Posted by Dan Galpin, Developer Advocate This blog post is part of a weekly series for #11WeeksOfAndroid. For each of the #11WeeksOfAndroid, we’re diving into key areas so you don’t miss anything. This week, we…
Colleges shouldn’t expect their employees to work in…
From classroom debates and lectures to student clubs and organizations to sports and other social gatherings, shared on-campus experiences form lasting memories, enrich lives and establish bonds between students and university staff that can last…
U of Missouri students protest diversity and inclusion…
Image: Students at the University of Missouri are confused and upset about pending changes to top staff positions at campus centers focused on supporting underrepresented groups on campus, including LGBTQ and Black students and survivors of…
Administrators can help students know how to get…
During the standard campus orientation, incoming students are looking forward to meeting new friends and scheduling classes for their very first semester. For hours on end, they participate in sessions, learning about university policy as…
New York University settles anti-Semitism case with Education…
In what’s believed to be the first case that’s come up since President Donald Trump’s executive order last year aimed at addressing anti-Semitism on campuses, the Education Department and New York University have settled a…
Workers at U of Kentucky concerned about COVID…
The University of Kentucky has had more employees become infected with COVID-19 since mid-August than any other workplace in Lexington, the Lexington Herald-Leader has reported. At 103 infections from Aug. 13 to Sept. 14, the university has…
Michigan State scraps in-person undergraduate classes for fall,…
Two more major research universities are walking back plans to resume in-person undergraduate instruction, continuing a rocky rollout for fall reopening plans across higher education. The University of Notre Dame announced Tuesday afternoon it will…
Tenure Is Dead: Pandemic Edition
Blog: Just Visiting Previously in this space, I have argued that tenure is dead. I said this because a majority of instructional faculty work without the protections of tenure. For my entire career I have been told that…
Two private colleges have distinctly different plans for…
Last week, two of America’s leading liberal arts colleges, Bowdoin and Middlebury, announced their fall reopening plans. It’s hard to imagine how, faced with the same facts, they could have come to such different conclusions…