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The article examines how university research might overlook practical outcomes despite significant funding and potential for commercial success. Topics discussed include the development of life-saving innovations, the role of federal funding in research, and the commercialization of academic projects.

The article discusses how ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence language model, has raised concerns and challenges regarding academic writing and student learning. It discusses the capabilities of ChatGPT in generating essays and explores the implications for students, instructors, and the educational process. It delves into the significance of writing in academia and the effort it requires, while raising questions about grading, incentives, and the role of instructors in student learning.

The article discusses the significance of students visiting professors during office hours and how these interactions can positively influence their academic and career paths. It explores why some students avoid office hours and shares efforts by professors to enhance the accessibility and benefits of these sessions, particularly for underrepresented students. It is further reported that research is also underway to improve office hour practices across different disciplines.

The article offers information on the need for academics leaving academia to overcome their academic identity and cultivate versatile skills. Topics discussed include the growing trend of humanities academics transitioning out of higher education; often after long teaching careers, and the analogy drawn with medical school graduates who face limited prospects in their field; and may need to explore alternative career paths to manage student debt.

The article presents the discussion on "teaching professor," being an increasingly common faculty position at large universities including passionate about teaching and science communication.

Features "The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib," a compilation of reports on the use of torture in the campaign against terrorism, edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel. Purpose of the compilation of the report; Information on how the report spread from copy shops to bookstores; Charges faced by several professors for their alleged involvement with the torture memorandum; Opinion of the authors on the possible effects of the practice of torture on the U.S.

The article focuses on improving the peer review process in academia by analyzing a year's worth of reviews to understand how academics evaluate each other's work. Topics include the challenges of peer review as an under-taught skill, the growing demand for reviewers amid an increasing number of journals and Ph.D. graduates, and the varying levels of feedback provided by reviewers, with suggestions for enhancing clarity and effectiveness in the review process.

The article examines how college leaders aim to minimize legal challenges in sports by de-emphasizing athletics, enhancing student governance, and integrating sports with academics. Topics covered include the development of guidelines to prevent excessive control by coaches, empowering student-athlete involvement in decision-making, and aligning athletic participation with educational goals.

The article discusses the decline in reading comprehension skills among college students professors are facing. It explores several reasons for this decline, including changes in teaching methods, and the ubiquity of social media.It explores several reasons behind this decline, including less emphasis on reading skills development in high school; the ubiquity of smartphones and social media leading to fragmented reading habits; and the shift in educational priorities during the pandemic.

The article presents the discussion on concept of academic integrity and the use of generative AI in written work created a significant disconnect. Topics include availability of AI tools for writing assistance presenting an opportunity for enhancing their work and improving efficiency; and investing in AI-powered plagiarism detection tools and training faculty members for recognizing signs of AI assistance.

The article focuses on a professor in University of Georgia who used a state law to get colleagues' e-mail messages and other records. Upset after the department voted narrowly against hiring his wife, Alexei Kojevnikov, a historian of science, got hold of records and e-mail messages of his dean, his department chairman, and four of his colleagues. Like most states, Georgia has an open-records law, or "sunshine law," which allows anyone to receive copies of records created by public employees, including faculty members at public universities. The professor has taken advantage of that. He suspects that Robert A. Pratt, chairman of the history department, sabotaged his efforts to get Kojevnikov's wife, Jessica Wang, a job in the department.

"Scholarship should not depend on the identity or motivation of the writers," said Helen Pluckrose, one of three academics whose scheme targeted journals in identity-studies fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that Jonas R. Kunst is a professor of cultural and community psychology at the University of Oslo who used to enjoy the process in which scholars evaluate papers in their field before they are published, typically anonymously and without pay. Topics include examines Kunst started receiving several requests from academic-journal editors every week.

The article focuses on faculty-led efforts to address budget cuts and restructuring in higher education institutions, with a specific case study at Bradley University. It delves into the challenges faced by faculty members tasked with identifying significant budget reductions, their approaches to analyzing institutional finances, and their attempts to influence administrative decisions.

