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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.

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.

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.

A study of 180 academic CVs finds that 56 percent claimed at least one publication that turned out to be unverifiable or inaccurate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the author's experience related to happenings after retirement of a professor. He said that during his 40 years of college teaching, one of the saddest sights he encountered occurred every June. Walking down a corridor of faculty offices, he would spot a mammoth pile of books, files, and miscellaneous papers outside a doorway, awaiting the trash haulers. He felt sad to see so many years of the person's academic career, so much time and energy, on its way to the dump or recycling center. But he was able to provide a better place to his works.

The article reports that several academics who presented papers at the American Psychological Association convention in Los Angeles, California put their work on a mainframe computer at the University of Houston at University Park so their colleagues could read them on the Bitnet network. Putting the papers on the network allowed people to read them in advance and to avoid information overload problem.

The article reports that deadlines are a building block of college courses as they help students stay on track, and they ensure instructors are not overwhelmed with a slew of work to grade at the end of a term. Topics include examines many professors have long been sticklers about deadlines, arguing it is part of preparing students for their postcollege lives.

The article discusses that Morningside Pharmaceuticals founder Nik Kotecha is looking forward to his new role as an academic at De Montfort University Leicester and will be made professor of entrepreneurship, innovation, and philanthropy at the university, where he is working as pro-chancellor.

This article presents information on several studies on smallest known vertebrate conducted by ichthyologists. Last month, in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society B," a team of researchers from Europe and Singapore reported finding a new genus of freshwater fish in swamps in Southeast Asia. One species from Sumatra, which they named Paedocypris progenetica, had a mature female measuring only 7.9 millimeters long, about the size of a big mosquito, according to Maurice Kottelat, an honorary research associate at the University of Singapore and president of the European Ichthyological Society. Theodore W. Pietsch, a professor of biology, published a paper last year in "Ichthyological Research," in which he identified an unusual type of deep-sea anglerfish, with a mature male measuring only 6.2 millimeters. He calls that the world's smallest vertebrate.

The article offers information on the advancement of associate professor to full professor. Topics discussed include criteria for the promotion of faculty members, faculty diversity, and the roles of full professor. Comments from professors Frank J. Donoghue, Douglas M. Kline, and Daniel Aldridge are also included.

Presents news items related to gays in the U.S., taken from various periodicals as of May 6, 2005. Reinstatement of Grove City College professor, psychologist and author Warren Throckmorton to the National Professional Advisory Council for Magellan Health Services; Decision of the Tribal Council of the Navajo Nation to restrict marriage to non-related members of the opposite sex seeking non-plural unions; Inquiry of U.S. President George W. Bush regarding the Splash Day event.

An essay is presented on issues surrounding corruption, academic freedom, and injustice in U.S. colleges and universities. Particular focus is given to the author's experience of being fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign following a series of controversial social media postings regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. According to the author, university administrators are less interested in promoting critical thinking and intellectual life than in promoting their school's brand.

The article offers advice for U.S. graduate students on attending academic conferences. Topics include job networking, how to relate to senior scholars, and the relation of conference papers to obtaining academic jobs. The author focuses on her experience as a adjunct professor in relation to the academic job market.

The article discusses the highlights of the 9th Urban and Regional Planning seminar hosted by NED University in Karachi, Pakistan. The speakers include Yap Kioe Sheng, Professor of Housing at Cardiff University who talked about sustainable housing for the poor, and Alison Brown, Professor of Urban Planning at Cardiff University who lectured on the myth of invisible workforce in home based enterprises. Other speakers include NED University professors Noman Ahmed and Mir Shabbar Ali.

Reports on the warning issued by leaders of Great Britain's Association of University Teachers that its members will refuse to grade the papers of students completing their bachelor's degrees unless university vice-chancellors respond positively to the teachers' demand for 16-percent raises. Estimated number of students scheduled to graduate in 1991; Reduction of the universities' budgets.

The article reports that Harvard University is investigating if any regulations were violated by professor Samuel P. Huntington when he helped visiting professor Richard K. Betts to write a research paper for the CIA. Huntington expressed his ignorance about the presence of any guidelines that restricts the writing of research documents or any such affiliations with outside institutions.

