May 15, 2012, 2:40 pm

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Mark Bauerlein

Much of the commentary on the firing of Naomi Riley from The Chronicle has focused on the substance in her original post.  The main charge against her is that she condemned a field without even reading the evidence and that her follow-up was glib and evasive.  The main charge against the respondents is that they are mouthpieces of political correctness tossing irresponsible, ad hominem charges of racism….

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http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/insecurity-in-academia/46864?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

The Chronicle of Higher Education

May 15, 2012, 1:38 pm

Georgian Court University, a century-old Roman Catholic institution for women in Lakewood, N.J., announced today that it would admit men to all of its programs beginning in the fall of 2013. The college previously accepted men in its adult-education programs, to the extent that men constituted 11 percent of the overall enrollment, but now the college, following many other all-female Catholic colleges in recent decades, will become completely coeducational.

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http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/georgian-court-u-a-catholic-college-in-n-j-to-go-fully-coed/43254?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

May 15, 2012, 2:24 pm

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Student-loan-guarantee agencies working on behalf of the federal government are reaping millions of dollars in commissions and fees from taxpayers and defaulted borrowers, according to Bloomberg News. The Bloomberg article, which focuses on executive compensation and bonuses at the Educational Credit Management Corporation, a Minnesota-based nonprofit, challenges the government’s system for paying guarantors, pointing out that the agencies are more richly rewarded for collecting on defaults than for preventing them in the first place. Complaints have also been raised about the Education Department’s pay structure for debt collectors.

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http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/student-loan-guarantors-profit-from-borrowers-pain-report-says/43257?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

Inside Higher Education

May 8, 2012 – 10:00pm

By Janni Aragon

I sat on a pedagogy round-table at the International Studies Association in March, and one of the speakers referred to the high cost of emotional labor for the Women’s Studies instructor. Many heads nodded around the room. I do think that emotional labor does not discriminate and that many women faculty, faculty of color and other marginalized groups put in more time with emotional labor. Anecdotally, I perform as much or more emotional labor in Political Science compared to my years in Women’s Studies, but this might be influenced by the fact that I am an Undergraduate Advisor. Now, I know that some readers will agree and a small number might comment, “Show me the data.” Well, there is a genre of higher education literature dedicated to women in academe and other groups noting this phenomena. I am certainly not the first or last to speak to emotional labor….

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university-venus/emotional-labor-0

The Trouble With Black Studies

Inside Higher Education

May 9, 2012 – 3:00am

By Scott McLemee

For a week now, friends have been sending me links from a heated exchange over the status and value of black studies. It started among bloggers, then spilled over into Twitter, which always makes things better. I’m not going to rehash the debate, which, after all, is always the same. As with any other field, black studies (or African-American studies, or, in the most cosmopolitan variant, Africana studies) could only benefit from serious, tough-minded, and ruthlessly intelligent critique. I would be glad to live to see that happen….

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/05/09/putting-black-studies-debate-perspective-essay

Inside Higher Education

May 9, 2012 – 3:00am

By Mitch Smith

Too many students are failing their remedial math classes, and those who succeed often have little use for the advanced algebra on which those classes focus….

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/09/texas-community-colleges-reinvent-developmental-math

Inside Higher Education

May 9, 2012 – 3:00am

By Libby A. Nelson

At Davidson College, board members are preparing to spend the next several months studying a question of identity: whether a Presbyterian college needs a Presbyterian president….

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/09/davidson-reconsidering-requirement-president-be-presbyterian

Inside Higher Education

May 9, 2012 – 3:00am

By Kevin Kiley

$10,000 may not be able to buy as much as it used to, but Texas politicians and higher education administrators think that with a little experimentation it can buy a pretty good bachelor’s degree….

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/09/10000-degree-push-has-led-innovation-pricing-not-cost-control

The Chronicle of Higher Education

What Really Matters to Working Students

By Brian P. Hall

A student who had attended one of my developmental English courses only six times in 11 weeks stopped me in the hall before class to turn in a paper. I asked if she would be in class that day. No, she said, and gave me the excuse that I’ve heard most frequently in my three years of teaching at a metropolitan community college: “I have business to take care of.”

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http://chronicle.com/article/What-Really-Matters-to-Working/131843/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Inside Higher Education

May 14, 2012 – 5:19pm

Kris Olds

Some new reading on the complex, little understood, and much debated topic of ‘internationalization’ was published today by NAFSA. To access a PDF of this free 26 pp. report, written by Madeleine F. Green,  click on the cover page image below. A summary of the report is also available here on the NAFSA website. Madeleine F. Green is former vice president at American Council on Education (ACE), and current senior fellow at NAFSA and at the International Association of Universities (IAU). My thanks to Madeleine Green, as well as Bob Stableski of NAFSA, for permission to post a link to the report here.

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/globalhighered/new-report-measuring-and-assessing-internationalization