Faculty Pay – Is Higher Education Being “Devalued?”
Each year, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) puts out a study on faculty compensation. This year’s study takes on a somewhat alarmist tone. Its title, “The Devaluing of…
Each year, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) puts out a study on faculty compensation. This year’s study takes on a somewhat alarmist tone. Its title, “The Devaluing of…
…how will Charlotte do it from the bottom of a rather thin food chain? How will it get players from football-rich states like Georgia and Florida? It will hire a…
A few months ago, adjunct faculty (sometimes called contingent faculty) got a bad rap. A study reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education concluded that college students who take their…
…vague curriculum goals. Districts are completely free to choose their own textbooks and set their own reading lists and curriculum.” Consequently, by the time many students reach college, they are…
…of new spending. It includes: Tuition-free community college for two years, 75 percent funded by the federal government and 25 percent from the states Tuition-free four-year college for families earning…
…imposed on them by the public. Price-sensitive students and restrictive legislatures are running headlong into a massive university spending spree. “We will not trim our aspirations,” University of Kentucky president…
…the struggles for full inclusion in our democracy, that have been a crucial part of the nation’s history. Such study will help all students gain the intercultural and civic knowledge…
…“Arabic,” “Islam,” “Islamic,” or “Quran.” That seems fine until one notices that the same course-offerings page listed not even one class with the words “Jew,” “Christian,” “Hebrew,” “Torah,” or “Bible”…
…site managed by the Education and Social Science Library of the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. Be sure to read the library’s “Cautions and Controversy” page, which warns of the…
…web page explaining the Umstead Act recounts, “In 1989, the UNC-Chapel Hill campus store stopped selling crock-pots and other small appliances after local merchants complained…[but] in 1994, although local store…