Academe Today Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Sign up for this newsletter | Today's News | Labor Unions By Lee Gardner Dining-hall workers have been walking the picket line for two weeks. The university, with a $35-billion endowment, has been walking a line of its own as concern grows over economic disparity. |
| Faculty By Sarah Brown After learning about four such cases at one institution, Patricia A. Matthew couldn’t believe that leaders there had failed to see they had a problem. So she gathered essays about the experiences of minority scholars on the tenure track. |
| Administration By Rebecca Koenig (The Chronicle of Philanthropy) The University of Virginia’s Jefferson Trust invites donors to give $100,000 each and then decide as a group how to spend the money to strengthen the student experience. |
| The Ticker The private New York college's Board of Trustees has hired a forensic accountant and an outside law firm to investigate "significant unmet financial obligations" that the trustees learned of only recently. |
Views | The Chronicle Review By Philip Alcabes Boomer faculty members' notions of tolerance don’t fit millennial students' experiences. |
| Lingua Franca A man who spells his name with five letters has divided world opinion. No, not that man, explains Bill Germano. |
Advice | First Person By Barbara Katz Rothman Its value may be limited, but there is no better way to test whether students have read the material. |
| Vitae By Sharrona Pearl That day in class, I learned how exhausting it must be to be a black student in America today. |
| Vitae By Karen Kelsky Now is not the time for monologuing about yourself and your interests. |
Job Opportunities | Multiple Positions - Office of Institutional Advancement, Texas Tech University
Texas, United States
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Tenure-Track Position in Kinesiology, Point Loma Nazarene University
California, United States
Multiple Education Faculty and Division Chair, Lewis-Clark State College
Idaho, United States
Tenure-Track Position in Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Massachusetts, United States
Assistant Professor in Theater Studies, Temple University
Pennsylvania, United States
Lead Systems Administrator, WVNET
West Virginia, United States
Positions in South Asian Religions, McGill University
Canada
Multiple Faculty Positions, St. Lawrence University
New York, United States
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