Category: Professional Notes

Craig Vasey Talks About Teacher Evals in Inside Higher Ed

Craig Vasey, chair of classics, philosophy and religion at the University of Mary Washington and chair of AAUP’s Committee on Teaching, Research and Publications, was recently interviewed for an Insider Higher Ed story called “Teaching Eval Shake-Up.”According to the story:Vasey called the “most pernicious element” of quantiative student evaluations is that the results “get translated into […]

Lynne Richardson’s Weekly Column Appears in FLS

Lynne Richard’s weekly column, “Make hiring committees work for your company,” recently appeared in The Free Lance-Star.“Say it’s time to hire a new senior-level manager in your organization,” she writes.Read the whole column here:http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-make-hiring-committees-work-for-your-company/article_8c57ca92-7cba-551e-a174-6b9e09ebf3e6.html 

Farnsworth Featured in Boston Globe, MSN.com, Bustle.com

UMW political science professor Stephen Farnsworth, was recently featured in the Boston Globe, msn.com and Bustle.com talking about Donald Trump’s tweets.In the Boston Globe and msn.com:“If the political conversation is about Donald Trump’s typos, that plays into the narrative that the coastal elites don’t understand ordinary Americans who make typos,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a political […]