Academe: Why Graduate Students Reject the Fast Track
A study of thousands of doctoral students shows that they want balanced lives.
I could not have come in to graduate school more motivated to be a research-oriented professor. Now I feel that can only be a career possibility if I am willing to sacrifice having children.
—Female Respondent, University of California Doctoral Student Career and Life Survey
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The Chronicle: Group Tells Public-College Presidents They May Be Personally Liable for Speech Codes
A group that advocates free speech on campuses has sent the top officials of 266 public colleges certified letters warning them that they might be sued as individuals if their institutions do not lift certain speech restrictions.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, based in Philadelphia, mailed the letters to college presidents and chancellors in mid-December in an effort to pressure their institutions to alter their speech policies voluntarily. The letters cite several court rulings that the group regards as prohibiting one or more speech policies in place at the colleges, and they argue that the administrators, having been apprised of such developments, will have difficulty claiming legal immunity from liability for their actions.
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Channelnewsasia.com: University professor accused of defaming Thai monarchy
Thai university professor accused of defaming Thai monarchy
BANGKOK: A university professor in Thailand is accusing Thai authorities of mounting a witch hunt against him. Giles Ji Ungpakorn has been accused of lese majeste or defaming the Thai monarchy.
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The Chronicle News Blog: U. of California Approves Enrollment Cuts and a Salary Freeze
San Francisco — Leaders at the University of California approved today a plan to cut freshman enrollment next year by 2,300 students and to freeze the salaries and compensation of top administrators.
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The Chronicle: Grad Students Think Twice About Jobs in Academe
When Joanna Doran thinks of what her life would be like as a tenure-track professor at a top research university, the images that come to mind give her pause.
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DC Examiner: UDC offering to take over Southeastern U., source says
The University of the District of Columbia has made a takeover offer for D.C.’s Southeastern University, The Examiner has learned.
UDC’s new president, Allen Sessoms, and its board chair, Jim Dyke, met with Southeastern’s board chair, J.R. Clark, about a month ago and offered to absorb Southeastern, a source with intimate knowledge of the talks told The Examiner.
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Inside Higher Ed: Saudi Arabia releases prof
Saudi Arabia released a noted political science and human rights activist, Matrook Al-Faleh, from prison over the weekend, without explaining his freedom or why he was held in a maximum security facility for nearly eight months, CNN reported. Al-Faleh, a professor at King Saud University, was detained shortly after he spoke out against prison conditions in the country. Several human rights and academic groups — including the American Political Science Association and the Middle East Studies Association — have been seeking his release. In 2004, the Middle East Studies Association gave Al-Faleh an academic freedom award for his work on behalf of academics and others in need of freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia.
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Inside Higher Ed: Faculty Pay ‘by Applause Meter’
It’s not like professors to think that they are so well compensated that it’s not worth hoping for a $10,000 bonus. But out of more than 2,000 faculty members at Texas A&M University’s main campus, only about 300 have agreed to vie for a bonus being offered for their teaching — and all they would need to do is have a survey distributed to their students.
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The Chronicle News Blog: SUNY-Stony Brook Settles With Female Postdoc Who Alleged Gender Bias
Sherry M.J. Towers, a former postdoctoral fellow in physics who said her faculty supervisor denied her maternity leave and told her she had to return to work within days of giving birth, in 2003, has settled her sex-discrimination lawsuit against the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The settlement was announced today by the American Association of University Women, which supported Ms. Towers in her lawsuit. The terms of the settlement are confidential, the association said.
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Education Policy Analysis Archives has just published its latest issue at
http://epaa.asu.edu/ and also at http://www.epaa.info/ojs/index.php/epaa. We
invite you to visit our web sites to review articles and items of interest.
The Segregation of American Teachers
Erica Frankenberg
University of California, Los Angeles
Frankenberg, E. (2009). The segregation of American teachers. Education
Policy Analysis Archives, 17(1). Retrieved [date] from
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v17n1/.
Abstract
Data from a unique new survey of over 1,000 teachers in K-12 public schools
across the country show that our teaching force is largely segregated. Using
this new dataset, I find that teachers of different races are teaching
students of very different racial composition, adding an extra dimension to
growing student racial segregation. White teachers comprise an overwhelming
majority of the nation’s teachers. Yet at the same time, they were the least
likely to have had much experience with racial diversity and remain
remarkably isolated. The typical African American teacher teaches in a
school were nearly three-fifths of students are from low-income families
while the average white teacher has only 35% of low-income students. Latino
and Asian teachers are in schools that educate more than twice the
proportion of English language learners as schools of white teachers.
Nonwhite teachers and teachers who teach in schools with high percentages of
minority or poor students are more likely to report that they are
contemplating switching schools or careers. The article concludes with
recommendations for diversifying the teaching force and ensuring that
schools serving students of all backgrounds have a racially integrated,
highly qualified faculty.