The article examines that campus was in the grip of a damaging scandal that challenged UNC's core identity as a university that excelled in both athletics and academics. Topics include examines that series of phantom courses had sprung up in the university's department of African and Afro-American studies, and been used by athletes to keep their grades up.

Compiling a tenure file forces you to confront who you are and what you've done, and to reimagine who you want to become. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new paper forecasts rising demand for "permanent supporting scientists," who may be "relegated to a series of short-term postdoctoral contracts or other forms of contingent academic work." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on several announcements, private giving, and deadlines. It discusses the donation from Bates College's Board of Trustees chairman Michael Bonney and his wife Anne Grott Bonney, acceptance of applications for the Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize for Medieval Studies, and presents an obituary for Carl Gessert, a pharmacology professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

The article focuses on the problems with student teaching evaluations, highlighting their racial and gender biases and overall ineffectiveness. Topics discussed include studies revealing gender and racial biases in evaluations, the limitations of these evaluations in assessing teaching quality, and recommendations to cease using them for merit and promotion decisions in academia.

The article discusses plagiarism in the writing of college students and examines ways in which professors and students can use software programs such as Turnitin and WriteCheck to avoid approving or submitting plagiarized works. Several issues are discussed regarding plagiarism prevention including the differences in the roles of college teachers and students in the editing process, concerns regarding the use of the anti-plagiarism software and its impact on the classroom environment, and proper teaching methods to reduce cheating. The use of the software by students who speak English as a second language is explored and comments from professors Rebecca Moore Howard, Susan D. Blum, and Panagiotis Ipeirotis are presented.

The article reports that faculty members of Collin College in Texas were stunned at the way the school announced the death of their colleague after contracting COVID-19 in late October 2020. Topics covered include the faculty members' claim that Collin College leadership has neglected or negated their concerns throughout the pandemic, and that the framing of their colleague's death read like an afterthought.

This article presents information on life after retirement for college teachers. The time will come when one must give up a campus office and decide what to do with the books, papers, files, precious mementos, and other representations of one's professional life. Most of them want to take it home so they could at last satisfy their unfulfilled dreams of reading and writing. Unless one has the luxury of a large home, one should plan to dispose of most of the treasures before one takes the rest home. University librarians receive donations of books from retired professors after the books have been brought home.

Describes the dilemma faced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts in running its online archive for research called DSpace as of June 25, 2004. Total number of items contained in the archive; Concerns of MIT professors about online archive; Strategy adopted by the university to build support for DSpace. INSET: Colleges Retain Their Part of the Broadcast Spectrum.

This article presents information on college professors who are members of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a movement in the U.S. which claims that the U.S. government was behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. One of these professors is Steven E. Jones, professors of phyics at Brigham Young University in Utah. Last November 2005 Mr. Jones posted a paper online advancing the hypothesis that the airplanes Americans saw crashing into the twin towers were not sufficient to cause their collapse, and that the towers had to have been brought down in a controlled demolition. One of the most common intuitive problems people have with conspiracy theories is that they require positing such complicated webs of secret actions. If the twin towers fell in a carefully orchestrated demolition shortly after being hit by planes, who set the charges? Who did the planning? And how could hundreds, if not thousands of people complicit in the murder of their own countrymen keep quiet?

The article discusses the outsourcing of grading for a course in business law and ethics to a grading service, Virtual-TA of the company EduMetry, Inc., which employs graders based in Asia. The professor, Lori Whisenant of the University of Houston, explains that the quantity of writing done by the 1,000 students in the course was overwhelming, and she and her teaching assistants could not provide the detailed feedback necessary. The graders are trained and employed by the service and hold advanced degrees, are able to work quickly, and communicate with the professor online. Critics say the graders have no idea how classroom discussion may influence what a student writes, and that money spent on the service could pay for more teaching assistants.

