By Natalie Houston. A recent post by Charlie Harvey, titled The word final should never appear in filenames points out that when you’re sharing files with colleagues,creating a clear system for filenames reduces a lot of potential frustration. More...
By Rose Jacobs. A few years ago, a Spanish psychologist and his team of researchers asked about 700 students to decide whether they would kill one person to save five. It was a version of the classic trolley dilemma: A small train is trundling toward five people on the tracks who will perish in the crash; you see this from your perch on a footbridge and realize you can save them by shoving one of your fellow pedestrians—a fat man—off the bridge, into the train’s path. Do you do it? Only 18 percent of the students said they would, when answering in their native tongue. But when presented with the scenario in a foreign language, one in which they were proficient, the proportion of pushers jumped to 44 per cent. More...
By Ben Yagoda. As I have mentioned here before, my hobby is writing and maintaining a blog about British expressions that have become popular in the United States. I know, I know. Listen, it keeps me off the street. More...
By Allan Metcalf. “I’m so New Orleans, when I go out of town people ask me if I’m Canadian.” A joke, right?
No, it seems that, contrary to all expectations, a certain Canadian pronunciation is beginning to emerge in the Big Easy. More...
By Geoffrey Pullum. At my university the time has come (indeed, the deadline has come) for the process of grading the final exams from the fall semester. I started working on my stack of examination books speedily, accurately, and efficiently, deriving great satisfaction and enjoyment from the process of reading what my students have written. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Non-First-Time Student Persistence Patterns”
Organizations: InsideTrack, American Council on Education, NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, University Professional and Continuing Education Association, and National Student Clearinghouse
Summary: Most experts agree that first-time students are more likely to graduate on time from community colleges when they are enrolled full time. That has led some policy makers and nonprofit advocacy groups to encourage, and in some cases to require, students in certain programs to take 15 credit hours per semester. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: Humanities Indicators
Organization: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Summary: The academy has previously reported on the value of humanities programs, funding for them, and how they are doing over all. This year, for the first time, the academy is posting data on trends in humanities degrees at community colleges, and the results there brighten what is otherwise a gloomy picture. More...
By Kelly Field. Speaking at Boise State University on Wednesday, a day after his State of the Union address, President Obama repeated his call for employers to expand registered apprenticeships and tuition-benefit programs for workers. More...
By Andy Thomason. Two national newspapers used the morning of President Obama’s State of the Union address to publish op-eds praising the spirit of his proposal to make two years of community college free, but taking aim at the project’s unintended consequences. More...
By Andy Thomason. Nine out of 10 public universities use sworn police officers with the power to make arrests, according to the results of a survey released on Tuesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. That is compared with 38 percent of private colleges. And over all the number of campuses using armed officers rose from 68 percent in the 2004-5 academic year to 75 percent in 2011-12. More...
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