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Suspending the Rules for Faculty Layoffs
Citing COVID-19, Kansas's state governing board makes it much easier for institutions to suspend or terminate even tenured faculty members.
Snitch Switch
University of Florida faculty members say a new way for students to report professors who take their scheduled in-person courses online adds insult to injury.
Tenure Awarded at Washington U, Williams College
Washington University in St. Louis Opeolu M. Adeoye, emergency medicine David S. Ahn, economics Yin Cao, surgery Katherine C. Fuh...
Opinion
Why Flipped Classes Often Flop
Chandralekha Singh shares some lessons she learned from students taking such courses during the pandemic.
A Push for ‘Patriotic Education’
Trump wants to put his mark on U.S. history education via a new White House report. Actual historians say the report belongs in the trash.
Pivotal Year for Preprints
The pandemic has brought new public attention to non-peer-reviewed research, especially in medical fields.
Opinion
Creating Rich Transcripts for Career Activation
Institutions should be embarrassed by the standard transcripts they have been issuing, unchanged for a century, and students should demand better, argues Fred Cutler.
Saving Cantonese
Petition opposes Stanford's decision to eliminate its sole lecturer position in Cantonese. University founder Leland Stanford built his fortune on the labor of Cantonese-speaking railroad workers.