http://chronicle.com/section/Faculty/7/ News :: Faculty Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:10:57 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130800/ http://chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Cry-Foul-Over/130800/ Does the university really intend to claim 60 percent of professors' book royalties? A broadly written guide has set off an uproar.

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:55:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130839/ http://chronicle.com/article/Gender-Equity-on-Science/130839/ It may be 2050 before 50 percent of new hires are female and at least another 40 years before the actual faculty population is 50 percent women.

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130785/ http://chronicle.com/article/Union-Representation-at/130785/ The university's faculty union objects to a plan to preclude it from covering employees of a medical school being built with private funds.

]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:21:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130770/ http://chronicle.com/article/Northwestern-U-Professor/130770/ Mainstream Valentine's Day cards from the early 20th century often made lighthearted references to lynching, slavery, and impending violence.

]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130753/ http://chronicle.com/article/Slide-Show-Images-From-a/130753/ The Chronicle's Paul Basken spent a week in Antarctica this January, observing research and getting a glimpse of life in one of the remotest places on earth.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:02:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130730/ http://chronicle.com/article/Historians-Face-New-Pressure/130730/ Accurate data are important for persuading potential donors that a department merits support, but faculty often resist questions about whether what they do is worthwhile.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130722/ http://chronicle.com/article/Charles-Murray-Author-of-The/130722/ The author's newest work calls on the wealthy to come out of their gated communities and show the debauched working class how to live. Sociologists respond.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130735/ http://chronicle.com/article/Climate-Change-Studies-in/130735/ Studies of ice cores reveal secrets about temperature and carbon dioxide in the past. And some of the findings are not what scientists expect.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130727/ http://chronicle.com/article/Penguins-Put-Long-Term/130727/ Antarctica has seen recent declines in populations of the captivating waddlers, but the fluctuations don't always signal climate change.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130726/ http://chronicle.com/article/Antarctic-Researchers-Find/130726/ "Bundle up!" doesn't begin to address the necessary considerations.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130736/ http://chronicle.com/article/At-the-Cold-End-of-the-Earth/130736/ A big telescope and other devices at the South Pole may yield important discoveries about the universe's past and future.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130734/ http://chronicle.com/article/Antarcticas-Dry-Valleys-Give/130734/ The area is a stark laboratory where researchers study how water, dirt, and microbes interact.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130744/ http://chronicle.com/article/Where-Research-Keeps-the-Peace/130744/ American researchers are brought to the vast continent as part of a geopolitical strategy that dates to the 1940s.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130723/ http://chronicle.com/article/After-Navigating-the-MLA/130723/ Javier Jiménez said this final leg of his graduate-student journey had taught him about being astute in the outside world, something not taught in the classroom.

]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:35:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130721/ http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Texas-Regents-Adopt-Plan/130721/ The policy, which emphasizes remediation, requires tenured faculty to receive annual reviews and comprehensive post-tenure evaluations no less than once every six years.

]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130713/ http://chronicle.com/article/Widener-UProfessor-Who/130713/ The law professor, who will leave the university, was at odds with administrators over references he made in classroom discussions about the law school's dean being shot at.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:05:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130691/ http://chronicle.com/article/Scholar-Known-for-His-Studies/130691/ Robert W. Drago, former research director of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, was sentenced to 18 months' probation for the misdemeanor.

]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:55:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130690/ http://chronicle.com/article/AAUP-Loses-Major-Affiliate-at/130690/ The United University Professions at the State University of New York voted to end the relationship, citing complaints, including a recent leadership change.

]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130689/ http://chronicle.com/article/Instructor-Will-Highlight-Best/130689/ Even as the adjunct ranks grow, comprehensive national data about their salaries and benefits remain scarce. One instructor aims to remedy the problem.

]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130683/ http://chronicle.com/article/Harvard-Seeks-to-Jolt/130683/ A conference kicks off a $40-million project dedicated to improving student learning, but old habits die hard, participants say.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:50:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130664/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Professor-From-the-Big-City/130664/ Stephen Bloom, who teaches journalism at the University of Iowa, gave his students a real-life lesson in how not to improve town-gown relations.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130661/ http://chronicle.com/article/Recreating-Mars-as-a-Watery/130661/ A geophysicist in Colorado uses hard-won knowledge of Earth to map water, and possible habitats for ancient life, in the Martian ground.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130656/ http://chronicle.com/article/Kinsey-Scholars-Rx-for-Good/130656/ This Valentine's Day, some husbands may simply want hugs, says a sex expert at Indiana University.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130607/ http://chronicle.com/article/Chambers-of-Dissent-at-U-at/130607/ Many in the faculty union want the university to sever ties with two politically active business groups. But some see membership as part of civic engagement.

]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:55:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130600/ http://chronicle.com/article/As-Journal-Boycott-Grows/130600/ A protest by scholars, the suppliers of journal articles, could signal trouble for the publisher. The company says its pricing and the value it offers are misunderstood.

]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:15:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130501/ http://chronicle.com/article/Summit-on-Adjuncts-Yields/130501/ A draft document offered by leaders of the New Faculty Majority calls on colleges to make sweeping changes, and for adjuncts to have a voice in them.

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