Academe

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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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• 12/20/2020
  

  Actually, It's Doctor....

  by Suzanne Chod

  A recent editorial asking Dr. Jill Biden to stop using the honorific is steeped in sexism and nostalgia for the unchallenged authority of white men. Ironically, her upcoming public role may help to further break down such hierarchies.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/28/2020
  

  Prominent Scholars Threaten to Boycott Colleges That Don’t Support Contingent Faculty During Pandemic

  Historians Nell Irvin Painter, Samuel Moyn, and Premilla Nadasen are early signatories of a letter aimed at pressuring universities to offer greater job security to adjunct, contingent, and term-contracted instructors, noting that institutions' pledges to delay tenure decisions for tenure-track faculty do not help the largest group of university faculty.