faculty activism Archives

PERSPECTIVES: “(In) Beautifully Wrapped Verbiage Lurks a Poison Pill”

WVU faculty member: It's "a new mechanism to terminate any faculty, whether tenured or not."

by Future U/ January 24, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

From Inside Higher Education: “The union is requesting, among other things, a $61,000 minimum salary for non-tenure-track faculty and $77,000 …

by Future U/ January 17, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

Walter Davis has major issues with a far-right county commission.

by Future U/ January 14, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

‘Melina Abdullah, a professor at California State University, Los Angeles — where the debate was held — was forcibly removed …

by Future U/ August 27, 2022/ Public Higher Ed, Society/

Faculty-led effort leads to the establishment of a new department, the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity.

by Future U/ February 24, 2022/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"We profile eight scholars who were both researchers and activists and who saw the two as inseparable."

by Future U/ August 9, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Details from The Nation. Read more here.

by Future U/ December 19, 2020/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

“The abysmal state of race relations mentioned include a toilet paper noose that was hung on a black student’s dorm room …

by Future U/ May 2, 2020/ Public Higher Ed/

And that’s exactly the route taken by UNC professor Jay Smith. Academic fraud at UNC spanned years and enabled thousands …

by Future U/ April 4, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Professor BethAnn McLaughlin, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt, founded #MeTooSTEM. Read about her situation at Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ February 22, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

“My advisor argued that I needed to maybe begin toning it down because what I needed right now is science publications …

by Future U/ August 15, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

The rate is now about 5x higher than it was just a decade ago. Read more from The Wall Street …

by Future U/ May 22, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

At the University of Rochester, the answer is yes. Read more from Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ April 2, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

Kerry Ann Rockquemore describes how. Read her essay from Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ September 7, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

“It’s a wake-up call…. There’s a renewed sense of urgency and activism….,” Estela Bensimon, Univ. of So. Cal. Read more …

by Future U/ April 17, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/