Academe Today Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News Students By Karin Fischer Why colleges might look to the armed forces for guidance on serving low-income students. | Faculty By Peter Schmidt Georgia’s university system skipped a formal search in selecting a controversial state politician to run Kennesaw State University. Professors are fighting the move to keep it from happening again. |
Campus Safety By Shannon Najmabadi College housing’s student workers have long been relied on to resolve roommate disputes, but the heightened enforcement of the federal gender-equity law has made them key reporters of sexual violence. |
On Leadership By Sarah Brown Tim Trainor, interim president of the Roman Catholic institution in Maryland, says he needs to steady the ship, calm faculty fears, and rebuild trust after the tumultuous tenure of his predecessor. |
Views Special Reports By Rebecca Pope-Ruark Practices from the software-development world can be adapted to disrupt undergraduate education’s "seat time equals learning" model. | Career Counseling By Sean Gallagher The way companies evaluate job candidates is evolving, and the certifications that liberal-arts colleges offer must evolve as well. |
Lingua Franca Geoff Pullum tracks the chaos of competing misattributions of a famous abusive description of a musical instrument. |
Commentary By Brian Rosenberg He never stopped caring, and he never stopped being the most thoughtful and articulate voice on a host of issues central to our educational system and our civic life. |
Advice First Person By Alex Small How to approach faculty members who find your administrative buzzwords insufferable. |
Vitae By Ariel Sophia Bardi What an Everest climber taught me about surviving the post-Ph.D. blues. |
Job Opportunities Medicine Department Chair (Assistant/Associate Professor), University of Illinois College of Medicine Illinois, United States Humanities and Social Science Faculty Search, Washington University in St. Louis Missouri, United States Assistant Professor of Clinical Social Work, University of Nevada, Reno Nevada, United States Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, United States Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, United States Assistant Teaching Professor of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego California, United States Chair Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership, University of Memphis Tennessee, United States Historian of Pre-Colonial West Africa , The University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, United States
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