academic labor 
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
2/17/2021
The Skinny on Teaching Evals and Bias
A metastudy of bias in student evaluations of college teachers shows that conformity to dominant gender roles is a condition for receiving good evaluations; students both favor profs with masculine traits and punish women for not performing femininity.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
2/9/2021
A Paradox: History Without Historians
by Jim Grossman
"We cannot heal this nation without accurately understanding its pathologies, which are by their very nature historical."
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2/7/2021
History (and Historians) Need a New Deal
by Shannan Clark
Only a program of direct public employment for historians, along with other academics, can lead to a vibrant future for the discipline in which access to careers is expanded, with greater diversity and equity. The history of the WPA cultural projects shows us the way.
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SOURCE: Slate
1/27/2021
How a Dead Professor Is Teaching a University Art History Class
"Will faculty essentially automate away their own jobs by recording lectures that can be recycled year after year?"
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/26/2020
History Jobs Stabilized Before COVID-19
The American Historical Association's pre-COVID numbers on the job market for history PhDs showed a small increase in the number of history faculty positions. It can be assumed that that stability is now gone.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/26/2021
Race on Campus: The Mental Burden of Minority Professors
Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz writes about mental health challenges facing minority faculty at predominantly white institutions, quoting historians Marcia Chatelain and Katrina Phillips.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/19/2021
A College Warned a Professor About Her Tweet. She Says That’s Retaliation
“I’m not sure Collin College has grasped how little control they legally have over faculty speech of private citizens,” L.D. Burnett tweeted. “They will learn.”
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
1/5/2021
Remote Reflections: On Being Present as a Parent and Teacher
by Quincy T. Mills
"Midmorning, I take my research files to my son’s oversized desk and work alongside him, which prevents our screens from being barriers. My presence is useful for both of us." Reflections on the interconnections of parenting and research work under COVID.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/4/2021
Irreplaceable: Illinois Supreme Court Says Community Colleges Can't Lay Off Faculty and Replace with Adjuncts
“To say that someone isn’t capable of earning seniority and therefore they don’t fall within the definition of someone who has less seniority doesn’t really make sense.”
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SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
12/8/2020
‘Our Last Refuge’: UM Faculty ‘Terrified’ As Officials Target Ombuds In Bid To Unmask Whistleblowers
After administrative decisions at the University of Mississippi were reported to be influenced by the preferences of donors, the administration has sought confidential records from the University Ombuds. Faculty fear retaliation.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
12/4/2020
‘Never Waste a Good Pandemic’
"Robert J. Ferry, associate professor of history and chair of Boulder’s Faculty Assembly, said that he hadn’t been involved in any discussions about the proposal thus far but that future consideration 'needs to have full involvement of the faculty'."
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
12/6/2020
Hit by COVID-19, Colleges Do the Unthinkable and Cut Tenure
College administrators have invoked financial exigency to make radical revisions to the tenure protections enjoyed by faculty and diminish the faculty role in campus governance. The American Association of University Professors calls it a crisis.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/5/2020
The Pandemic Is Dragging On. Professors Are Burning Out.
"For professors of all types, their responsibilities as teachers are causing many of them to feel pressed to meet the needs of the moment."
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/29/2020
Pandemic Imperils Promotions for Women in Academia
As primary education has gone remote for another term, women professors with children argue that uneven distribution of domestic labor means their scholarly work is at a disadvantage compared to male and childless colleagues. "“I don’t need a clock extension,” Dr. Magdalena Osburn said. “I need an acknowledgment that this year is trash.”
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9/27/2020
The Future of History in the Pandemic Age
by Michael Creswell
Historians need to consider and prepare for changes to the profession that will follow the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SOURCE: CNN
9/8/2020
Why We Started the #ScholarStrike
by Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon
As American history shows, there are times where the most powerful way that workers can force an issue or work for change is to withhold what others see as their most important feature: their labor.
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SOURCE: Forbes
9/6/2020
Scholar Strike Forming On Social Media May Be Omen Of Things To Come
A social-media organized effort by professors represents a new effort to connect academic work to activism for justice.
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SOURCE: Public Books
3/18/2020
College Worth Fighting For
by Ryan Boyd
Professors are in a class struggle, a real fight that cannot be won with critique alone.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/13/2020
Academe’s Coronavirus Shock Doctrine
by Anna Kornbluh
Faculty are already stretched thin, and now they are being asked to do more. They should hesitate before doing so.
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