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
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 of actual history instead of
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 fr
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 h
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
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 if you expected it
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
Mercifully this has not happened at my employer, but colleges and universities around the country have cynically used COVID to shock doctrine the humanities out of existence or near so, as well as des