Sexual harassment compromises graduate students’ safety
Researchers found over a third of female graduate students and a fifth of male graduate students on the campus of a large public university had experienced sexual harassment.
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On global campuses, academic freedom has its limits
As universities set up campuses globally, the blanket protections of academic freedom are becoming increasingly difficult to guarantee.
Inside academia: black professors are expected to ‘entertain’ while presenting
Academia suffers from a stunning lack of diversity. Only 6% of academics in higher education are black. What are some of the experiences of black faculty?
Reflections of a black female scholar: I know what it feels like to be invisible
A tenured professor reflects on how her race and gender make her invisible to many.
In defense of the great MOOC experiment
Is there an impatience to write the history of MOOCs? Have universities even given sufficient time to experiment with MOOCs?
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