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3 avril 2019

Higher Ed and the Shifting Life Course

By Steven Mintz. Not very long ago, the life course was divided into three parts: a period of preparation, a period of family and work, and a period of retirement. In recent years, that tripartite division of the life course has broken down. No longer are education, work, and family responsibilities siloed off from one another. More...

3 avril 2019

Community Colleges and the Future of Higher Education

By Steven Mintz. The cornerstones of success
If this country is to achieve its postsecondary attainment goals and bring many more Americans to a bright future, community colleges will bear much of the responsibility. More...

3 avril 2019

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: A Mixed Review

By Barbara Fister. I have finally finished reading Shoshana Zuboff’s epic book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. It’s an impressive work that ties together a lot of trends into a very spooky picture of where we are headed when intimate data about each of us is used as the raw material for prediction and control. More...

3 avril 2019

Adulting for the Web

By Barbara Fister. The web turned thirty this week. I still remember when I heard about it, nearly thirty years ago. A central-casting computer geek from our IT department tried to describe this new, exciting thing to me as I was trying to figure out if I could do something with hypercards on the NeXT computer that had improbably landed on my desk. More...

3 avril 2019

Plagiarism Policing and Profit

By Barbara Fister. John Warner had a perfect response to the news that Turnitin has been sold for big bucks. First imagined in 1998, it launched as an ed-tech product along with the Plagiarism.org site in 2000, but even then it had ambitions to be used in publishing as well. More...

3 avril 2019

Beyond the Battle for Open Access

By Barbara Fister. Facing resistence from UC and others, what's the Big Deal of the future?
A lot is going on in the world of scholarly and scientific publishing. So much that I have had trouble keeping up, especially since I’m also trying to keep up on what’s happening in technology – big data, artificial intelligence, surveillance capitalism, things I wasn’t taught in library school because they didn’t exist yet. More...

3 avril 2019

No Big Deal

By Barbara Fister. Perhaps the era of the Big Deal is ending. It hasn’t been sustainable for years, and now research libraries around the country are following the lead of the University of California and several European library consortia, walking away from deals that extract money from subscriptions and authors at an extortionate price. More...

3 avril 2019

Wellness, a Link Roundup

With all the mental, emotional, and physical stress of graduate school, it is important to make sure that you take time to check in with yourself, to recognize that you are a whole person with a body as well as a mind. Since many of us have spring breaks coming up, we thought it would be nice to go through some of our recent posts on wellness and inspire you to take a little time off for self-care. More...

3 avril 2019

Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For Your CV

Using the skills you learned in graduate school to take on a more active role in your local government. More...

3 avril 2019

Labor Organizing and Academia

Recognizing the parallels between your work as a graduate student and that of labor organizers in academia. More...

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