Academe Today Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Sign up for this newsletter | Slavery Payback | Research By Marc Parry They are propelling a reckoning with slavery’s legacy on campuses, in cities, at companies. What Hilary Beckles is doing represents the next step. It’s the marshaling of scholarship for a political aim: payback. |
| Chronicle Series By Marc Parry Historians are asking new questions as America confronts its past. Download this booklet to read about their work, the conversations they’ve started, and what’s next in the movement for reparations. |
Todayâs News | Harassment in History By Julia Martinez An archivist uncovers the forgotten story of the women who spoke out against a college president who was ousted a century ago as a serial sexual harasser. |
| Technology By Andy Thomason An essay in The New York Times argued that professors should “scrutinize the big tech firms rather than stand by, waiting to be hired.” Some faculty members fired back. |
| Sexual Harassment By Sarah Brown The #WeKnowWhatYouDid movement has drawn attention and criticism for publicly naming students and others, and accusing them of rape. |
| Faculty By Nell Gluckman and Brock Read Revelations about the film producer’s apparent pattern of sexual misconduct are just a month old, but the reverberations have been deeply felt. Here are the latest updates, from Tuesday, on how they have touched academe. |
| Accountability By Andy Thomason A newspaper reported that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools was planning to look into conflicting statements by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A top official at the agency later told the university she was “sorry for any anxiety the article caused.” |
| Students By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz The university will conduct a review of fraternity and sorority life on its campus before determining what the chapters must do to be reinstated. |
| Government By Adam Harris A top Education Department official said on Tuesday that the agency would begin processing the backlog of 95,000 claims “very soon.” |
| Familiar Haunts By Chris Quintana Brett Talley, an alumnus whose nomination has generated controversy, has practiced in another realm as well: supernatural scholarship. |
Views | First Person By Paige Flanagan A librarian at a small college chronicles the ups and downs of transitioning in academe. |
| Lingua Franca When gender is knit into the very structure of language, says Lucy Ferriss, neutrality is nonexistent. |
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UF Professor Leads Bee Research
Professor Jamie Ellis works to advance bee research and innovations in beekeeping, and connects beekeepers around the state. |
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