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Let 'em Write 16 Aug 2018

Blog: Just VisitingOne of my biggest regrets as a teacher of writing is that for many years, I didn’t make students write enough. The problem was the way I was structuring the semester as units, each unit focused around a major assignment which would be subject to a grade. In a composition course, I might have six units of varying lengths, including a resear […]

John Warner

Colleges award tenure 16 Aug 2018

Agnes Scott College Jennifer Larimore, biology Robin Morris, history DePaul University Enrico Au-Yeung, mathematical sciences Shayna Connelly, cinematic arts Sarah Connolly, health sciences Sonya Crabtree-Nelson, social work Maria DeMoya, communication Ben Epstein, political science Wendy Epstein, law Maria Ferrera, social work Andrew Gallan, marketing Stan […]

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New research shows extent of gender gap in citations 16 Aug 2018

Research into the gendered citation patterns of academics has confirmed what many have long suspected -- that male authors tend to cite other men over women in their article bibliographies. But such underlying biases can apply even in a journal with a majority of female authors, and may spread to papers co-authored by women with men, the work suggests. Analy […]

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