This is the grave of Clark Kerr. Born in 1911 in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania, outside of Reading, Kerr grew up in a middle-class household. His father was a teacher (as were many in his family), as well as a farmer. He was a very intelligent...
higher education
The ridiculous attacks on Critical Race Theory are by people who have no idea what it is but have discovered a fun catchphrase to describe their outrage over the teaching.
People take part in a rally on April 29, 2015 at Union Square in New York, held in solidarity with demonstrators in Baltimore, Maryland demanding justice for an African-American man.
Sully and Bari are going to be all over this....... A teacher is disappointed with Gov. Kevin Stitt after one of her summer classes was canceled due to House Bill 1775, which bans educators from teaching students in K-12 certain concepts of race and racism.Melissa...
This article was published just as the North Carolina Board of Trustees rejected Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure for purely and nakedly political reasons. It's really important. Faculty once had meaningful power.
The higher education system is so broken. Between skyrocketing tuition and fees leading to massive student debt, a lack of state funding, the proletarianization of faculty including the rise of.
Among the many things that make no sense in the world of the academy is the letter of recommendation. What do they possibly show? I've been on the hiring side of job searches three times now and....every letter of recommendation is almost exactly the same....
There are some of us in the academy whose parents were not professors. But there's a whole whole lot whose parents were professors. Like, way more than you'd think, even.
One thing about the left is that there's often a tendency to replace policy with slogan. This is OK; it's not really up to people making demands to work out.
My only surprise here is that this guy was caught for rigging the numbers to help out his university's placement in the idiotic rankings that have come to dominate higher education conversations in this country. The former dean of Temple University’s business school fed false...
(Photo by Jdidi Wassim / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Mercifully this has not happened at my employer, but colleges and universities around the country have cynically used COVID.
It's very slowly starting to change, but older politicians and really older Americans generally just don't get the overwhelming burden of student loan debt, because they didn't experience it. When.