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#Gamergate and Games Research
The Digital Games Research Association is targeted by #Gamergate supporters over claims that the organization is planning a feminist takeover of the video game industry.
'How to Be an Intellectual'
Author of new essay collection discusses the intellectual's role in the era of the "post-welfare state university."
A Second Chance?
A faculty report, obtained by Inside Higher Ed, endorses reappointment of adjunct James Kilgore, who was barred from further teaching at the U. of Illinois despite strong record -- after word spread of his past with Symbionese Liberation Army. Will trustees, under fire over academic freedom issues, accept the findings?
More Than the Boycott
A year after it voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions, American Studies Association is sticking to its guns. But it wants to broaden its public image, and demonstrate involvement in activism beyond Middle East.
(Non) Peer Review
Should a university president share concerns about a faculty study? Should such issues be raised after private emails from business leaders attacking the research?
A Boycott's 'Aftermath'
Panel criticizes American Studies Association's year-old academic boycott of Israel at body's annual meeting. And the panelists in turn are criticized.
'Class Not Dismissed'
Longtime professor Anthony Aveni talks about liberal arts, higher education and what he learned in 50 years of teaching.
Opinion
On Assessing Student Learning, Faculty Are Not the Enemy
Instead of criticizing professors as unhelpful recalcitrants, administrators should admit that assessment shapes what is taught and include the faculty as partners in creating the right kind of assessment, Jeffrey Alan Johnson argues.