A judge has proposed firing Moulay Tidriri, an Iowa State University associate professor of mathematics, because of “unacceptable” performance in his teaching, research and service over a five-year period, according to a recommendation issued by an administrative law judge.
Turns out the Japanese have rubber rooms, too
But only for their salarymen:
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Money in politics is bad, right?
Over the last two years, the union has given $1.7 million to city council candidates—all Democrats. According to the National Institute for Money in State Politics, in 2012 (as in most years before and since), the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), largely a state-level extension of the UFT, was the Empire State’s biggest contributor to candidates and parties in state politics. Seventy-nine...
Hollaback video and good research methods
In effect, this was a research project, and it had an implicit research question (“Do conventionally attractive white women get verbally harassed in New York?”) and produced an answer: the video. However, in doing so without any reflection on its own method, it amply demonstrates the crucial substantive and political importance of research methods. I’ve taught “introduction to research methods”...
Professions by political ideology
Here is the distribution for academics:
There is no gender problem in academia
In the New York Times, of all places. Summary of research, as opposed to anecdotes.
Here is another report on their research, from the Association for Psychological Science:
GMAT now has separate rankings for Americans, because we are losers
Asia-Pacific students have shown a mastery of the quantitative portion of the four-part Graduate Management Admission Test. That has skewed mean test scores upward, and vexed U.S. students, whose results are looking increasingly poor in comparison. In response, admissions officers at U.S. schools are seeking new ways of measurement, to make U.S. students look better. To address those concerns...
Mathematical model explains why all hipsters look the same
Civil war between tenured faculty and adjuncts
The author is writing about law schools, but I view law schools as the canary in the coalmine for higher education. Good thing I am heavily funding my retirement account.
Is the field of psychology biased against Republicans?
The title is kind of click-baity, but the article is more thoughtful. The big takeaway is how our biases can affect our research, especially the peer review process.