The article reports on an investigation conducted by the "Chronicle" on the University of Florida's (UF) rejection to its political science professors' requests to participate in voting-rights litigation against Florida. Topics discussed include professor Oliver Grundmann's proposal to sign a scientific consensus letter about the kratom, the implications of the discussion about kratom for UF professors' academic freedom, and exposure of UF's treatment of politically sensitive issues.

The article reports that A person's loss of smell could predict changes in regions of the brain important to detect Alzheimer's disease and dementia, according to a study by researchers at the University of Chicago. Co-authored by Professor Jayant M. Pinto, senior author of the study, the findings could prove significant for the more than 6 million Americans estimated to have Alzheimer's disease for which there is no cure as yet.

The article discusses instances of academic fraud committed by college professors wherein they steal and publish research conducted by the students for which they serve as advisers. Particular focus is given to lawsuits filed by former graduate students Padmapriya Ashokkumar and Mazdak Taghioskoui, both of whom accuse their former faculty advisers of plagiarizing work from their research projects. In Ashokkumar's case, she has sued the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and former professor Scott Henninger over their development of software. Taghioskoui focused his suit on George Washington University chemistry professor Akbar Montaser, claiming the professor intimidated and harassed him after Taghioskoui alleged Montaser had plagiarized his research.

In this article the author discusses the technological literacy of U.S. college students and examines how the belief that all college students are adept at online communication is a myth. He comments on the generational gap in technological literacy between students and teachers that often exists on college campuses and argues that it is the role of college teachers to instruct their students on proper Internet communication skills that are specific to each academic discipline. He also outlines reasons why discipline-specific teaching should focus on elements including academic databases and online scholarly journals.

Several personal narratives are presented which explore the authors' experiences teaching their first online course including Washington State University doctoral candidate Regina McMenomy, Nova Southeastern University professor Robert Hill, and University of Toledo lecturer Mike S. DuBose.

The article reports on the three paths to better classroom teaching and when to ignore them. The essay published in the journal "Perspectives on Psychological Science," by David B. Daniel, associate professor of psychology at James Madison University, and Debra A. Poole, psychology professor at Central Michigan University, in which they advised college-teaching researchers to spend more time observing actual classrooms has received praise from scholars. Their paper states that certain instructional practices that seem like a good idea in the abstract can harm students some of the time. The principles of desirable difficulties, spacing, and metacognitive monitoring are discussed.

The article focuses on the use of portable electronic calculators by college students. The tested and accepted slide-rule is being replaced by the calculator. In some colleges, pocket calculators are even provided to the students. New disciplines that employ calculation, other than math, science, engineering, and business, have been introduced. The costs of the calculator is also decreasing. Some professors and students staunchly oppose the usage of calculators despite its popularity.

The article shares the views of Kate Marley, Teacher at Doane University, uses to level of disengagement she and her colleagues have witnessed across the Nebraska campus as well as teacher's relationship with student. It mentions that the Chronicle asked faculty members to share their experiences with student disengagement to describe a disconcerting level of disconnection among students in community colleges.

Let's determine what our students actually learn online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author, a college educator, speculates about the causes behind student plagiarism. It is asserted that the most insulting part of plagiarism is that students accomplish it in ways that are easy to catch. The theory is proposed that student plagiarists are often poor plagiarists because they don't realize that it's possible to read a text that has been assembled from multiple sources and determine where one source's contribution ends and another's begins. The author considers that because those students don't pay attention to diction, syntax, or tone when they read, they can't possibly imagine that someone else might. The broader issue of using one's own standards to judge others is considered, and what the author calls the "paradox of plagiarism" is defined.

The article relates the author's professional accomplishments. According to the author who is a faculty member of a university in the U.S., his research entitled "Zeno's Paradox hits Home: Infinite Talents in a Finite World," was published in the December 2003 issue of "Journal for and by Gifted Children." Most notable was his opportunity to secure a contract for the publication of his forthcoming book, "To Sartre With Love: Existentialism in the Films of Sidney Poitier" with Mary's Publishing and Copy House. On the side of his teaching, the author says that he has committed himself to a new student-directed model of learning in line with the excellent recommendations from the dean's office. Furthermore, he is pioneering the notion of a student-led discussion, the model of Student-Centered Teaching.

