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Maia Kotrosits

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maiakotrosits.wordpress.com PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies. Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).

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CAC - SCÉC @cacscec.bsky.social · 1h
CAMWS invites applications for the Fauci Award. This $500 annual award recognizes an undergraduate student attending university in the US or Canada who demonstrates outstanding work in both Classics and a STEM or pre-med/pre-health/social science discipline. www.cac-scec.ca/2026/10/fauc...
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CAMWS’ Fauci Award for Undergraduate Students (Application Deadline: January 15th, 2027) - The Classical Association of Canada
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A powerful piece by Claudio Lomnitz in Boston Review. His next @dukepress.bsky.social book will be out in the spring. dukeupress.edu/a-political-... www.bostonreview.net/articles/sla...
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Slavery Pure and Simple
A recent bombshell report documents brutal cases of forced labor in Mexico. Why can’t the government take it seriously?
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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
chronicle’s got a problem problem
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hot off the presses! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Shlomo napping with Shaul’s new book!
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Leila Chatti
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t think it’s possible to see this without the wider context of the recent parliamentary committee reporting attacking EDI in research funding and the overall lack of support for higher ed in general
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The New School has once again placed itself at the cutting edge of a new age in higher education: the dismantling of tenure,” the suit says. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/n...
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Professor Sues New School, Claiming Tenure Has Been Dismantled (Gift Article)
The lawsuit was filed by one of 19 educators laid off in June amid a reorganization of the Manhattan university to address its financial problems.
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Forget “the university will never love me back.” It won’t even honor your contract. Act, work, socialize accordingly.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm accepting students for supervision! Happy to talk to you if that's something you're interested in. If you're working on Chronicles, Ezr-Neh, Hag, Zech, Mal, gender in HB, material philology - those are the areas I'm best suited. Knox College has a generous PhD fellowship package.
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Knox College Fellowships - Knox College, Canada
Knox College is committed to fostering academic excellence and theological leadership through its fellowship programs.
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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How I left academia for a an industry committed to higher education’s destruction: thread!
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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The next step is officially file as a religion with the IRS to avoid taxes futurism.com/future-socie...
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Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God
According to a rumor that is apparently running rampant in Silicon Valley these days, some Anthropic engineers are "worshipping" Claude.
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Danez Smith, “Dear Time.” www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Dear Time,
now married, i’m in you different, in love deeper, legally, under god and in front of my mama, i know love different, love is a measure of you, to love is…
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Loneliness is all that oligarchs will give you for free. Loneliness without solitude: the ultimate totalitarian win." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...
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I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud
How AI is destroying the life of the mind.
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
new (open access!) article from Brent Nongbri redating some "early" gospel papyri (or "Nongbriing" them) brill.com/view/journal...
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The Construction and Date of P.Bodmer 14–15 (P75)
Abstract This article describes an underutilized criterion for assigning dates to papyrus codices, the presence of very long sheets (kollemata) in the rolls from which the bifolia of papyrus codices w...
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you aren’t reading radical texts, why
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We need to stop listening to fucking consultants and politicians
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
hey my review essay on Stan Stowers' two books (his collection of essays and Big Honking Theory Book) is out now from STUDIES IN LATE ANTIQUITY @ucpress.bsky.social. let me know if you don't have access and want to read it! online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-...
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Review: History and the Study of Religion: The Ancient Mediterranean as a Test Case, and Christian Beginnings: A Study in Ancient Mediterranean Religion, by Stanley Stowers
When I first opened up these two new books by Stanley Stowers, I happened to be teaching two undergraduate courses at Boston University: an introduction to early Christianity and a course for religion...
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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.abetterbalance.org/nationwide-c...
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Nationwide Class Action Against Amazon Claims Abusive Treatment of Pregnant Warehouse Workers - A Better Balance
Former pregnant Amazon warehouse workers seek justice and policy changes at the retail giant.
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is an insane detail in this report on cheating! nymag.com/intelligence...
In the meantime, many schools have turned to surveillance.
Owen, a junior at Princeton
familiar with its Honor Committee, says the school often catches AI cheats by spying on internet use. Students' browsing histories are pulled from the campus network and scanned for recent visits to ChatGPT or Claude. If you whipped out your phone during a quiz, accessing a model on the building's Wi-Fi, you will likely be busted. While every case requires multiple pieces of evidence, and Princeton says it does not pull students' search histories unless they are already under investigation, Owen says the network logs have become critical in proving academic dishonesty. Every case he's been aware of lately has leaned on them.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 01/09/2026
“Immigrant women have always been the most vulnerable people in the prison system because there is no accountability for the guards.” @khawlanakua.bsky.social investigates how strip searches are normalized as security and used as tools of abuse.
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In the Name of Security
Invasive, Humiliating and Routine: An investigation into the everyday violence of prison strip searches which incarcerated women say are a tool of abuse.
