By Joshua Kim. The NYTimes article on working at Amazon, and the response by Bezos, has struck a nerve on my campus. Lots of hallway conversation have started with, “Did you read the Times Amazon piece?” The sentiment that I’m hearing runs the spectrum from disbelief to denial, appalled shock to barely disguised admiration. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. A number of the best books that I've read this year feature collapse as the central narrative conceit. The books include,The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (which is amazing), The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, and California by Edan Lepucki. Read more...
By Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe. September’s approach hits hard this year. While still in early August, I felt myself cling to emblems of summer with particular ferocity. At first I couldn’t understand my own intense desire to make this particular summer last. More...
By Hans de Wit. The internationalization of higher education (IoHE) is a relatively new but broad and varied phenomenon shaped over the past 25 years by the globalisation of our economies and societies and the increased importance of knowledge for sustaining them. IoHE is driven by a dynamic combination of constantly evolving political, economic, socio-cultural and academic rationales. Read more...
By Qiang Zha. In his book, Who Is Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World , Dr. Yong Zhao offers a fascinating tour of Chinese education and a nuanced analysis that reveals the secrets that make it both “the best and worst” in the world. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In math, we can sometimes talk of a number that takes on the smallest value in a sequence, with all following values being greater than that original number. I found myself thinking of this recently as I realized that these days are the very beginning of a new school year, one that will begin to unfold this weekend. Read more...
By Laura Tropp. The teacher placements for my children come out this week, and each day I check the parent portal to find out who will be the new presence in our lives for the upcoming year. I’m surrounded by other mothers also waiting and concerned to find out about their children’s placement. Through Facebook, I see that people are doing this across the country. Read more...
By Susan O'Doherty. I was not technically abused as a child, but I was not treated well. My father used to hit us when he was drunk. He never broke anything but he came close a few times, and my brother and I both thought he was likely to kill us one day. I was chronically terrified. Read more...
By John Warner. As I prepare to launch my experiment in contract grading – largely relinquishing my control over student grades - I find myself increasingly anxious. Read more...
By John Warner. As I thumb through a bound copy of my creative thesis, received in today’s mail from Converse College’s Low-Residency MFA program, I contemplate the circuitous, non-traditional route I took to get to this point and find I’m a little surprised to have an MFA degree at all. For one thing, my previous experience with higher education, as a graduate student at Kansas State University, hadn’t really meshed with my idea of a creative writing program. Read more...
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