academia

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  6/29/2020
  

  To Nichole Nelson Ph.D. ’20, Policy is ‘History in Action’

  The American Council of Learned Societies has named Nichole Nelson one of 22 new Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows for 2020.

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• SOURCE: Florida State University News
  6/22/2020
  

  Legendary FSU History Professor Jim Jones Dies

  "Jim used to laugh that students would approach him to say that he’d taught their parents, to which Jim would reply, ‘and how’s your grandmother/grandfather, whom I also taught?’"

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/10/2020
  

  Economics, Dominated by White Men, Is Roiled by Black Lives Matter

  The editor of a top academic journal is facing calls to resign after criticizing protesters as “flat earthers” for wanting to defund the police.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Political Review
  5/29/2020
  

  Remaking Ethnic Studies

  Recognizing a rift between the words written on a chalkboard and the society that lies outside the classroom door, students are increasingly pushing for a course of study that allows them to learn about traditionally underrepresented figures and reckon with concepts of oppression and justice.

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• SOURCE: Stanford Daily
  5/30/2020
  

  Law Professor Criticized After Reading Racial Slur In Class

  A Stanford Law School (SLS) professor is facing criticism from numerous student groups and instructors after saying the N-word in a class while quoting from historical source material. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/22/2020
  

  From Associate to Full Professor

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Although securing tenure and tenure-track jobs has received great attention lately, it is important that historians from underrepresented groups successfully pursue promotion to full professorship in their institutions to diversify leadership in the profession. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  5/25/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Is Threatening Diversity In Academia

  As budgets are stricken and mass layoffs become routine, scholars of all levels are fighting back to make sure diversity in academia won’t become collateral damage in the pandemic.

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• SOURCE: American Council of Learned Societies
  5/19/2020
  

  Historians Named Among Mellon/ACLS Community College Fellows

  Five history professors at two-year institutions have been recognized for their vital contributions to scholarship, teaching, and their communities.

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• SOURCE: San Fransisco Chronicle
  4/28/2020
  

  When Will Universities Reward Teaching?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  In 1990, Stanford president Donald Kennedy boldly admitted that his university had neglected teaching in favor of research. Universities have not heeded that warning.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/24/2020
  

  What If Colleges Don’t Reopen Until 2021?

  "John Thelin, a University of Kentucky professor and the author of the definitive 'History of American Higher Education,' told me that he’s never seen anything like the dual crisis colleges are facing right now."

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• SOURCE: The Mercury News
  4/21/2020
  

  Former Stanford President Donald Kennedy Dies of COVID-19

  The neurobiologist was appointed in 1980, served 12 years at helm.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/31/2020
  

  Don’t Forget About Graduate Students

  by Nadirah Farah Foley

  Our labor sustains colleges’ educational mission. Now it’s time for universities to sustain us.

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  3/6/2020
  

  Is Art History Becoming Too Woke?

  by Bendor Grosvenor

  After Yale made the decision to pull its course "Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to the Present," historian Bendor Grosvenor takes a look at the influence of political correctness on art history. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/6/2020
  

  The Bleak Job Landscape of Adjunctopia for Ph.D.s

  Ruthless labor exploitation? Generational betrayal? Understanding the job crisis in academia requires a look at recent history.

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• 3/1/2020
  

  For the love of history, let’s teach it better.

  by Laura Redford

  Let’s show students that studying the past is far more than memorizing. It can be thrilling, and can help them make more sense of the world in which they live.  

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• SOURCE: Daily Pennsylvanian
  2/19/20
  

  Institutional racism and minimal recognition: Inside Du Bois’ complicated history at Penn

  Du Bois, a writer, activist, and scholar, was known for being one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which continues to promote equal rights today.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  2/12/20
  

  AHA Publishes 2020 Jobs Report

  by Dylan Ruediger

  New History PhDs Awarded Continue to Decline as Academic Job Market Remains Flat

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/23/20
  

  What Happens When You Give Students Control of the Syllabus?

  Featuring Leslie Lindenauer, a history professor at Western Connecticut State University.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/27/20
  

  The Future of the Academy at the Association of American Colleges and Universities

  At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, academics discussed how to rethink the academy and how to separate it from the university. Features quotes from Johann Neem, chair of the history department at Western Washington University.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  1/21/20
  

  Rethinking How We Train Historians

  by Rita Chin

  What if we designed a graduate course that accounted for the conditions of the job market and history as a discipline? What if we taught students how to undertake the work of historical scholarship in a collaborative manner that more closely resembles the way labor is organized in today’s society, both inside and outside of academia?