Why should educators care what faculty at colleges and universities think about biological evolution?
Today, the majority of faculty at colleges and universities are adjunct professors.
"There are academic advisers and faculty at colleges to help students make decisions, but no one is perfect and mistakes can happen," Michele Ramsey, an associate professor at Penn State Berks, says.
Frank discussion about such monuments -- tributes to a grim past -- are necessary first steps in enabling further discussion about the overall climate for students of color, administrators and faculty at colleges and universities throughout the country.
A likely source of semi-famous authors is the faculty at colleges and universities.
They are also demanding shared governance of their university as black students – something even white, tenured faculties at colleges across the country have abandoned.
In recent months, the union succeeded in hard-fought votes among part-time faculty at Whittier College, Mills College and California College of the Arts in Oakland, San Francisco Art Institute and Laguna College of Art and Design.
About 30 years ago, we were on the faculty at Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate Center, working with a linguistics Ph.D. student from the Netherlands.
For a while, students and faculty at Oberlin College were made to follow Graham's diet; graham crackers were so named in order to appeal to his acolytes.
While Grayling, Pinker, Dawkins, Ferguson, and other faculty at the college are celebrity academics, this does not necessarily make them the best people to learn from.
