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Gender Inequality in Precarious Academic Work: Female Adjunct Professors in Italy

Gianluca De Angelis and Barbara Grüning International research studies and national reports point out two specific aspects which characterize women's academic careers. First, few women advance to senior academic roles. Second, although female academics progress in numbers equivalent to their male colleagues up to a...

Campuses are ground zero in debates about antisemitism − but that’s been true for 100 years

Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, right, walks with former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1910. Library of Congress Jonathan Krasner When Eliza arrived on her West Coast college campus in.

Some colleges have an answer for students questioning the value of higher ed: work-based learning

OLIVIA SANCHEZ PHILADELPHIA — Every weekday morning for six months, instead of taking college classes, 25-year-old Tamari Natelauri made the 45-minute drive from Philadelphia to Voorhees Township, New Jersey, to.

Hotlips Houlihan and Adjuncting

Ian Houlihan, we'll call him "Hotlips," just for fun, is a tenured faculty member at a Catholic University in the Northeast. In the February 23rd edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, he writes about his "foray into adjunct life." Where to begin? How about...

A Non-Answer to Faculty Support

By Melissa McDonald I'm starting a new job this semester, and so far, I am seeing good things in regards to faculty support, but that is not always the case..

The Next Higher Education Woe That Will Be Blamed on Adjuncts

By P.D. Lesko Over the course of the past three years, adjunct and part-time faculty have been systematically scape-goated for any number of problems plaguing the Academy. Students dropping out.

The Academic Meet Market: Job Fair Follies

By Kat Kiefer-Newman I went to a job fair recently. The CCC Registry (California Community Colleges Registry) just had one in L.A. and my dear friend Emma and I optimistically packed up our curriculum vitae with the best of intentions. Attitude is everything at these academic...