Eight professors from the American College of the Building Arts have sued the school, its president and the head of its finance department, claiming the college owes them hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages. The civil lawsuit was filed April 12, 2010 in Charleston...
Philip Patterson drove more than two hours to support the Union of Teaching Faculty of Central Michigan University. Patterson, an Ypsilanti senior from Eastern Michigan University, is heavily involved with.
University of Michigan lecturers rallied in late-April to protest the non-reappointment of one of the Lecturers Employment Organization’s top officials, a move some lecturers are calling retaliation against the union..
by Kevin Carey College is the most complicated expensive purchase most people ever make. Houses are relatively easy—you can walk through ahead of time and hire an inspector to check the foundations for rot. Higher education, by contrast, is what economists call an “experiential good” –...
Offices are important. An office is the college instructor's home away from home; in fact, the instructor often spends more time at the office than at home. Offices can indicate.
by Kat Kiefer-Newman It was bound to happen in one of my classes. I knew that sooner or later I would be confronted by the fanatical devotion fans have for.
Obviously, I'm not a person who likes to say "no" or I wouldn't be teaching for four colleges in four Michigan counties this semester. And no, this is not the first semester I can say that, either. But, I try to avoid some of the extra...
My first experience with online learning was in July 2003 as a student. This was before the emergence of online social networking as we know it today. We were not.
This past week, there was an article in InsideHigherEd about a professor who found herself yanked from her biology classroom at Louisiana State University after students complained about her exams.
Over the years I have given a great deal of thought to grading, incentives, and fairness. One anecdote will illustrate what started me on the road to thinking about how often our grading systems can slip into the red zone of unfairness was an incident when...
