Alternatives to austerity?
Service staff in higher education have seen drastic layoffs and furloughs. Some have argued not all of those cuts were necessary.
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Service staff in higher education have seen drastic layoffs and furloughs. Some have argued not all of those cuts were necessary.
University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia’s University City. John Hopkins University and much of Baltimore city. The dichotomy and interdependence between a city and neighborhood that a university resides can often be summed up by the expression “town and gown” — there are the residents, and then there’s the academic population, and the two are distinct.
Faculty at Cornell University’s English Department have voted to change the department’s name so as to avoid the “conflation of English as a language and English as a nationality.”
Stephanie Irby Coard, a professor at University of North Carolina-Greensboro, claims that children are “racial, ethnic beings.”
Ed-tech start-up Engageli has raised $14.5 million to build a videoconferencing platform. Unlike Zoom, the platform has been purposefully designed with college and university faculty members and students in mind.
New guidance suggests UK universities could introduce Chatham House rule for seminars to protect recruits from countries with repressive governments
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wake Forest University this fall is offering a “racist and anti-racist uses of math and statistics class” in an effort to combat racism within the discipline of mathematics and the math department itself, according to the scholar who created it.
Donna Ford was a keynote speaker at the Texas A&M University at Commerce symposium called "What the Truth Sounds Like."
One of the nation’s most prestigious universities has agreed to pay nearly $1 million in back pay to female professors following allegations of pay discrimination.
A controversial Chinese national security law now has some American universities scrambling to protect their students, allowing some to submit work anonymously to evade law enforcement.