In 2015, Columbia's College of Chicago's Part-Time Faculty Union (P-fac) dumped its union affiliation. Union president Diana Vallera alleged that, "P-fac faced a chronic lack of service from the umbrella.
by Dr. Cathryn van Kessel After Robert Bowers murdered 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, people are looking for explanations. Who would do such a thing? And why? The answers are almost.
by Tiffany Mitchell Patterson If young people are to engage in democracy and society, young people need to learn how to respectfully disagree. Yet, educators often find it challenging to lead discussions on.
by Sydney Johnson Stefan Stoll isn’t your typical hype man for education technology. “Edtech is about teaching more people with fewer resources,” he complains. And that bothers Stoll, who is.
by Corey Robin In the 1990s the philosopher and Arts & Letters Daily editor Dennis Dutton ran an annual Bad Writing contest in order to highlight turgid academic prose. If the contest.
by Debra Leigh Scott A full year has passed since I announced my departure from academic “adjunct” employment, listing my plans for reconstructing my life once I was no longer.
