higher education

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  3/26/2020
  

  Reviving the Original Purpose of Pass-Fail

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  We should use this moment to recapture some of the initial spirit of the option, argues Jonathan Zimmerman.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  3/18/2020
  

  This Isn’t Just an Experiment in Education. It’s a Test of Our Democracy, Too.

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  The new machines weren’t created for elites, who would always have access to the best kinds of education that America could offer. Technology was for everyone else.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  3/18/2020
  

  Will Shift to Remote Teaching Be Boon or Bane for Online Learning?

  Because of COVID-19, most professors and students suddenly find themselves forced to use technology as they teach and learn. A panel of experts explores whether that will help or hurt attitudes about online education.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/18/2020
  

  College Worth Fighting For

  by Ryan Boyd

  Professors are in a class struggle, a real fight that cannot be won with critique alone.

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• SOURCE: Brookings Institution
  3/16/2020
  

  Hurricane Katrina Provides Lessons about Closing Campuses During the Coronavirus Crisis

  by Andre M. Perry

  Students in New Orleans needed resources to return to normalcy. But when racial wealth gaps are the norm, a stumble can become a fall.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/13/2020
  

  Academe’s Coronavirus Shock Doctrine

  by Anna Kornbluh

  Faculty are already stretched thin, and now they are being asked to do more. They should hesitate before doing so.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/11/2020
  

  Why Shutting Down Colleges only Shifts the Coronavirus Burden onto Others

  by Ronin Rodkey and Cole Graber-Mitchell

  The local communities that the schools are sending thousands of students back to also largely don’t have the resources to deal with an outbreak.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/8/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Threatens to Upend Higher Ed. Here Are the Latest Developments

  We’ve compiled what you need to know — to be updated regularly — on the virus’s spread and its implications for higher ed.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/6/2020
  

  The Bleak Job Landscape of Adjunctopia for Ph.D.s

  Ruthless labor exploitation? Generational betrayal? Understanding the job crisis in academia requires a look at recent history.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/27/20
  

  The Future of the Academy at the Association of American Colleges and Universities

  At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, academics discussed how to rethink the academy and how to separate it from the university. Features quotes from Johann Neem, chair of the history department at Western Washington University.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Ross Douthat's Prescription for Academia Won't Solve the Real Problem

  by Ed Simon

  Humanities departments have shrunk, tenure track jobs have disappeared, and the academy has increasingly come to rely upon an exploited underclass of contingent, part-time faculty. The argument of who exactly is responsible for this state of affairs rages on, but New York Times columnist Ross Douthat insists he knows the answer.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/28/19
  

  What Tenured Faculty Could Do, if They Cared About Adjuncts

  by Herb Childress

  Here are 11 things they can do right now that would make a difference.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/19/19
  

  New Documents Illuminate The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

  by Asher Price

  Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  9/4/19
  

  Labor Organizing in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 1984-85 Yale Strike

  by Jacob Remes

  What might the labor movement still learn from the successes of the 1984-85 Yale strike of mostly-women clerical and technical workers?

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/5/19
  

  Adjunct Professors Share Salaries and Working Conditions in a New Spreadsheet Created by Erin Bartram

  The anonymous list, launched by historian Erin Bartram, has garnered about 250 entries so far. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/27/19
  

  Teaching in the Age of Me Too

  by Eric S. Yellin

  Eric S. Yellin was nervous about teaching a course based on a false rape accusation but found he was wrong to be so anxious -- and that the experience offered four lessons for instructors.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/12/19
  

  If You Call It History, You’ve Got to Do History’: Historians Chafe at a Video That Omitted Their University’s Whites-Only Origins

  Segregation is not mentioned in a nine-minute video about the institution’s 125-year history, posted last week on YouTube.

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  7/30/19
  

  New Studies Finds Professors Don't Discriminate Against Conservative Students

  by David M. Perry

  A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades.

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• 7/28/19
  

  (Re)-Claiming a Radical Evangelical Heritage at Christian Colleges

  by Louis B. Gallien, Jr.

  The recent controversies at my alma mater, Taylor University, over the invitation of Vice President Mike Pence’s to deliver their Commencement Address have illuminated the continued fissures at evangelical Christian colleges.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/19
  

  Historians Describe How The Use the Mueller Report When Teaching

  Educators are using the report from former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the classroom.