Winter 2024 | Vol. 110, No. 1
The winter issue of Academe takes a critical look at the “higher ed data juggernaut.” Guest-edited by Siobhan Senier, professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire and vice president of UNH-AAUP, this special issue considers “the headache-inducing proliferation of tools and platforms that are increasing our workloads, shrinking our workforce, abrogating our academic freedom, interfering with our pedagogy, and generally policing us and our students.” Articles examine the spread of corporate educational technology on campus, the quantification of learning, compliance-driven demands for institutional data, and the biases underlying the data that shape public perceptions of higher education.
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Educational Technology and the Entrenchment of "Business as Usual"
Higher education's problematic relationship with massive learning analytics vendors.
By Catherine McGowan, Britt Paris, and Rebecca Reynolds
Bad Data Are Not Better Than No Data
A guide for radically inserting ourselves in decisions about educational technologies.
By Martha Fay Burtis and Jesse Stommel
Has Quantification Seduced Higher Education?
An emphasis on quantitative metrics threatens the values of the liberal arts.
By Eric Scarffe and Katherine Valde
The Academic Dilemma of Data-Driven Decision-Making
Colleges and universities face rising demands for data.
By Patricia McGuire
Data Sources, Funders, and Austerity in Higher Education
How economic interests shape data-driven higher education.
By Neil Kraus
Singing the Praises of Shared Governance (online only)
To strengthen the faculty's role in governance, try whimsy.
By Louis Epstein
Understanding Disciplinary Differences in Peer Review (online only)
Findings from a new study can inform debates about peer review.
By Carol J. Auster
A Prescription for Financing Higher Education (online only)
On forgiving student debt and broader reforms.
By Linda Stamato
BOOK REVIEWS
A Professor's Fight against McCarthyism Resonates Today
Joan W. Scott reviews The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis by Steve Batterson.
Whose University? The Board's
Jennifer Ruth reviews The Autocratic Academy by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn.
Fighting for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Ellen Schrecker reviews Power despite Precarity by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
CHAPTER PROFILE
George Mason University AAUP Chapter
COLUMNS
From the Guest Editor: The Higher Ed Data Juggernaut
Legal Watch: Defending Tenure and Economic Security at Tufts and Beyond
From the President: Their Attacks Must Be Our Call to Action
NOTA BENE
AAUP Report Documents Assault on Higher Education in Florida
AAUP Calls for Academic Freedom in Polarizing Times
Governance Investigation at Spartanburg Community College
AAUP Presents Examines Racial Equity in Higher Education
Racial Equity Fund Named in Honor of Katherine Morrison
Statement on Discrimination and Equality
Resource on Political Interference in Higher Education
Statement on Academic Freedom and Outside Speakers
A Warm Welcome to New and Reestablished AAUP Chapters
Remembering John McNay
