Some news from the academic world. Jemar Tisby has joined the Center for Antiracist Research as the Assistant Director of Narrative and Advocacy. Listen to our interview with Tisby in Episode of 49 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home...
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Cornel West is threatening to leave Harvard
Harvard offered the 67-year-old public intellectual an endowed chair, a ten year contract, and a pay raise, but Cornel West is holding out for tenure. I can’t read the Boston Globe story because I don’t have subscription, but here is...
*Inside Higher Ed* Covers the Erin Bartram Blog Post on Leaving Academia
We blogged about this yesterday. Get up to speed here. Here is a taste of “Calling Academe’s Bluff.” Janet Watson, an associate professor of history at UConn, worked with Bartram in graduate school and reached out to her about her...
Catherine Allgor is the New President of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Here is the press release: The Trustees of the Massachusetts Historical Society announced today the appointment of Catherine Allgor, Ph.D. as the next President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Allgor will assume her position in early October 2017. The announcement...
Stony Brook University Announces Recipient of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair in American History
Congratulations Paul Kelton. He joins my Ph.D alma mater in this newly created endowed chair. Here is the press release: Historian Paul Kelton has been named the first Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair in American History by the College of...
Breaking News on the Christian College Front: Geneva College President Resigns
BEAVER FALLS –– Geneva College President Kenneth A. Smith is resigning, effective June 30, the college announced Tuesday. “We’re going to miss him here, obviously,” college spokeswoman Cheryl Johston said. Smith has been president of the Beaver Falls-based college for...