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Washington's Whitman Caps Tuition at 10% of Income
4+ hour, 52+ min ago (25+ words) Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. , announced Saturday that students will not pay more than 10 percent of their family's annual income in tuition....
IU Professor Investigated for Graphic About White Supremacy Loses Job
1+ week, 4+ day ago (32+ words) A lecturer at Indiana University who was investigated last year over a graphic about white supremacy learned this week that she would not be reappointed next year, according to Indiana Public Media....
Alt-Fac: Being "Alt-Ac" in the Academy (opinion)
1+ week, 6+ day ago (333+ words) The academic v. industry dichotomy obscures a whole range of meaningful "alt-fac" jobs within higher ed. In many ways, the type of work that I do today hearkens back to the original meaning of "alt-ac" as defined by Bethany Nowviskie more…...
Professor's Praise for Pro-Palestine Protestors Sparks Furor
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (653+ words) Republican officials and some Jewish groups criticized the speech as antisemitic and unnecessarily political. Derek Peterson spoke as chair of the Faculty Senate'a commencement speaker spot that chairs have filled since 2014, he said. As part of a commencement speech Saturday…...
Arizona President Refuses to Sign Shared Governance Memo
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (558+ words) Shared governance practices are written into Arizona state law, but Republican lawmakers have sought to change that. Garimella has not given the faculty a reason for refusing to sign on to shared governance. University of Arizona president Suresh Garimella has…...