Filter & Sort
Creating Compassionate Video-On and Attendance Policies
In his online courses, Zachary Nowak found that such policies helped keep attendance and student engagement in both lecture and discussion sections high.
Cameras On: Surveillance in the Time of COVID-19
Requiring students to let you inside their homes and private spaces can be culturally insensitive and ultimately racist, sexist, gendered and classist, write Margaret Finders and Joaquin Muñoz.
Censoring a Poet Isn’t the Answer
When it comes to which person convicted of a crime should have their work published or not, none of us are in a position to draw the lines between them, argues Adam Szetela.
Newly Tenured… at Colorado College, Lee, Linfield, Luther, Muhlenberg
Colorado College Richard Fernando Buxton, classics Lynne Gratz, environmental studies Olivia Hatton, molecular biology Jessica Hoel, economics and business Scott...
Not Just ‘A Place to Park Our Offspring’
Mount Holyoke pulls rug out from under faculty parents in announcing closure of its campus childcare center.
Tackling Racism in Textbook Publishing
New guidelines from textbook publisher Pearson aim to dismantle systemic racism in higher ed. Do they go far enough?
Opinion
Averting Catastrophe, or Not
Scott McLemee reviews Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds, by Cass R. Sunstein.
‘Tweaking’ Which Adjuncts Can Form Unions
Trump-appointed labor board majority potentially limits which private-institution adjuncts can form unions, based on whether or not they have meaningful -- not majority -- involvement in faculty governance bodies.