In this article the author presents suggestions to college teachers regarding ways in which they can reduce, and even eliminate, paper as a medium of communication within their classes. He outlines the steps teachers should take in order to organize their computer files, stresses the importance of communicating the requirements for submitting digital versions of assignments, and describes reasons why paper copies of writing assignments are necessary for peer-review writing workshops.

The article discusses career prospects in higher education, particularly those of R. Carter Hailey, who is a bibliographer and an expert on paper-making and early modern printing, and his difficulties finding a full-time job. The nature of bibliography as an academic discipline is discussed, particularly the attention to detail that analytical bibliographers must have, and how valuable the field is in literary scholarship. English professor David L. Vander Meulen of the University of Virginia (UVa) discusses bibliography and English studies as a discipline. Associate professor Ann R. Hawkins of Texas Tech University comments on the need to teach bibliography.

The article cites an opinion on the issue that professors are ignorant of how well organized the research paper market is, of how accessible it is to students and how inimical it is to the process of learning. The process of enforcing an ethics code is costly for professors and burden of proof lies on the professor. It is important for the professors and institutions to recognize the seriousness of doing research paper.

This article reports that according to two teachers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, students generally do not want to rewrite their papers to improve their writing because they consider it as a sign of failure. Ellen E. Berry and Beth T. Black say that by breaking the review process into different stages, teachers can encourage students to rewrite the papers.

The article presents an exploration into the proper methods of attending and participating academic conferences as a college professor. The importance of keeping up with fellow academes within an individual field is stressed and advice is given for submitting work and garnering the most benefits from meetings. Advice for submitting papers includes attention to quality over quantity and also attending to the logistics of good oratory skills. Casual suggestions to enjoy the location and entertainment aspects of the venues are also given.

This article reports that a report, published last spring, arguing that conservative faculty members are less likely to advance in academe has drawn a withering attack in a new paper written by four scholars at the University of Pittsburgh. The original report, published in "Forum," a journal of applied research in contemporary politics, was based on a 1999 survey of 1,643 faculty members at 183 colleges in the U.S. It also contends that ideological discrimination is unlikely in higher education because political leanings are rarely discussed in the hiring process, and that it would be difficult, and probably impossible, for a potential employer to discover an applicant's political affiliation.

The article discusses the impact of mentoring on college professors. Topics discussed include the mentoring views of Stanley N. Katz, a historian and professor at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, the impact of mentoring on women and minority professors, and the ways in which mentors can help prepare teachers for tenure.

The article presents information on the evaluation of courses by administrators at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill through classroom visits. The author looks at academic improprieties of college professor Julius E. Nyang'oro, the introduction of a computerized grading system, and teaching standards at UNC.

The article focuses on a vice provost at Georgetown University, where Sarah Craig is a junior majoring in culture and politics, sent the student body an email with the subject line "Important Information On Your Classes." Topics include examines that professors had been asked to accommodate Covid 19-related absences but the university was committed to an in-person semester.

Reports on the art project of Peggy Diggs, a part-time lecturer in art at the Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, about paper money. Comments from Diggs.

Presents views of retiring professors in the U.S. on the number of student papers they have graded. Computation used in computing the number; Details of the result of the computation.

Discusses the effort of Dorothy K. Breininger, executive director of the Center for Organization and Goal Planning and her staff to organize office paperworks of university professors. Job of Breininger at the office of professor Ronald K. Anderson at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); Description of Breininger's clients; Effort to organize the files of UCLA professor Linda B. Bourque.

The article discusses Guillermo Gonzalez, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, who was denied tenure by the university in April 2007. Gonzalez, who has a better publication record than almost any other member of the astronomy faculty, believes he was denied because of his public support of the concept of intelligent design, but the author suggests that his recent scholarship has not lived up to his early promise and that many others in academe do not take his work seriously.

The article discusses the importance of time management for academics in light of the effect of the corporatization of universities. It outlines time management strategies to improve productivity of academics to achieve work-life balance such as use of graduate students, delegation of tasks, and better work habits. The relevance of community and social support to the intellectual and educational mission of the university to countering the individualism of a corporate university is discussed.

