23 octobre 2016

By Shantá R. Robinson. Anxious about landing an academic job after graduation, Shantá R. Robinson ultimately discovered that true “How I Made It” stories involve uncertainties, mishaps and mistakes. Read more...

By Patricia Grisafi. Everything changed when my best friend immediately found tenure-track employment while I struggled to finish a dissertation that seemed increasingly like a waste of time, writes Patricia Grisafi. Read more...

By Andy Molinsky. If academic institutions had water coolers and professors liked to make small talk, one of the hottest topics on the agenda would be how to get foreign students to participate in class. It’s a real conundrum, and most professors I know are at a loss about how to do it successfully. Read more...

By Judith S. White. In changing times, our campuses need not only individual leaders but also a collective environment of leadership, writes Judith S. White. Read more...

By Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower. Boards and presidents expect a lot from governance, and many know that they are underperforming and could and should do more. As we’ve written in the past, boards need a certain positive restlessness that keeps them striving to do better. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. In Deciding What’s True, Lucas Graves traces how media outlets’ internal fact-checking has morphed into something almost antithetical: the very public evaluation of factual assertions made by politicians and other news figures, writes Scott McLemee. Read more...

By Bridget Burns. Well-meaning administrators and faculty members have put processes into place that show little awareness of the hurdles students confront, says Bridget Burns. Read more...

By Judith Shapiro. As we consider which aspects of racism we in higher education can most effectively address, we need to make our institutions ideal places for cultivating the sociological imagination, writes Judith Shapiro. Read more...

By Colin Mathews. Proponents of digital badges and alternative credentials have valuable goals, writes Colin Mathews, but are pushing a universal language of credentialing that is unnecessary and unfair. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. In each of two new novels, Loner and Diary of an Oxygen Thief, it is the narrator's attitude that sticks with the reader more than the events recounted, writes Scott McLemee. Read more...