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026
important from @blacklikewho.bsky.social. those of us within these structures are aware of how our acceptance is predicated on performing our identities in particular ways for particular audiences and that excessive scrutiny and disavowal is swift and brutal when it comes.
meme of a space person looking at what appears to be earth from orbit saying "the university is in crisis" with another space person pointing a space gun at them from behind saying "always has been".
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m convinced that one of the ways we as academics are taught to depoliticize our work is by calling intellectual formations “turns.”
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I live with so many Virgos.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The Supremely Corrupt Court !
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Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I was just thinking of the timing of TAH's anti-DEI screed in the Atlantic, and how many people on Twitter used it as "intellectual" justifications for driving even more harassment towards Jason Arday. Sometimes I wish I hadn't been following this play out on the other place.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Plagiarism is merely—and only ever—the pretext.
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When, oh when, will we learn that the entire framework of “anti-trafficking” is a tactic of nation-states to justify border controls and deportations, and a grift mill for NGOs cashing in on anti-sex work politics and people’s genuine concerns for children?
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Controversial group wins $158M-contract to represent unaccompanied immigrant children
Utah-based Our Rescue was founded by activist Tim Ballard. It was previously known as Operation Underground Railroad and it says it helps law enforcement perform sting operations and rescues human tra...
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
another new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity, from Yuliya Minets, 💫 free 💫 to download through August 26! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In "Content Machines," @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social considers how short-form, platform-based, and social media writing on digital mediums like Wattpad and TikTok has reshaped the modern reading and writing landscape. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Tip538L
Cover of Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era by Sarah Brouillette. The cover is white with a tablet featuring six colorful digitally drawn images of romance book covers. There are blue thumbs ups and red hearts covering the images. Beneath is written, “Reading and Writing in the Platform Era” in bold. Below this, in lighter text, a summary of Content Machines begins. The title is written vertically in the bottom right parallel to the tablet. The author’s name is directly after in a smaller serif font.
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
friends and neighbors, the newest Element in Religion in Late Antiquity is now *live* and *free to download* through August 4! The inimitable Virginia Burrus on "Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature"! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I keep seeing versions of this argument. Yet I am still waiting for it to be taken seriously by those institutions responsible for maintaining the humanities.
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
A photo of the wildfires in canada. Fire rages through forest area with vright orange flame and dark gray smoke.
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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“We are expected to be good academics, which means hypocrites and opportunists.” lithub.com/intifada-on-...
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Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide
[To rise, she rises, I rise, we rise, an uprising] لا يقيم العزيز في البلد السهل      ولا ينفع الذليل النجاء The noble never reside in easy lands, and flight will not avail the lowly  This is a lin…
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15/07/2026
A temporary pause after two deadly ICE traffic stops is not accountability. Neither is more training for an agency empowered to terrorize communities. @delia.bsky.social says abolishing ICE is only the beginning: dismantle DHS.
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House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 15/07/2026
NORTHWESTERN: *appoints prof as inaugural Chair of Social Justice in Reporting* PROF: *supports social justice* NORTHWESTERN: No not like that
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Simply imagine the employment possibilities for the rest of us, in literally any profession, if we just immediately fired predatory men.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...
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Contents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1
This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
AJR's Review Forum of Christine Luckritz Marquis’s Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) continues an essay from Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...
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Remembering Broken Promises and Shattered Voices — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
In the wake of collective trauma, memory practices can be protective strategies that channel grief while also shielding the community from continuing harm.
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Monstrous Intimacies At 15 @monstrousat15.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Mark your calendars! Monstrous Intimacies at 15—a colloquium dedicated to Christina Sharpe's monograph—will be held in Toronto, Ontario on June 22-24, 2026! @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Poster for "Monstrous Intimacies at 15," an in-person colloquium dedicated to the impact of Christina Sharpe's first monograph. It will be held June 22 - 24, 2026 in Toronto, Canada. The poster features a photograph of a light taken by Boz Deseo Garden.
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
We are delighted to announce the publication of our Spring 2026 issue! Today, we are featuring Edward E. Curtis's important article on the intersection religion and Arab American studies. muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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A University President Responds to Those Who Have Suggested the School Should Dip Into the Endowment
“We hear you. You are valid. You. Matter. Secondly, and no less importantly, let me make something clear: The. Endowment. Is. Not. For. You.” May 11 2021 5/8...
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Looks like it’s time to bring back the #chroniclepitchbot again. “Is this decontextualized, historically inept, and badly substantiated report by tenured professors at high profile institutions stupid and violent? We asked the writers.” www.chronicle.com/article/insi...
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Is a New Report About the Humanities ‘Diabolically Evil’? We Questioned Its Authors.
K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"Depending on sector and institutional type, presidential compensation ranged from roughly three times to more than five times the average salary of a full professor. That ratio remains one of the clearest illustrations of the widening gap between executive compensation and faculty pay."
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Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession Now Available
This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.
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