Focuses on argumentative writings of college students. Confusion on the definition of argument in teaching the writings; Impact of a student culture on the creation of the writings; Need for college teachers to defend a discourse model when teaching argument.

Focuses on the relationship between white professors and Afro-American athletes in the U.S. Attitudes displayed by professors toward athletes; Common negative behaviors of athletes; Advice given by an athlete to professors.

Reports on the increasing number of U.S. college professors who are leaving four-year institutions for community colleges, as of March 2003. Advantages of teaching at community colleges; Misconceptions about teaching at two-year institutions; Details on the experiences of such college professors.

Features Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics and political science at New York City's Columbia University, who is known as one of the world's most tenacious critics of protectionism. His claim against the departments of English, comparative literature and sociology; His attitudes about the steel dispute; Accusation of Bhagwati's critics.

The article offers brief profiles of professionals under 40 years old from West Virginia. The professionals include Wheeling HealthRight clinical coordinator Amanda Cummins, Teach for American senior managing director Sarah Koegler and Zachary Loughman, assistant professor of biology at West Liberty University. Information on the first jobs, vacation spots and the stress management techniques of the professionals is presented.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being a professor.

The author reflects on the lessons he learned from writer-professor Daniel Keyes who passed away at the age of 86 on June 15, 2014. He recounts the days he spent at Ohio University in 1977 when he took the senior-level creative writing subject under Keyes. The author also shares the marks he received from the writer-professor when he submitted a story for the class. He tells the different ways on how his writing improved gradually under Daniel Keyes.

Take control of the ways that you and your work are perceived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Four instructors spoke to The Chronicle about their experience cheating as students, and how it informs the way they handle academic misconduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on academic burnout being experienced by college teachers. Topics discussed include the problem with students' indifference he faced as a college teacher, the stress he felt in his job as a result of the problems he faced in the campus, the impact of the pandemic on college teachers, and results of the higher education study conducted by Fidelity Investments.

Presents an excerpt from an email message featuring a discussion of faculty members at Texas Christian University on paper towel dispensers.

The article highlights veteran music producer turned assistant professor of media arts and studies at the Ohio University Eddie Ashworth's passion for sound recording productions and music. It presents a brief profile of Ashworth's career as sound technician and music producer and reflects on his work as a professor as well as his impact on students.

The article profiles William Lane Craig, an American philosopher of religion and Christian apologist. Details are provided on Craig's debates with atheists, often held on college campuses and widely circulated online, with information provided on his experience debating since high school and his strategies. Other topics covered include his education at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, the University of Birmingham in England, and the University of Munich, the Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS), and his career as a college teacher.

The article discusses the decrease in on-campus collaboration between college professors in the U.S. due to the reliance on technology that facilitated cooperation between professors internationally. It addresses the declining popularity of faculty clubs, as well as comments on the expectations of productivity from young and associate professors. Other topics explored include the increasing employment of adjunct professors, fewer formal occasions to socialize with colleagues, and turnover rates for professors in the U.S.

The article discusses the hiring process for tenure-track humanities professors at U.S. colleges as of 2013, and describes applicants to the English Department of the Ohio University and the linguistics department of the University of Florida. College teacher qualifications, employee search committees, and teachers' job experience are discussed, as well as the demographics of applicants, the interview process, and successful applicants Stefanie Wulff and Patrick O'Keeffe. Teachers' scholarly publishing and educational levels are also mentioned.

The article profiles Herbert Warren Richardson, founder of publisher Edwin Mellen Press. Information is provided on Richardson's education at Baldwin-Wallace College and Harvard Divinity School as well as his career as a professor at the University of St. Michael's College and in academic publishing with the founding of Edwin Mellen Press. It highlights the strict editorial and acceptance guidelines at Richardson's publisher and his eventual creation of a higher education institution, Edwin Mellen University. Particular attention is given to Richardson's lawsuit against academic librarian Dale Askey who criticized Edwin Mellen's titles in a blog.