Recently added articles from Academe:
WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES AFTER JANUARY 20, 2009
Jan 01, 2009; ... This issue of Academe coincides with the inauguration of the forty-fourth president of the United States, a historic occasion by any reckoning. And our concerns in the world of higher educaion in many ways echo the challenges to the nation at large. First, in this issue of Academe, we address ...
SAVE THE DATE FOR CAPITOL HILL DAY
Jan 01, 2009; ... Concerned about the future of higher education? Worried about shrinking financial support for our students? Bothered by diminished funding for research? Apprehensive about the imposition of a No-Child-LeftBehind scenario at your college or university? Uneasy with increased federal security ...
An Open Letter to Ninth Graders
Jan 01, 2009; ... Preparing our students, long before they become our students. Dear First-Year High School Students, I am one of the co-editors of What Is "Col1ege-Level" Writing?a 2006 collection of essays that focuses on the difference between high school writing and college-level writing ...
WHY GRADUATE STUDENTS REJECT THE FAST TRACK
Jan 01, 2009; ... A study of thousands of doctoral students shows that they want balanced lives. I could not have come in to graduate school more motivated to be a research-oriented professor. Now I feel that can only be a career possibility if I am willing to sacrifice having children. - Female ...
Diversity and Privilege
Jan 01, 2009; ... We need to understand how privilege works before we can make diversity work. Efforts to diversify university faculties began almost forty years ago. Since then, the number of white women faculty and faculty of color on U.S. campuses has grown slowly but steadily. At the same time, the ...