Bad Female Academic tells the story of being a mother in academia.
Some advice on getting a job in philosophy.
Naomi Schaefer Riley excerpts her new book, The Faculty Lounges: and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For to argue that eliminating tenure has an economic upside.
It looks like the whole “are graduate students workers or students” and therefore “can they unionize” fight is taking an interesting turn with some rulings by the National Labor Relations Board.
John Marsh argues that pitting social services against education (which many state legislatures are doing) means that no matter which side “wins,” the same people lose.
A wave of retirements will decimate the federal government in the next five years, and Congress held hearings to figure out how to attract new graduates. (Personally, I’m skeptical of all predicted retirement waves that will supposedly create a vacuum eager young things can fill. Where have we heard that one before?)
Tenured Radical and Dean Dad weigh in on the question of fundraising priorities.
