Weekend Outlook – Visit a farmers market in Arlington
Check out The REACH’s outdoor art exhibit, head to Arlington for a farmers market and learn how to liven up your apartment with plants.
Dish of the Week: Shouk's fried Shouk'n pita
Head just north of Chinatown to try out plant-based, Israeli-inspired meals from Shouk.
The humanities need more funding and higher standards
Courses must push students to grow out of their comfort zones, and more funding for several departments would help accomplish that.

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articles from Inside Higher Ed

D.C. universities collaborate in establishing mobile COVID testing lab that will also serve Baltimore public schools
A group of colleges in the Washington, D.C., metro area is collaborating on a new COVID-19 testing program that will also serve Baltimore City Public […]
Salem College refocuses its curriculum on health and leadership
A handful of colleges have debuted health-related programs during the pandemic, and Salem College just joined their ranks. The small women’s […]
Unions, policy groups push for more accountability from colleges and universities
When the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers recently launched a campaign to hold the nation’s […]

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articles from the Chronicle of Higher Ed

Lower Pay. Less Job Security. More Covid-19 Risk?
Economists found that half of Auburn University's classes lack capacity for adequate physical distancing, and lower-ranked instructors are more likely to teach in the riskiest rooms.Economists found that half of Auburn University's classes lack capacity for adequate physical distancing, and lower-ranked instructors are more likely to teach in the riskiest rooms.
Scholars Talk Writing: Who Really Wrote Your Book?
Turns out some academics use ghostwriters, but even the many who don’t use them depend on good editors.Turns out some academics use ghostwriters, but even the many who don’t use them depend on good editors.
Who’s Mostly Missing From Among the Highest-Paid Employees at Top Research Institutions? Women
A new study measures the gender gap in higher ed by examining who holds the best-paid jobs.

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from the New York Times

Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College
A student said she was racially profiled while eating in a college dorm. An investigation found no evidence of bias. But the incident will not fade away.
Family of Georgia Teen Who Died After Basketball Drills Sues School Officials
Imani Bell, 16, collapsed while running up stadium steps in “extreme heat,” according to a complaint filed on Wednesday.
No Parties. No Sports. How Oberlin College Is Surviving the Pandemic.
Colleges across the country are figuring out how Covid has changed the college experience, while parents are struggling to understand why schools haven’t changed their price tag.

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articles from the Washington Post

The deeply distorted debate about reopening schools
Parsing the accusations that Biden is ignoring science.
The covid-19 stress test in two school districts
How two districts faced the coronavirus pandemic.
No, the CDC did not order people to wear two masks — and other lessons on fake news
Local newspapers vs. tech giants — and more from the News Literacy Project.

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The Undercommons

Battling with the University for the University: Organizing, Friendship, and Performativity in the NYU Sanctuary Movement
[Photo: Ryan Quan from NYU News] by James McMaster and Olivia Michiko Gagnon What follows is not an account of escalating strategies and spectacular confrontations. That can be found in the news. Consider this a fragmentary homage to and audit of the ideological and intimate micropolitics of […]
Join us for our first open online strategy session March 25, 3:45pm EST
All those who struggle within, against and beyond the neoliberal, neocolonial university are invited to join us on March 25 (15:45-17:15 EST) for a special online/offline strategy session, broadcasting live from the Organizing Equality conference in London, Ontario. This session aims to share and […]
CFP: From Sanctuary to Sabotage: Fighting the Fascist Creep at and beyond Universities
CALL FOR PROVOCATIONS (April 30, 2017) The 2016 US election has been framed as both a decisive break from “politics as usual” and as a continuation and intensification of longstanding racialized, gendered, and sexualized global class warfare. In this allegedly post-truth era, the university […]