I and other faculty members of SPOC (formerly SLRP) met with the consulting group from the Art and Science group (website here: https://www.artsci.com ) yesterday. I learned about this initiative along with the rest of you in the last week, so it’s come on quickly. Because of that, I thought I’d take some time to report …
A colleague submitted the following for discussion: Girlfriend, Mother, Professor? By Carol Hay, New York Times, January 25, 2016 She writes: It’s a thoughtful piece about the ways in which women academics are expected to shoulder more (invisible) work on campus and are punished for not fitting into gender stereotypes as professors. This has certainly …
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(shared by Vance Ricks, recommended for posting by Lisa McLeod ) An interesting essay on how the current student protests are framed by the media and by their opponents: The Profound Emptiness of Resilience, by Parul Sehgal
Drone Studies (From Eric Mortensen, posted with permission)
I’m updating a post I made from about a month ago (see here) about the course releases and stipends we’re awarding. In some cases, people reported a different amount or type of compensation than was listed. Changes from the last version are highlighted in yellow. Also, in the case of course releases, several people reported earning them but …
Richie Zweigenhaft recommends this Inside Higher Ed article on an upcoming paper by Wake Forest business professor Douglas Beets studying BB&T’s grant program (which Guilford accepted) which requires the teaching of objectivist writer Ayn Rand’s work. Richie says: “I think some faculty and administrators might find this article, based on an article written by Douglas …
[Note: The table presented here has been updated. See this post for updated numbers] Clerk’s Committee has recently been looking into our committees and other service roles filled by faculty. See this post for an analysis of our current committee and service picture. We’ve put together the table below from information from the Dean’s office …
Dear friends, Inspired by the UN and EU’s call to nations to take in refugees and the Pope’s call to every parish in Europe to host one refugee family, we – Guilford students, faculty and administration – have begun mobilizing and hope to act with urgency as a community to host one refugee family on …
[From Richie Zweigenhaft, Gail Webster, and Maria Rosales] The three of us have been active for a number of years now in the Guilford chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). We met recently to talk about our plans for the coming year. Among the things we talked about was posting a message …
Clerk’s is taking up discussion of faculty service on committees and in other roles at Guilford, and I tried to put together an image of how it looks currently. The result is below. Each square on the diagram is one faculty position on a committee or in another role. Some of these positions count as …