Professors and employees members on the College of Notre Dame establish themselves with their T-shirts to reveal their help for first-generation learners. Over half of undergraduates nationally are first-generation school college students, in line with 2015–16 information from NASPA. Regardless of making up a good portion of learners, first-generation college students typically face obstacles in…
Practically 60 p.c of the roughly 1,100 respondents to an Inside Increased Ed/Hanover Analysis survey—carried out within the lead-up to final week’s election—strongly agreed that tutorial freedom in greater training is beneath menace. Throw in those that say they considerably agree it’s beneath menace, and the share grows to 91 p.c. Greater than 40 p.c stated their sense…
The College of Michigan College Senate voted final week to censure the Board of Regents for its response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations within the spring and its adoption of an institutional neutrality coverage with out college involvement. “The College Senate calls for, within the title of the values on which the US and its public universities…
Once I was instructed by the then-chair of the Faculty of Charleston English Division that I’d “performed nothing fallacious,” and but I might not be advancing to a finalist place for a tenure-track place, I knew he was telling the reality. Not solely had I performed nothing fallacious, however I’d performed numerous issues proper. I’d…
The Time Caps Working Group launched a survey on the coverage final week. Photograph illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Greater Ed | APCortizasJr/iStock/Getty Pictures | Time Caps Working Group In Harvard College’s undergraduate and Ph.D. applications, non-tenure-track academics can’t earn contract renewals indefinitely; as a substitute they’re pressured out after a set time period. The College…
A silent protest in Harvard’s fundamental library prompted a number of college suspensions. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Pictures Harvard College directors quickly barred a number of college members from the college’s fundamental library after greater than two dozen held a silent “study-in” to protest remedy of pupil demonstrators who had…
Of the greater than 1,100 school members throughout the U.S. who responded to a brand new Inside Greater Ed/Hanover Analysis survey, nearly none mentioned they’re sitting this presidential election out. Ninety-six p.c mentioned they plan to vote. And so they overwhelmingly intend to vote for Democrats. Seventy-eight p.c help Kamala Harris and operating mate Tim Walz, whereas…
Within the second full yr of the period of AI in schooling, educational leaders discover themselves in a novel time limit within the AI evolution. The dialog round AI has successfully shifted from “Ought to we?” to “How can we do it proper?” After grappling with that query for lots longer than two years, Grammarly…
School members have more and more voiced concern about having the talents to guide college students by controversial conversations. As a self-described professional in “all issues political on school campuses,” Nancy Thomas is not any stranger to battle and controversy. However over the previous yr—amid assaults on range, fairness and inclusion efforts; divisive protests; and…
In a public relations launch credited to the “Stanford College of Humanities and Sciences workers,” we’re instructed that “Stanford Inventive Writing revitalizes its imaginative and prescient amid rising demand.” The next textual content comprises a stage of spin and obfuscation that will take advantage of hardened political operative blush. I’ve ceased to be stunned by shortsighted, counterproductive issues…
It was unintentional, but it surely nonetheless damage. We have been within the automobile heading to a film. Since we’d moved to a brand new metropolis in a brand new state, our 13-year-old typically refused to be seen in public together with her cringey mother and father. However as we speak, she received into the…
To the editors, Unions are important to constructing robust, cohesive universities the place analysis and important thought thrive as a result of professors and college students are safe and guarded. Whereas negotiations are typically strained, they lead to larger consensus, enabling universities to meet their function of enhancing and transmitting information for generations to return….