The article informs that faculty members can play an important role in countering outdated appeals in humanities and science fields. It is noted that academic literacy have already adept at managing higher education's unofficial rules, routines, and structures through hidden curriculum. It has been suggested to build structure by specifying the assignment's genre, audience and purpose through a sample writing assignment.

The article reports on the negative reaction of faculty members at the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil to a newspaper report accusing that one-fourth of them being unproductive. The faculty members accused the newspaper of libel and charged the university administration had allowed reporters to obtain incorrect preliminary report on faculty productivity.

The article reports that the results of surveys show that college professors are much more concerned than school teachers are about the students preparations for the demands of higher education. Professors and teachers differ significantly in their assessments of students preparations. The surveys were conducted for The Chronicle by Maguire Associates, a Boston-area research and consulting company. When asked about students abilities and attitudes in several specific areas, faculty members say that students are inadequate writers, have trouble understanding difficult materials, fall short in knowledge of science and math, have poor study habits, and lack motivation. INSET: How The Chronicle's Surveys Were Conducted.

The article comments on the idea of evaluating prospective teachers based on their professional dispositions. It also informs about educations professors' interests towards students' political views than their classroom performance. In addition to evaluating whether students are responsible and have good communication skills, some education schools have begun questioning whether students value social justice, acknowledge white privilege, and agree to be change agents in battling sexism, racism, and homophobia. INSETS: Defining Dispositions;Course Requirement or Loyalty Test?.

Uncovers some professors at U.S. colleges and universities that have acquired their degrees through diploma mills. Examples of professors with dubious academic degrees; Unaccredited university owned by Donald Grunewald, a business professor at Iona College, New York; Reasons that some professors do not attend one of the accredited U.S. colleges and universities. INSET: What's a Diploma Mill?.

Profiles several college professors in the U.S. Ulrike Malmendier of the Graduate Business School of Stanford University in California; Bryan Wagner of the University of California in Berkeley; Xiaole Liu at the School of Public Health at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; R. Michael Feener at the University of California at Riverside.

The article reports that the journal editors across fields and publishing houses stated finding peer reviewers is harder than ever such as tapping into the pool of female professors and researchers. Topics include examines Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, an academic clinical lecturer at the University College London who researches biases against women in medical research stated the gap can be traced back to how editors select reviewers.

The article focuses on Marc Edwards, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, and his advocacy for ethics in environmental engineering. It highlights the role of Edwards as an expert witness for a property owner in a suit against the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority for allegedly supplying corrosive water, as well as in helping residents of Flint, Michigan uncover high lead levels in drinking water. The goal of Edwards in teaching ethics is discussed.

This article reports that according to a working paper by three scholars posted on the Social Science Research Network, an overemphasis on the importance of magazine rankings is leading to a deterioration in American business schools. The paper was written by Harry and Linda DeAngelo, husband and wife, who are professors at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and Jerold L. Zimmerman, a professor at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. The new paper disputes that conclusion, arguing that more focus should be placed on fundamental principles and the creation of knowledge in the field.

This articles points out that scholars clash over whether an emphasis on maximum shareholder profit in business education is to blame for corporate malfeasance. In the movie Wall Street, a ruthless and corrupt corporate raider named Gordon Gekko delivers an impassioned speech to a paper company's stockholders that outlines the freewheeling philosophy that has made him rich--greed. The same thing that fueled a spate of notable corporate scandals--Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, and Tyco--in recent years. These executives have mostly graduated from the best business schools in the country. To remedy this business schools are putting an emphasis on the virtues of maximizing shareholder value is a central pillar of contemporary economic theory, and it remains a useful tool for understanding and resolving conflicts of interest among stockholders, managers, and other players in a company.

Reports on the departure of a number of professors involved in a research-fraud scandal at the Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky, as of September 2003. Details of the institution's investigation into the scandal; Information on the dismissed professors.