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Faculty & Staff
Survey Reveals Full-time Faculty Suffer Losses from COVID-19
The number of full-time faculty decreased at most U.S. colleges and universities and full-time faculty wages, adjusted for inflation, also decreased at most institutions, based on the latest Faculty Compensation Survey conducted by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
April 14, 2021
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Faculty & Staff
Report: All Faculty Types Suffer Job Losses in 2020-2021 Academic Year
The 2021 CUPA-HR Faculty in Higher Education Report found that all faculty types suffered job losses during the 2020-21 academic year. In terms of full-time faculty in specific departments, leisure and recreational activities and library science suffered the biggest job loss percentage, the report finds. As for sheer number, business, management and marketing and biological and biomedical sciences lost the most faculty, with a third to almost 50% of institutions reporting cuts in these departments.
April 8, 2021
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Faculty & Staff
Survey Shows Faculty More Positive About Online Learning Now Than Before Pandemic
A survey has shown that 51% of faculty are more positive about online learning today than before the COVID-19 pandemic. About 71% of faculty said their teaching in Fall 2020 was different and 47% expect those changes to remain after the pandemic. The data comes from the third edition of the Digital Learning Pulse Survey. [
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March 24, 2021
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Faculty & Staff
Harvard Faculty, Local Officials Support Legal Complaint Against Harvard Fossil Fuel Investment
More than 115 Harvard University faculty members and nine local elected officials have backed a legal complaint filed last week that is challenging the legality of Harvard’s fossil fuels investment, The Harvard Crimson reported. The March 15 complaint – filed by student group Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office – is [
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March 24, 2021
Harvard University
Faculty & Staff
UNC Greensboro’s Faculty Diversity Jumped in Five Years. How Did It Do It?
In the past five years alone, the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) has experienced a notable jump in faculty diversity for each ethnicity category, excluding White. How did it do it?
December 18, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
Purdue Gives Faculty and Staff $750 “Appreciation Awards” for In-Person Service
More than 15,000 Purdue University faculty, staff and graduate student staff will be getting $750 “appreciation awards” for keeping the West Lafayette campus open during COVID-19, Journal & Courier reported. Purdue President Mitch Daniels congratulated the employees in a letter sent last week, one day after the school moved to online learning for the rest [
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November 30, 2020
Purdue University
Faculty & Staff
Extend the Tenure Clock to Save Careers of Rising Academic Women
The halls of higher education already had a leaky pipeline for women in science and academia, but the coronavirus pandemic has taken an ax to the problem and busted it wide open.
November 30, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
Guilford College to Cut Academic Programs and More Faculty Members
After a review of its academic programs, Guilford College faces more budget cuts amid continued enrollment decline, according to News and Record. Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, five visiting professors and 47 staff members were laid off in July. This week, 9.5 staff positions were cut. Now, 30% of Guilford’s full-time faculty [
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November 9, 2020
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Students
Report Examines Value of a Postsecondary Degree From Students’ Perspective
To understand how college graduates perceive the overall value of a postsecondary degree, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education released the “2020 Gallup-Indiana Graduate Satisfaction Survey.”
October 8, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
Say Their Names, But Not the N-Word
The current reckoning about anti-Blackness in the United States is exposing the limits of solidarity. Millions of white and non-white people have marched and expressed support for Black Lives by saying the names of men and women brutally killed or shot in police custody. This powerful act of solidarity humanizes these victims while bearing witness to systemic racism. At the same time, faculty in some of our nation’s colleges and universities continue to defend the right to utter the N-word as part of their educational practice. This counterintuitive notion is not just tone-deaf to the national reckoning but harms the institutional culture, devalues the presence of Black faculty, staff and students, and compromises the moral credibility of the professoriate.
September 30, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
U of Minnesota Duluth Faculty Outline Ways School Can Address ‘Deep-Rooted Structures of Racism’
A group of faculty at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) wrote to leaders of the university system outlining ways they could address “deep-rooted structures of racism” and inequalities at the university,  reports the Duluth News Tribune. Pointing out that UMD staff are less diverse than the state of Minnesota, the letter — written by [
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September 3, 2020
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Students
A Brief History Lesson and Open Letter to the Nation’s Schoolchildren and College Students about White Male Power
Dear Generation Z Students, you are digital natives. So, this letter would better reach you by video, Instagram, Snapchat, maybe Twitter or a hashtag. But I need more letter characters and time than these platforms allow. Please bear with me as you read.
July 9, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
Minoritized Senior Faculty in Higher Education, Please Stand Up
Recently, the tenure denials of faculty such as Sibrina Collins at the College of Wooster, Lorgia García-Peña at Harvard University, Paul Harris and Tolu Odumosu at the University of Virginia, and Ashley Woodson at the University of Missouri at Columbia, have reignited a conversation about the role of bias in tenure and promotion processes. But also, the role of tenured senior faculty of color in not only mentoring their junior colleagues, but also working to disrupt and revise these processes. Reimagining these processes in a way that is grounded in equity and justice, we offer a few recommendations.
July 8, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
Princeton U Faculty: Acknowledge That Racism Thrives on Campus
More than 200 Princeton University faculty members have sent a letter to the institution’s leadership asking it to acknowledge “the way that anti-Black racism, and racism of any stripe, continue to thrive on its campus.” In a July 4 letter to university president Christopher Eisgruber and other leaders, the faculty members said racism is visible [
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July 7, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
Racism in Higher Education: Why HBCUs Are a Safe Choice in 2020
Colleges and universities across the nation are scrambling to address the Black Lives Matter protests resulting from the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless other Black Americans killed by law enforcement. Many of these institutional reactions have appeared as statements of support for the Black community, but have failed to come with actions to address systemic racism or police brutality on or near campuses. These failures strengthen the resolve of HBCUs as important sites for Black student support and safety.
June 17, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
U of Louisiana Monroe, Texas State U Fire Staff, Faculty for Racist Comments
The University of Louisiana Monroe said it has fired one faculty member and started the process to fire a second one for their “stunningly bigoted and racist language” on social media. Texas State University has fired a staffer for the same reason, reported the Houston Chronicle. At the University of Louisiana Monroe,  a letter of [
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June 11, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
Can Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Replicate Part of the HBCU Experience Through an Online Format?
It is important for HBCUs to recognize that online learning continues to be one the fastest growing sectors of higher education. Online learning has increasingly become a more widely accepted and viable option. The COVID-19 pandemic has only intensified the need for this option and has pushed institutions to adopt virtual instruction rapidly.
June 9, 2020
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Faculty & Staff
Summit Discusses Health and Safety Issues on College Campuses
College students’ mental health and well being in a time of pandemic and their safety when new rules on sexual assault investigations kick in Aug. 14, were the main issues discussed on Wednesday at the annual EVERFI  Campus Prevention Network Summit.
June 3, 2020
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