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How to Do a Better Job of Searching for Diversity
As the members of the search committee gather for the first time, their goal seems straightforward: create a shortlist of finalists for the tenure-track position in their department. It’s agreed that anyone receiving one or more "outstanding" votes will be considered for a phone interview, and the rest will be dropped. Alice, a recently hired associate professor, really likes one candidate, but the other members tell her they’ve met him and he’s "a disaster," with a "terrible personality." He’s eliminated.
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Clinton Health Scare Shows How Both Candidates Skirt Close Coverage
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the level of access the media should get from both presidential candidates.
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Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve
Adam Grant of the Wharton School pens an op-ed about grading students on a curve.
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Open Doors but Different Laws
Research about UAE wages for foreigners from Shing-Yi Wang of the Wharton School is cited.
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Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and Free Speech, Too
I didn’t get the University of Chicago welcome letter that made the rounds on the internet earlier this summer. I’m a senior this year, and the message from Jay Ellison, the dean of undergraduate students, was for the incoming class: Don’t expect trigger warnings or safe spaces here. The university, he said, was committed to free expression and would not shield students from ideas they disagreed with or found offensive. The implication was that students who support trigger warnings and safe spaces are narrow-minded, oversensitive and opposed to dialogue.
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As Lockout Continues at Long Island U., Students Report Meager Classroom Instruction
When Kiyonda Hester started the final year of her master’s program in social work, on Wednesday at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, an instructor began a course by acknowledging he was unqualified to teach it. The temporary instructor, who is an administrator, told the students that he had to be there so he wouldn’t be fired, Ms. Hester said. He took attendance and noted that the syllabus had been posted online. When students asked why the syllabus bore a date from another year, Ms.
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University of Oregon Will Rename Dorm That Honored a Professor Who Was a KKK Leader
The University of Oregon will rename a dormitory that honored a classics professor who was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, responding to student protesters who objected to the name. It was the latest university to confront its own history, after a wave of student protests last year amid racial tensions nationally. The University of Oregon’s board of trustees voted unanimously to change the name temporarily to Cedar Hall. President Michael Schill explained in a written statement:
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‘You Called Me a Liar’
In an escalating war of words, a student has filed a federal complaint against the University of Richmond and gone public with her allegations that officials mishandled her sexual assault complaint against a university athlete. Earlier this week, Cecilia Carreras, who said she was raped by the athlete in an off-campus house last year, published an essay on The Huffington Post’s contributor network detailing her experiences reporting the assault to campus officials.
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The Shame Game
Academics often say that the answer to objectionable speech is more speech -- not censorship. But a flier campaign targeting a professor and adviser to Donald Trump at Michigan State University has some questioning the limits of that logic. An unidentified person or group reportedly posted a number of fliers on campus about Joseph Guzman, an assistant professor of human resources and labor relations who teaches in the Chicano/Latino studies program. Entitled “Meet Your Professor!,” the fliers highlight that Guzman was recently named to Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council.
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Unmanageable Quagmire or Elegant Distinction?
On Aug. 23, the National Labor Relations Board issued its long-awaited decision in a case involving whether graduate teaching and research assistants at Columbia University could unionize, resulting in a significant decision that overruled existing precedent on the issue. In its ruling, a majority of the board concluded that student assistants employed by private institutions of higher education can be considered employees for the purposes of organizing and collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act.