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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
(Photo by Jdidi Wassim / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Usually, economic declines lead to an increase in people entering colleges and universities, whether a working class person going.
As a public school kid all the way through and now a public university teacher, I am a bit resentful of how all the media attention for higher education focuses.
