New staff member directs spring mainstage “Wolf Play”
This year, the Fir Acres Theatre welcomed a new staff member to the department: Assistant Professor of Theatre Suhaila Meera. Meera is taking on the task of …
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Diners, Date spots and Dives: What Professors are Saying About Portland Restaurants.
Consistently ranked as one of the top food cities in the United States, Portland has a lot to offer in terms of dining. Naturally, you may be …
Professors find love and partnership at LC
By Lluvia Meyreles The workplace romances inside Lewis & Clark faculty do not quite top those of a daytime soap opera, but sometimes it feels like it. …
The tenure track blocks innovation
By Lluvia Meyreles Publish or perish. So goes the intimidating and incentivizing adage used to describe the looming goal for all aspiring professors: tenure. If you need to …
Politics in the Classroom
“If we can’t have these conversations with peers and professors that we know and trust, how can we have them in the ‘real world?’” said Alec Ballweg …
This Issue’s College Issues: How tenure can be used to protect controversial professors
Though professors are protected from unjust termination, administrative overreach plagues academia As a staunch opponent to the educationally destructive institution of tenure, I rarely encounter news …
Inside Tenure: the track to tenure takes years and luck to secure a permanent spot
Many professors at Lewis & Clark are hired with the expectation that they will eventually receive tenure, a sought-after position in which their job at LC is …