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….
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents overwhelmingly accredited a plan Thursday to put off quite a few tenured college members as a part of the closure of UW-Milwaukee’s School of Common Research. UW-Milwaukee directors have pointed to declining enrollment as the explanation to shutter the faculty, which suggests as many as 35 tenured professors…
Western Illinois College is shedding all 9 of its library college—eight of them tenured or on the tenure observe—as a part of wider efforts to offset a $22 million price range deficit pushed by rising operational prices and a 21 p.c enrollment drop since fall 2019. Whereas the college mentioned in an Aug. 9 information launch that…
The campus turmoil this previous spring over the Israeli-Palestinian battle has reminded presidents that they exist between their boards and the college, every with typically completely different expectations and goals. Such competing priorities typically put presidents in troublesome positions. However let’s alter this narrative. With many new presidential phrases having began in July, now’s the…
Xaver Neumeyer typically makes use of Harvard Enterprise Faculty case research in his programs centered on finance and innovation on the College of New Mexico’s enterprise faculty, however he discovered most of the case research had the identical downside: overlooking smaller, typically minority-owned entities. Within the fall, Neumeyer’s college students shall be tasked with both…
John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley is among the nice journey narratives. It’s an account of Steinbeck’s journey throughout the nation along with his canine Charley, in his truck with a camper van. Steinbeck got down to discover out “What are Individuals like right now?” He took his time and drove slowly. He stopped in small…
AlonzoDesign/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Photos Keep in mind the COVID-19 pandemic? It looks like a foolish query, however as social scientists who examine organizations, we all know that organizational routines, together with in increased schooling, are set as much as overlook crises and return to enterprise as standard. In increased schooling, forgetting the pandemic means we usually…
At a time marked by rising media polarization, with left- and right-leaning information companies utilizing their pulpits to advance partisan agendas and social media amplifying this fragmentation by offering a platform for unvetted opinions, it’s more and more difficult for the general public to navigate the cacophony of misinformation. On this context, the position of…
A number of years in the past, I learn a flier for a visiting speaker. The speaker had been invited to campus to lecture about pedagogy. The main focus of her speak: purple pens. Sure, purple pens, she was right here to argue, make college students uncomfortable. In response to the commercial, when a school…