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The End of Tenure in the US?
Tenure, RIP: What the Vanishing Status Means for the Future of Education is an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. While the tenured to nontenured faculty ratio is larger (than the average figures from the article) in the hard sciences, one cannot help asking whether in the years to come (and how soon) the tenure is indeed going to ( Read more... ) -
Rampant cheating hurts China's research ambitions
Ghostwriting, plagiarizing or faking results is so rampant in Chinese academia that some experts worry it could hinder China's efforts to become a leader in science.
Some excerpts from the Yahoo! News item linked above:
State-run media recently exulted over reports that China publishes more papers in international journals than any except the U.S. ( Read more... ) -
University professor suspended for comments made on Facebook
An East Stroudsburg University sociology professor has been suspended for venting her workplace frustration on her Facebook page. ( hat tip)
Fortunately, this particular story had a happy end but the overall trend ( hat tip: prof_yura ) brings about many unpleasant questions... -
Outsourcing College Paper Grading to India?!
Unfortunately it's not a late April's Fool joke.
The graders working for EduMetry, based in a Virginia suburb of Washington, are concentrated in India, Singapore, and Malaysia, along with some in the United States and elsewhere. They do their work online and communicate with professors via e-mail. The company advertises that its graders hold ( Read more... ) -
From Russia to Tenure
Я тут обнаружил прелюбопытнейшие мемуары, которые вполне можно было бы назвать From (Soviet) Russia to Tenure ;) Автор -- Валерий Сойфер.
