Professional Issues
Sarah Kendzior’s April 11th, 2013 article in Aljazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/20134119156459616.html reports “76% of American university faculty are adjunct professors,” which means that most of them receive no benefits, including health care, make “an average of $2,700 per course,” and live below the poverty line. Most PhD graduates in English […]
“Budget protects learning and research,” claims the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. “A bad budget for the future of post-secondary education, research and job training,” says the Canadian Association of University Teachers. It’s hard not to conclude that institutional self-positioning has at least something to […]
The findings aren’t surprising, actually. According to an article in The Toronto Star, March 15, 2013, graduates from the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine) do have an easier time finding work immediately after the degree. But students from liberal arts programs like English Studies also fare […]
The CAUT Bulletin (http://www.cautbulletin.ca/) reports that the Edwin Mellen Press is suing McMaster’s Associate University Librarian Dale Askey for defamation, and this because he blogged what he understood to be a “professional opinion” about the Press’s general level of achievement in scholarly publishing. “The post, and comments following […]
Today, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Michael Bérubé considers the structural disconnect between PhD training in the humanities and the academic job market. “Graduate programs in the humanities,” he writes, “have been designed precisely to replenish the ranks of the professoriate; that is why they have such […]
