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Tenure: Page 3
COVID-19
Universities Are Freezing Tenure Clocks. What Will That Mean for Junior Faculty of Color?
Over 240 universities are offering junior faculty extensions on their tenure clocks to ease the pressure as the coronavirus upends their research and routines. But for some faculty, gratitude is mixed with concerns about whether tenure track extensions are enough, if they sufficiently account for academia’s disparities or even risk exacerbating them without other supports.
COVID-19
With the Fire on High: The Writing Process in COVID-19
For me to be productive as a woman of color in academia, my writing needs to be driven by a connection to what is real, lived, and urgent. COVID-19 is not normal, and I argue should not be considered the “new” norm. Academia was already difficult and combined with COVID-19 will have lasting effects on the “productivity” of women of color for years to come.
Students
Stepping Away from the Brink: Part VII: Faculty and The Academy
Faculty, in conjunction with students, represent the core of an academic institution. Without either, colleges and universities don’t have a purpose. It is faculty who provides education, advice, and enlightenment to our next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, educators, and hopefully change-makers. However, as higher education continues to find itself on the brink, questions around the appropriate faculty structure remains critical to thinking of the future of institutions.
Tenure
Harvard University Students Host Sit-In, Demand Ethnic Studies Department
Around 50 Harvard University students hosted a sit-in last week demanding the establishment of an ethnic studies department on campus. The students occupied Harvard’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid shortly after the school’s early action admissions decisions were released. The students argued that the university needed to increase its commitment to diversity beyond race-conscious […]
Faculty & Staff
American University Receives $300,000 Grant to Increase Minority STEM Faculty
American University (AU) received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to increase the number of women and underrepresented minority faculty within the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field. The funding would go towards an analysis of university policies and procedures that affect equitable hiring. There will also be a focus on the […]
Tenure
Professors Sue Tufts University Over Required Fundraising
Eight professors at Tufts Medical School – who research cancer, addiction, autism and other topics – are suing the university, claiming the school is violating their tenure contracts, The Boston Globe reported. They’re alleging that since 2017, the school has required them to bring in large outside grants, making up at least 40 percent of […]
Tenure
Scholars Decry Discrimination in Tenure Review Process
Systemic bias faulted for fostering anti-diversity climate leading to tenure denials for a number of minority scholars.
Faculty & Staff
Can I Meet With You? Yet, Never Give You Credit for Your Labor
A couple months ago a woman of color colleague posted a pro tip on social media stating that if you want labor from women of color be sure to give credit where credit is due. I had a gut reaction as years of my own pathway through higher education ignited in my brain.
Faculty & Staff
Growing Proportion of Part-Time Faculty Portends Problems
The decline in tenured and tenure-track college and university faculty and the increase in nontenured full-time, part-time and adjunct instructors — a decades-long trend that shows no sign of slowing — is likely to have widespread impact across the higher education landscape.
Students
Corporate Model ‘Chipping Away’ at Essence of Academy: Five Issues
As universities nationwide are implementing the corporate model, faculty need to deal with issues of how the model is spreading to many aspects of university life and is negatively impacting students, especially first-generation students.
Tenure
American University Deals With Six Women’s Charges of Discrimination
Last summer, professor Carolyn Brown accused American University provost Dr. Scott A. Bass of racial and gender discrimination after he denied her tenure on contentious grounds. Brown is among six women who have accused the provost of discrimination in recent years.
Women
Why Colleges Must Fight the Wage Gap
The saying goes, “You should never wake a sleeping baby.” Today, the average wage gap between women and men is almost 80 cents to the dollar. If the “baby” is gender inequality in the workforce, the U.S. has done an exceptional job of keeping the baby asleep.
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A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics
American sport has always served as a platform for resistance and has been measured and critiqued by how it responds in critical moments of racial and social crises.
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