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Collective Bargaining and Campus Bedrooms
University administration proposals dealing with personal relationships have had more to do with control over, and performance management of, faculty members than with concerns about equity and harassment.
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Hot for Teacher: Rethinking Education’s Sexual Harassment Policies
Sexual harassment policies assume that teachers have power and students don’t, argues Michelle Miller. Such policies risk outlawing consensual relationships that are “delicious, frightening, unruly” and just might reflect the excitement, even eroticism, of learning.
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Policing Professors
The nature of the current push to police the lives of professors and students provides a salutary lesson about unintended consequences.
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False allegations of sexual harassment: Misunderstandings and realities
Since sexual harassment can be in the eye of the beholder, only evidence that meets civil standards of proof, argues a university complaints investigator, can fairly decide what happened.
READ MOREEditorial Matters – The University as Network News
Media and higher education do not inhabit two solitudes. As underscored in this issue, media and academia co-exist, albeit somewhat uncomfortably. They […]
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Humour Matters – The dangers of LPS (Long-term Professor Syndrome)
I knew I was in trouble when I considered becoming a public intellectual. Maybe it was all those university seminars on media […]
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Cut and Paste Research
Research and shopping seem to be converging, as students go to their machines to do “research” at the web’s many info-malls.
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Journalists and Academics as Public Educators
Michelle Stack argues that journalism and academe have much in common, both being networks of knowledge that facilitate the noisy, messy process of democratic conversation.
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The Globalization of Higher Education Media: Where Is It Headed?
In an era of globalization, we need to improve global reporting, argues University World News Editor Karen MacGregor. Will this require more collaboration between higher education and higher education media?
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Making a Case for Media Engagement
Scholars seeking influence should consider the opportunities afforded by the mainstream news media. The voices of academic women are particularly needed.
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