The cover story of this month’s Atlantic magazine features Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s essay on “The Coddling of the American Mind.” Their thesis is simple: “A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense.” Unfortunately, their thesis…
You’re tenured or on the tenure-track, and you would like to help out your non-tenure-track colleagues, but you’re not sure how.
In an apparently unintentional proof of the old adage that the term “military intelligence” is an oxymoron, an assistant professor in the law department of the US Military Academy at West Point has argued that legal scholars critical of the war on terrorism represent a “treasonous” fifth column that should be attacked as enemy combatants. …
Below is a poster produced by the Rutgers University AAUP-AFT:
PubPeer, which “seeks to create an online community that uses the publication of scientific results as an opening for fruitful discussion among scientists,” has established The PubPeer Foundation “to help improve the quality of scientific research by enabling innovative approaches for community interaction.” According to Retraction Watch, “the commenting site has allowed for robust discussions…
What has been happening to our public schools is beginning to happen to our colleges. The tyranny of testing is filtering up. We involved in higher education need to be listening to the experiences of those involved in K-12, as the author of this post, Jamaal Bowman, is:
