By John Warner. When I write about tenure, one of the most common defenses I get is tenure’s necessity for institutional “shared governance.” Read more...
19 Theses on Tenure
By John Warner. Well, I created a little bigger stir than I intended with last week’s post on “ending” tenure. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: 'Practice, Practice, Practice'
By Rosemarie Emanuele. The economic structure of a “tournament” seeks to bring the best effort out of participants by offering a discrepancy between the reward from winning and the penalty of losing. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: What Did You (Not) Do?
By Rosemarie Emanuele. I was thrilled when I taught out of a recent edition of a Principles of Economics text book last semester and discovered that the definition of “productivity” had been changed to “output per person hour.” Read more...
Math Geek Mom: A Time Change (or a Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week)
By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I teach modular arithmetic, I often begin by using the example of a clock. Whether the hands of a clock go around thirteen hours or only one hour, they end up at the same place. Read more...
How to Work From Home
By Laura Tropp. I know I should be more sympathetic, but that interview this past week with the male professor participating in a televised BBC interview about South Korea when his two toddlers barge in made me laugh out loud. Read more...
White Privilege in Black History Month
By Laura Tropp. This is the time of year that black heroes become a bit more visible. For example, the television network Nickelodeon is working with the initiative Because of Them, We Can to broadcast a series of PSAs designed to feature children emulating African-American heroes. Read more...
Unions, Tenure and Job Anxiety
By Elizabeth Coffman. During the last few weeks we’ve seen a lot of anxiety expressed in the streets, in airports, and town halls—over immigration rights, the Affordable Care Act, the Dakota Access Pipeline. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Human Capital Investment
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In economics, education and training that will help someone obtain a job is called “human capital investment.” For example, going to college is seen as being very similar to what happens when a firm invests in new machinery, as both investments can lead to increased output in the future. Read more...
#Digifest17 - All About People
By Eric Stoller. Another successful Jisc Digifest conference took place this week in Birmingham. Jisc is the organization for all things digital within the higher and further education sectors in the UK. Read more...