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When Sexual Harassment Is a Campus Tradition
A faculty member recounts feeling that she couldn't complain about an event that humiliated her and other female professors, but was viewed as "good fun" by many others.
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Observations of Professors: Tread Lightly
Student evaluations of teaching are suspect -- but increasing classroom observation of professors as an alternative has its own set of problems, write Jonathan Golding and Philipp Kraemer.
Milestone for Disability Studies
U of Toledo will start nation's first full undergraduate major in an interdisciplinary field that has taken off.
Chinese Communists Preferred
Two job ads for Kean U's campus in China state preference for Chinese Communist Party members, while the standard employment application requests information regarding political affiliation and personal details that are generally illegal to ask for under U.S. antidiscrimination law.
Breakthrough for Gay Christian Professors
Two Christian colleges change hiring rules to permit employment of faculty members who are in same-sex marriages.
Many Paths to Diversity
New report by American Council on Education argues many college efforts to attract minority students employ race-neutral strategies that aren't as controversial as those that receive considerable attention.
'Highly Irregular, Hostile and Isolating'
Massachusetts agency finds that Boston College retaliated against professor returning from leave he took while facing severe mental health issues.
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Time for a New Strategy
The erosion of faculty rights in Wisconsin shows that focusing on professors or academe alone won't work, and that it's time to talk about all employees and employers, writes Christopher Newfield.