bill that Politico said was “poised to pass,” legislators are also expected to give students an option of an alternative to the SAT or …
[ad_1] U of Chicago Gets $100M Gift for Ph.D. Program in Business Scott Jaschik Mon, 05/01/2023 – 12:00 AM [ad_2] Source link
