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Tim’s Tips: Faculty Panel Faults Florida Atlantic on Academic Freedom
Faculty Panel Faults Florida Atlantic on Academic Freedom Inside Higher Education April 22, 2013 – 3:00am A faculty committee at Florida Atlantic University has found that the institution compromised academic freedom by banning the use of an exercise in which students were told to write “Jesus” on a piece of paper and to step on [...]
Tim’s Tips: Faculty Committee at Florida Atlantic U. Criticizes Ban on ‘Jesus’ Exercise
April 21, 2013 by Nick DeSantis The Chronicle of Higher Education Faculty Committee at Florida Atlantic U. Criticizes Ban on ‘Jesus’ Exercise A faculty committee at Florida Atlantic University has found that the institution compromised academic freedom when it banned a controversial classroom exercise that asked students to step on a piece of paper with [...]
Tim’s Tips: Jobs at Religious Colleges
Jobs at Religious Colleges Inside Higher Education April 17, 2013 – 3:00am By Melanie Springer Mock My first year of graduate school, I gave the worst advice possible to a peer applying for an assistant professor’s job at a college founded by my religious denomination, the Mennonites. Although my colleague knew nothing about the Mennonites, [...]
Tim’s Tips: Self-Fulfilling Professorial Politics
Self-Fulfilling Professorial Politics Inside Higher Education April 9, 2013 – 3:00am By Scott Jaschik Conspiracy theories abound when it comes to professors and politics. To hear some conservatives tell it, a liberal-dominated professoriate attempts to brainwash students and to keep out of the faculty club any who challenge leftist orthodoxy. Ph.D. programs in the humanities [...]
Tim’s Tips: Social Class of Origin Narrative Experience
Friday, February 10, 2012 Social Class of Origin Narrative Experience Will Barratt, Dan Boyle, Jason Bushnell, Melissa Michalek Instructions to facilitator We designed this experience for college students and it has been used effectively also with graduate students and non-college adults. Students in a remedial college course experienced difficulty telling their own stories and hearing how they [...]
Tim’s Tips: The New Faculty Minority
March 18, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education The New Faculty Minority Tenured professors fight to retain control as their numbers shrink By Robin Wilson New York The first order of business when arts-and-science professors at New York University gather each year is to decide whether their full-time colleagues who work off the tenure track [...]
Tim’s Tips: Creating Inclusive Classrooms
Creating Inclusive Classrooms Inside Higher Education March 17, 2013 – 10:34pm By Carleen Carey Carleen Carey is PhD candidate in Teacher Education at Michigan State University whose research explores how African American adolescents make meaning and construct identities through reading engagement in informal education spaces. You can follow her on twitter at @Carleen_C. In the [...]
Tim’s Tips: Boulder Hires Visiting Scholar on Conservative Thought
Boulder Hires Visiting Scholar of Conservative Thought Inside Higher Education March 14, 2013 – 3:00am The University of Colorado at Boulder on Wednesday announced the hiring of Steven Hayward as the first visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy. The position was created with $1 million in donations, and follows years of criticism of the [...]
Tim’s Tips: U. of Colorado at Boulder Names Steven Hayward Its First ‘Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought’
March 13, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education U. of Colorado at Boulder Names Steven Hayward Its First ‘Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought’ By Sydni Dunn Steven Hayward has been named the first “visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy” at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a position created with the intent of broadening [...]
Tim’s Tips: Conservative Scholar Denied New Trial in Bias Suit
Conservative Scholar Denied New Trial in Bias Suit Inside Higher Education March 11, 2013 – 3:00am A federal judge has denied a retrial to Teresa Wagner, the conservative scholar whose political bias claims against the University of Iowa were rejected last year by a jury, The Des Moines Register reported. Wagner said she was denied [...]
