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Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Dean blasts elitism in law, legal ed, then resigns

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The dean of the law school where I work recently made two remarkable posts on LinkedIn  about what he called " myopic prestige-based ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Rescission of law dean offer prompts valid angst, but political ire over higher ed impunity is long time coming

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Waterman Hall, University of Arkansas Larry Miller via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 Legal academics is aflutter over the rescinding of an offer of t...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Belgian scholar finds fault on both sides of Atlantic, charts midway course for U.S.-EU data privacy

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KU Leuven Profs. Jan Wouters ,  Evelyne Terryn , and  Peggy Valcke ;  Sylvia Lissens ; me; KU Leuven Prof. Marieke Wyckaert , dissertation c...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Political scientists plan to convene in Vermont

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Burlington, Vermont teachandlearn via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The New England Political Science Association ( NEPSA ) will return its annual...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Academics plan campus free expression conference in Israel, but security concerns compel postponement

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Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv Davidi Vardi Pikiwiki Israel via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 An academic conference in Israel will conside...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Roberts publishes critique of U.S. government in crisis, endures harassment after criticizing accreditor

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Professor Alasdair Roberts , a friend and colleague at UMass Amherst Public Policy, recently published a new article, " The Crisis of ...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Transparency research conference issues CFP for '26

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The Ninth Global Conference on Transparency Research has issued its call for papers . The conference is set for June 24-26, 2026, at Carlet...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Student Shieh shakes up Brown with DOGE-like query, but universities hold fast in defense of admin 'bloat'

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University Hall and Van Wyckle Gates at Brown University Robert Barnett via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A conservative student journalist who r...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Book details knotty business of higher ed counsel

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By attorney Louis H. Guard and academic Joyce P. Jacobsen , All the Campus Lawyers (2024) is a compelling recent read for anyone intereste...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Mother of slain scholar publishes his account of academic workplace mobbing at UMass (Amherst)

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At the inaugural Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing at Niagara University last summer , easily the most moving and haunting presentati...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Remembering Judith Faust, social worker, teacher

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Judith Faust Judith Faust, instructor emerita at the School of Social Work at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), and an extra...
Friday, August 2, 2024

'Faculty are the least important people on a campus,' but don't worry; administrators will be all right

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Adaptation of Joe Loong via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 A recent item in The Chronicle of Higher Education ( subscription ), excerpted by Paul Ca...