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Tim’s Tips: Academic Minute: Prenatal Sexism
Academic Minute: Prenatal Sexism Inside Higher Education June 18, 2013 In today’s Academic Minute, Leah Lakdawala of Michigan State University reveals how technology is allowing sex discrimination to begin before birth. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/06/18/academic-minute-prenatal-sexism
Tim’s Tips: How I Cured My Imposter Syndrome
How I Cured My Imposter Syndrome June 16, 2013 – 8:24pm Inside Higher Education By Jacquelyn Gill This post is part of the Diversity in Science Blog Carnival on Imposter Syndrome, hosted by Scicurious over at Neurotic Physiology. Originally posted at The Contemplative Mammoth. When I started graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, I [...]
Tim’s Tips: Subprime Faculty?
Subprime Faculty? June 13, 2013 – 10:01pm Inside Higher Education By Lee Skallerup Bessette There’s a theme to this week’s posts, aren’t there? I find it fascinating that one the same day that my blogging colleague Matt Reed makes an argument against the characterization of (certain) college students as “subprime”, people are making the serious [...]
Tim’s Tips: Freedom of Speech LIves On
Freedom of Speech Lives On Inside Higher Education June 13, 2013 By Andrea Stagg “Holding Colleges Responsible” is the latest example in a slew of articles – many of them quoting the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education – that are meant to alarm anyone with a voice, and the author’s use of selective quotes [...]
Tim’s Tips: A Massive Burden
A Massive Burden Inside Higher Education June 13, 2013 By Samantha Harris Earlier this month, the federal Departments of Education and Justice reached an agreement with the University of Montana following an investigation into the university’s compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 — an agreement that the agencies have said should [...]
Tim’s Tips: The Scandal of the (Female) Evangelical Mind
June 9, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education The Scandal of the (Female) Evangelical Mind By Cristina Richie As women continue to make gains in academic leadership, those at evangelical Christian institutions are being left behind. Seminaries and other institutions that operate under a religious exemption from nondiscrimination laws have a long tradition of male-only [...]
Tim’s Tips: Diversity Offices Aren’t What They Used to Be
June 9, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education Diversity Offices Aren’t What They Used to Be By Ben Gose Ronald Taylor, a sociologist who became a top diversity officer at the University of Connecticut, had built one of the broadest campus-diversity offices in the country by 2008. UConn’s Office of Multicultural and International Affairs, a [...]
Tim’s Tips: Responding to Sexist Letter From Harvard Prof in 1961
Responding to Sexist Letter From Harvard Prof in 1961 Inside Higher Education June 10, 2013 Phyllis Richman has had a successful career in journalism, and she recently came across a letter she received from a Harvard University professor in 1961, when she was applying to a graduate program there. “[O]ur experience, even with brilliant students, [...]
Tim’s Tips: You Can’t Say That
You Can’t Say That Inside Higher Education June 10, 2013 By Scott Jaschik A Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Friday that Slippery Rock University was within its rights to dismiss a professor who had sexual discussions with students on a spring break he was leading…. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/10/appeals-court-upholds-dismissal-professor-who-talked-about-sex-students
Tim’s Tips: Family Friendly Comes at a Price
Family Friendly Comes at a Price June 6, 2013, 2:35 pm The Chronicle of Higher Education By Gabriela Montell From The Atlantic comes word of a recent study, published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, that suggests that some university policies designed to be family friendly may have a detrimental effect on the paychecks [...]
