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Academic Minute: Cliodynamic Models of History
In today’s Academic Minute, Peter Turchin, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut, discusses complex mathematical...
Mills College Adjuncts Vote to Form Union
Adjunct professors at Mills College voted to form a union affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, they announced Wednesday...
Adjunct Continues Hunger Strike After Hospital Visit
Mary-Faith Cerasoli, a New-York area adjunct professor of Spanish and Italian, visited the hospital Wednesday after a five-day hunger strike...
MLA Announces New Discipline Forums
The Modern Language Association announced this week a new way of organizing disciplines and information. Dozens of new "forum" categories...
U.S. Panel Advocates for Ethics in Neuroscience Research
Ethical considerations should be deeply integrated into neuroscience research and education, a federal panel of bioethicists said in a new...
Online Grows at Two-Year Colleges but Success Lags
Online course enrollment at California's community colleges has grown rapidly during the last decade, according to a new report from...
Illinois Board Hears From Adjunct With Controversial Past
James Kilgore, who is on the verge of losing an adjunct position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, got...
Dean Fired for Disagreeing With Administrators
Robert Buckingham was fired as dean of the public health school -- and banned from campus -- at the University...