Recently added articles from Academe:
RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION
Jul 01, 2008; Nelson, Cary ... The AAUP has always prided itself on serving all faculty nationwide. We do so because we believe academic freedom, shared governance, and job security together help give us a higher education system admired throughout the world. When faculty call us to report violations of the principles we have ...
FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS
Jul 01, 2008; Krebs, Paula M ... Class issues are among the most complicated for faculty and students in academe. In the September-October 2006 issue of Academe, we ran a cluster of articles about working-class faculty, students, and staff, and it attracted a good deal of attention. In this issue, three different faculty ...
Being Liberal
Jul 01, 2008; Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca ... Being Liberal What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education Michael Bérubé. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006 REVIEWED BY REBECCA ROPERS-HUILMAN The play Third, by feminist playwright Wendy Wasserstein, centers on a relationship between a ...
ACADEMICS AND GHOSTWRITERS?
Jul 01, 2008; Jurriaans, Kim-Jenna ... The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a report suggesting that academic researchers have lent their names to corporately funded research articles that they have not written. The report focuses on guest authorship and ghostwriting in publications related to the ...
RESEARCHERS PRESSURED TO ALTER FINDINGS
Jul 01, 2008; Jurriaans, Kim-Jenna ... In another case that casts doubt on the integrity of scientific research, a survey released by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in April states that scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been under external pressure to distort or veil their discoveries. The ...
CHARGES AGAINST ART PROFESSOR DISMISSED
Jul 01, 2008; Bradley, Gwendolyn ... A federal judge in April dis- missed as "insufficient on its face" a criminal indict- ment brought against Steven Kurtz, an art professor at the State University of New York College at Buffalo. The indictment, alleging mail and wire fraud, stemmed from an incident in which Robert Ferrell, a ...
EXCLUDED SCHOLAR GRANTED VISA
Jul 01, 2008; Bradley, Gwendolyn ... John (Yoannis) Milios, a professor of Marxist economic theory at the National Technical University of Athens, was granted a visa this spring to enter the United States after having been abruptly excluded from the country in 2006. Milios, who had earlier attended academic conferences in the ...
PART-TIME APPOINTMENTS LINKED TO DROPOUT RATES
Jul 01, 2008; Bradley, Gwendolyn ... First-year college students enrolled in introductory-level courses taught by part-time faculty are more likely to drop out of college, according to a study conducted by a researcher at North Carolina State University. The study examined four public universities and found that when students were ...
MICHIGAN COURT RULES AGAINST DOMESTIC-PARTNER BENEFITS
Jul 01, 2008; Bradley, Gwendolyn ... The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in May that public employers, including col- leges and universities, are prohibited from providing domestic-partner health-insurance benefits. The rul- ing came in a case where the court was asked to interpret an amend- ment to the Michigan state consti- tution ...
STATE BILLS THREATEN SCIENCE EDUCATION
Jul 01, 2008; Byrd, Nicole ... Academe has frequently reported on legislation purportedly aimed at "balancing" ideological perspectives in education. A recent crop of bills is opening a new front in the battle for academic freedom by focusing more narrowly on the teaching of science, particularly the teaching of politically ...
NEW GENERAL COUNSEL MARTHA WEST
Jul 01, 2008; Sweetman, Michelle N ... The AAUP is pleased to an- nounce that Martha S. West, professor of law emeritus at the University of California, Davis, will become the Association's gen- eral counsel starting August 1. The general counsel, who is appointed to a two-year term, remains in his or her position while serving the ...
2008 ELECTION RESULTS
Jul 01, 2008; Burns, Robin K ... Cary Nelson, a well-known scholar- activist, has been elected president of the AAUP for a second two-year term. Nelson is professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An author or editor of twenty-five books and the ...
AAUP FILES BRIEF IN SEXUAL-HARASSMENT CASE
Jul 01, 2008; Manicone, Nicolas M ... Imagine that you are the victim of sexual harassment or other discrimination in your workplace. Your employer learns of the incident and calls you to the human resources department to discuss it. The interviewer seems concerned and helpful; you are relieved that your employer is going to put an ...
First-Generation Students, Social Class, and Literacy
Jul 01, 2008; Snell, Theron P ... I work as an academic adviser and adjunct instructor at a small, public, four-year university that provides the usual spread of bachelor's degree programs, as well as several master's degrees. I have done similar work at a private liberal arts college and at a branch campus of a large state ...
How I Learned to Love Athletic Recruits
Jul 01, 2008; Sacken, Mike ... I don't think of myself as a logical candidate to help firstgeneration college athletes graduate. I'm fifty-nine and middle class, not a former athlete or a first-generation college graduate, and obviously not hip. More to the point, I'm white and Texas-born, and I attended segregated schools my ...
Maria's Rainbow
Jul 01, 2008; Fisher, Scott M ... Why do we promote false ideas about what a degree will do for our working-class students? Maria Gonzalez died last Thursday. Her body finally gave out after thirty years of joyful life, nonstop activity, and one year of cancer. She was a student in my evening English composition ...
The Academic Generation Gap
Jul 01, 2008; Dronzek, Anna ... The gap between full and assistant professors is more important than any generational difference. When I think about the generation gap in academe, two words come to mind: dinner meetings. I used to work at a small school where my small department met weekly, and every other week ...
Small Colleges and New Faculty Pay
Jul 01, 2008; Marthers, Paul; Parker, Jeff ... How do liberal arts colleges decide what to pay new faculty? Do liberal arts colleges act like research universities when they seek to appoint new faculty members? Evidence shows that research universities bid aggressively for talent, using discretionary salary policies to achieve a ...
The Twenty-First-Century Professoriate
Jul 01, 2008; Plater, William M ... WE NEED A NEW VISION IF WE WANT TO CREATE A POSITIVE FUTURE FOR THE FACULTY. Not long ago, most academic insiders felt confident in saying, "the faculty are the university." The faculty may still be the university, but who are the faculty? From public community colleges to ...
The Two Cultures of Academe
Jul 01, 2008; Mattson, Kevin; Bernt, Joseph ... Last year, we took a stroll to our university's library and requested the current salary report on all members of our university's community. Not a particularly enjoyable way to spend an afternoon, for sure. But we suspected something as we pored through notebooks of names, position titles, and ...