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 ...
Reforming Doctoral Education in Europe
Jan 01, 2009; ... You think getting a common currency was hard for the European Union? Now the EU is trying for a common doctoral degree. Doctoral education in Europe has been undergoing a major transformation in the last decade. This transformation has occurred in response to several challenges: me ...
BUSINESS JOURNALISM EDUCATION IN A Changing China
Jan 01, 2009; ... How one Chinese university program is establishing links with the West. In fall 2007, Tsinghua University in Beijing and die Washington, D.C.-based International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) launched the Global Business Journalism Program at Tsinghua, one of China's most prestigious ...
Transforming the Culture of Higher Education in South Africa
Jan 01, 2009; ... Opening up the conversation about institutional culture and race in South African universities. Stumbling blocks remain on the road to a fully equitable culture in higher education in South Africa. Between 2003 and 2006, 1 conducted two research studies that probed the nature of the ...
Get Together to Write
Jan 01, 2009; ... In supporting one another's scholarship, these new faculty learned about more than writing and publishing. New faculty members are traditionally indoctrinated into a system that demands that they write incessandy and successfully publish their manuscripts. Yet they typically are not ...
Improve Your Teaching and Your Students' Learning
Jan 01, 2009; ... You can only tell whether your teaching is improving if you can be sure of what your students are learning. In my two decades of work on postsecondary instruction, I have been constantly reminded of areas where we as instructors could improve teaching and deepen student learning: how we ...
Can the Liberal Arts and Entrepreneurship Work Together?
Jan 01, 2009; ... Liberal arts courses aren't meeting students' needs, but we can't just turn them into business courses. Sequestered far from rough-and-tumble, real-world considerations, often viewed as too theoretical to be useful, a liberal arts education is associated with thinking and contemplation ...
ON EXTENDING THE PROBATIONARY PERIOD
Jan 01, 2009; ... There are good reasons for a seven-year maximum probationary period. A number of U.S. institutions of higher education are considering multiyear extensions of the widely accepted seven-year maximum probationary period for all tenure-track faculty. Such a substantial extension is to be ...
ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TENURE: OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY (ILLINOIS)1
Jan 01, 2009; ... This report concerns action taken in May 2007 by the administration of Olivet Nazarene University to remove Richard Colling, a tenured professor of biology with twenty-six years of service to the institution, from his usual teaching responsibilities for general biology and to prohibit the use of ...
ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TENURE: NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE
Jan 01, 2009; ... This report, prepared by the Association's staff, concerns the action taken by the administration of North Idaho College to deny any further course assignments to Ms. Jessica Bryan, an adjunct instructor of English, after she had taught part time at the institution for thirteen consecutive ...
ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TENURE: CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY (OHIO)1
Jan 01, 2009; ... This report concerns the action taken by the administration of Cedarville University in July 2007 to dismiss Professor David M. Hoffeditz from his tenured faculty position. I. Introduction and Institutional Context Cedarville University, a coeducational Baptist university of ...
Into the Apocalypse
Jan 01, 2009; ... Into the Apocalypse The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities Frank Donoghue. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008 REVIEWED BY CATHARINE R. STIMPSON Once more into the apocalypse, dear colleagues, once more into the apocalypse. The Last ...
CENSURED ADMINISTRATIONS
Jan 01, 2009; ... Investigations by the American Association of University Professors of the administrations of the institutions listed below show that, as evidenced by a past violation, they are not observing the generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure endorsed by this Association, the ...
A Woman's Work . . .
Jan 01, 2009; ... A Woman's Work . . . Unfinished Agendas: New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education Judith Glazer-Raymo, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 REVIEWED BY MELISSA MCDANIELS Unfinished Agendas challenges the reader both to appreciate gains women have ...
WHAT IF. . . ?
Jan 01, 2009; ... Posted on my office pegboard is a bumper sticker mat reads, "Why Is That?" expressing me scholarly exploration for understanding mat has defined my work for nearly thirty years. Inscribed in my consciousness is anomer query - what if? invoking the creative posing of possibilities for practice ...
BUTTON UP
Jan 01, 2009; ... I was using my standard syllabus for my seminar in the poetry of Langsten Hughes and Claude McKay during me fall 2008 election season. As serendipity would have it, me night Barack Obama won me presidency me poems my students were assigned to read included Hughes's "Children's Rhymes." Here is ...