Second UMKC Professor Resigns in Ranking Scandal
The University of Missouri at Kansas City on Friday announced that John Norton has resigned as a faculty member of the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. He is the second faculty member to quit who was involved in efforts to provide false information to the Princeton Review for its ratings of business schools. Read more...
Researcher Who Denies Climate Change Took $1.2M From Industry
Wei-Hock Soon, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, regularly publishes articles and makes appearances to dispute the scholarly consensus on climate change. The New York Times reported that Soon took $1.2 million of fossil-fuel industry support for his work, and in numerous cases didn't cite the funding source, as required by journals in which he has published. Read more...
U.S. Proposes Rules for Higher Ed Innovation Program
The U.S. Education Department is today proposing rules for carrying out the First in the World Program, the Obama administration's effort to stimulate innovation in higher education. The notice, published in Monday's Federal Register, lays out the priorities the department will use in awarding the program's grants in 2016. Read more...
Learning From MOOCs
By Marie Norman. I’ve been working recently with a faculty member who is turning his thermodynamics course into a massive open online course, or MOOC. Working on this project, I’ve noticed that MOOCs have distinctive features that can help instructors avoid certain instructional pitfalls while simultaneously steering them in the direction of others. Read more...
Zero In-box
By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Many faculty members feel they are facing an ever-increasing flood of e-mail each day, and it’s not uncommon for people to struggle with managing it. The challenge is intensified anytime you transition from one stage of your academic career to another. In your case, it’s highly likely that the sheer volume of e-mail you’re currently receiving is far greater than what you received as a graduate student, and the volume will only increase as your responsibilities increase. Read more...
Searching While Pregnant
By Joseph Barber. I started my job in career services at the University of Pennsylvania when my wife was already pregnant. It was September and she was due in February. Starting a new role at the beginning of the busiest semester was certainly an adjustment for me. I worked hard to absorb the large amounts of information I needed to use so that I could provide effective advice to graduate students and postdocs across most of the academic disciplines at Penn. Read more...
The Right FAFSA Reform
By Ben Miller. Seemingly from the day it was created in 1992, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, has been a popular target for reform. The Obama administration shortened the time it takes to finish the form by two-thirds and created an automated tool so families can import their tax data. Read more...
Plan to Fail
By Josh Wymore. With tears in his eyes, Michael looked at me from across the table and asked for a second chance. I had hired him only a few weeks before, and he had just gotten busted for bringing alcohol on campus -- a significant offense at this Christian college. I wasn’t sure what to do with him. Read more...
Why?
By Mark J. Drozdowski. I’ve worked in higher education for 23 years, 4 months and 6 days. If you add college and grad school to the mix, I’ve been associated with universities for (let’s see... carry the five... plus two… equals) a long time. Read more...
The Voodoo That MOOCs Do
By Ryan Craig. Young people often have a very different perspective. Consider that one of the most viewed, highest revenue producing channels on YouTube is DisneyCollectorBR. Read more...
