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fromFortune
1 week ago

Tennessee theater professor reinstated, with $500,000 settlement, after losing his job over a Charlie Kirk-related social media post | Fortune

Austin Peay reinstated tenured professor Darren Michael and agreed to pay $500,000 plus counseling reimbursement after improperly handling his termination over a social media post.
Education
fromNew York Post
1 month ago

Exclusive | Brooklyn teacher NYC tried to fire decade ago for fixing grades is back in classroom and under fraud probe again: 'No accountability'

A tenured NYC physics teacher accused of changing Regents scores avoided termination decades ago and is now back teaching despite prior findings of dishonesty.
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Careers
fromFortune
4 months ago

Job-hopping Gen Z only stay at each job 1 year and 54% are regularly browsing for their next role-but a report says they're not disloyal villains | Fortune

Gen Z average early-career tenure is 1.1 years; they change jobs mainly for professional development, not higher pay.
fromNature
6 months ago

Daily briefing: Scans reveal that optimists share similar brain-activity patterns

A brain-imaging study reveals that optimistic people's brain activity patterns are alike, whereas pessimists exhibit more varied and idiosyncratic brain activities, suggesting implications for mental health.
Mental health
Higher education
fromNature
6 months ago

Do academics publish less after getting tenured? Depends on your field

Publication patterns for academics change significantly after attaining tenure, affecting output and citation rates.
fromFlowingData
6 months ago

Studying the why behind the everyday, like coffee stains

Some pushback came because a few people did not consider certain subjects I studied to be "serious." Others were upset because I was emphasizing what seemed to them unscientific aspects. We could have captured the same physics without working nearly as hard as we did to perfect the photography, and this made people upset. They said, "You're a scientist, you're not supposed to care about things like that." But it matters to me that you appeal to as many aspects of the human endeavor as you can.
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fromNature
8 months ago

Trump team's science cuts threaten tenure hopes for early-career academics

The Trump administration's policies have significantly impacted early-career researchers' funding and tenure prospects, especially in diversity, equity, and inclusion fields.
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