Phil Magness keeps attributing the growth in the percentage of part-time faculty to the rise of the for-profit universities. But his own chart seems to show that that impact has been less than one might expect. Notice that the percentage of part-time faculty at all institutions is 47%, only .4% higher than the total for…
Writing for the Athens Messenger, Sarah Guinn reports that Hocking College in southeastern Ohio has fired 13 faculty members for lack of adequate credentials. Here are the opening paragraphs of the article: “Between July and early August, Hocking College ‘released’ 13 full-time members of the faculty—some of whom had been there more than 20 years—citing…
University of Illinois Provost Ilesanmi Adesida will be resigning his position next week and returning to his faculty position in the College of Engineering. No reason was given in the announcement this afternoon to the campus by acting chancellor Barbara Wilson, but Adesida was one of Phyllis Wise’s most trusted subordinates, and his personal emails…
When I first heard of Alice Goffman’s On the Run a year or so ago, it didn’t pass my personal ‘smell test’ so I ignored it. After all, my early training was as a journalist and my idea of what constitutes publishable research and information is based in that professional ethos. I was a nightside…
Here is a small collection of recently published satiric items, largely from The Onion, on topics typically covered in other posts to this blog. Almost all of the items have been published just in this past year. “Sanders Shamelessly Pandering to Voters Who Want to Hear Truth” http://portside.org/2015-08-14/sanders-shamelessly-pandering-voters-who-want-hear-truth “Bernie Sanders Clearly in Pocket…
Here is a small collection of recently published satiric items, largely from The Onion, on topics typically covered in other posts to this blog. Almost all of the items have been published just in this past year. “College Board under Fire for SAT Printing Error” http://www.theonion.com/americanvoices/college-board-under-fire-sat-printing-error-50616 “Should Race Be Taken into Account in…
Here is a small collection of recently published satiric items, largely from The Onion, on topics typically covered in other posts to this blog. Almost all of the items have been published just in this past year. “Spring Break Safety Tips” http://www.theonion.com/graphic/spring-break-safety-tips-38177 “Pros and Cons of the Greek System” http://www.theonion.com/graphic/pros-and-cons-of-the-greek-system-38515 “College Rape…
The following map was created by Andy Kierz at the website Business Insider. Much of its content is not surprising: the most common jobs for immigrants on west coast are in agriculture, in the south housekeeping and construction. But note that in four states — Maine, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio — the most common job…
August 23, 2015 Dear President Killeen and Acting Chancellor Wilson, We the forty-one undersigned Executive Officers and campus leaders from departments and academic units across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign urge you to help end the crisis that has plagued our university for more than a year. It has increasingly become clear that the…