La segregación de los docentes Norte Americanos
Resumen
Los datos de una nueva encuesta realizada entre más de 1000 maestros de
escuelas públicas primarias y secundarias en todo el país señalan que la
profesión docente esta en gran medida segregada racialmente. Utilizando
este nuevo conjunto de datos, este artículo identifico que docentes de
diferentes razas enseñan a estudiantes de grupos raciales diferentes a los
de los docentes, lo que añade una dimensión extra a la cada vez mayor
segregación racial de los estudiantes. Profesores/as blancos/as son la
inmensa mayoría de los docentes del país. Sin embargo, este grupo, es el
que tenia las menores probabilidades de haber tenido experiencia con grupos
raciales diversos y siguen estando muy aislados. Un docente negro,
típicamente enseña en una escuela donde casi las tres quintas partes de
los estudiantes son de familias con bajos ingresos, mientras que en promedio
profesores blancos sólo tienen un 35% de estudiantes que provienen de
familias con bajos ingresos. Docentes latinos y asiáticos trabajan en
escuelas donde más del doble de estudiantes que están aprendiendo Inglés,
comparados con sus colegas blancos/as. Maestros y profesores no-blancos que
enseñan en las escuelas con altos porcentajes de minorías o los
estudiantes pobres tienen más probabilidades de informar de que están
contemplando cambiar de escuelas o de profesión. Este artículo concluye
con recomendaciones para aumentar la diversidad racial en la profesión
docente y para garantizar que las escuelas que prestan servicios a
estudiantes de todos los orígenes raciales tengan acceso a profesores
racialmente integrados y altamente calificados.
Palabras clave: distribución de profesores/as; diversidad de estudiantes;
diversidad (profesores); movilidad del profesorado.
Education Policy Analysis Archives is a refereed open-access journal
co-published by the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education at Arizona State
University and the College of Education at the University of South Florida.
More information about becoming a reviewer or submitting manuscripts is
available at http://epaa.info/ojs/.
Yours,
Sherman Dorn
University of South Florida
epaa-editor@shermandorn.com
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Vol 17, No 1 (2009)
Table of Contents
http://www.epaa.info/ojs/index.php/epaa/issue/view/EPAA17-01
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Globe and Mail: Academics tout wisdom of spending on decaying campus infrastructure
Patching roofs and fixing windows on Canadian campuses is an efficient way to pump money into all regions of the country and better prepare the next generation of workers, postsecondary leaders are telling politicians looking for quick fixes for the sagging economy.
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The Guardian: Generation crunch: young face crisis in hunt for work
• Graduates face crisis in jobs hunt
• Top companies sign up to rescue plan to provide internships
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Houston Chronicle: A&M plans to base bonuses on student input
COLLEGE STATION — The chancellor of the Texas A&M University System wants to give bonuses worth up to $10,000 to some instructors, but so far, many aren’t interested.
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The Guardian: Middle-class grip on professions ‘must end’
Too few working-class students become doctors and lawyers, according to Downing Street, which wants to consign the old-boy network to history
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Tallahassee Democrat: Bill Ayers talk at FSU drawing protests
He was Sarah Palin’s favorite punching bag.
Now Bill Ayers, a 1960s anti-war activist and co-founder of the early 1970s protest organization the Weather Underground, is raising the hackles of some conservatives in Tallahassee.
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Inside Higher Ed: The Gaza War… on North American Campuses
The military conflict that’s likely to spark campus protests in the coming weeks doesn’t involve U.S. forces in Iraq or Afghanistan. Rather, Israeli attacks on Hamas forces in Gaza have stirred sleeping campuses, and rallies and petition drives may gain momentum as more colleges resume full operations. The efforts, involving students and professors, supporters of Palestinians and Israelis, raise sensitive issues about whether academics are too quick or too slow to question Israel, what methods are appropriate for expressing opposition to another government’s actions, and why Israel’s actions are more likely to generate protests than outrages committed by other countries.
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howtheuniversityworks.com: Excellence in America: The Epidemiology of Wal-mart
Unless you’re currently afflicted by the GI bug that my family just survived, you’ll want to play this shockwave data visualization of, as LumpenProf puts it, “how quickly the Wal-Mart pandemic has spread from a single outbreak in Arkansas in 1962.”
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The Chronicle News Blog: California Universities to Freeze Top Administrator Salaries as Budget Crisis Worsens
San Francisco — California’s two public-university systems announced today that they would freeze the salaries of top administrators, one of many steps the systems are taking to cut costs during the state’s most severe fiscal crisis in decades.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Academic-Freedom Debate Prompts Offer to Unite in Fighting Speech Codes
Washington — Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, generally does not see eye-to-eye with critics of college campuses as hotbeds of political correctness and liberal indoctrination. When he debated Peter Wood, executive director of the National Association of Scholars, over the meaning of academic freedom, on Friday at the group’s annual conference, both predictably came out swinging.
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The Eagle: A&M bases bonus on student input
The head of the Texas A&M University System wants to give faculty members bonuses, but many are saying no thanks.
“I’ve never had so much trouble giving away a million dollars,” Chancellor Mike McKinney said, laughing.
That’s because he’s never spent it like this. McKinney plans to give up to $10,000 bonuses to instructors based on anonymous student evaluations.
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