The Ithaca College Contingent Faculty union voted at 88 percent to authorize a strike after 18 months of bargaining have failed to yield desired results. In a news release, the union.
by Laura Yeager In a previous essay entitled "The Academic Circle of Life & Excellent Usage of Commas," I wrote about my time in graduate school at Iowa State, where I.
by Jack Grove More than half of academics are employed on precarious contracts, claims a report by the University and College Union on the “hire-and-fire culture of insecure working” within.
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber (University of Toronto Press, 2016; $26.95) Reviewed by Christina Turner Symbols of the neoliberal.
by Madison Kircher The Senate will vote on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos. The way the numbers currently play out, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education is in a precarious.
by L.D. Burnett This past semester, one of my students emailed me to ask if I would write him a letter of recommendation for grad school. No, I told him.
