By Joshua Kim. If you read one long article this month about the future of higher education, then have that article be Kevin Carey’s The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education. More...
What's On Your Laptop Lid?
By Joshua Kim. What we tell the world about ourselves when we open our laptops. More...
My Dad's Three Decades of Academic Telecommuting
By Joshua Kim. A couple of weeks ago we had a good discussion about distributed / long-distance academics. More...
Welcome Michael P. Lynch, Author of 'The Internet of Us’
By Joshua Kim. Combining an author introduction with a book review. More...
’The Human Tide’ and the Baby Boomlet in Population Books
By Joshua Kim. We are in the midst of something of a baby boomlet of demography books. Fans of population science can read the recently published Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (2019) and Demography: A Very Short Introduction (2018). More...
Beyond the Melting Pot: International Students on Campus
Institutions emphasize importance of diversity, globalization and democracy as critical responses to the rising tides of isolationism and nationalism, but international students have experienced something else. More...
A Look at Private Higher Education in the UK
There has long been a private higher education sector in the UK made up of colleges of professional training and niche providers offering vocational subjects outside the Universities’ traditional remit. More...
The Pervasiveness of Manels in Higher Education
By Eric Stoller. I had just given a keynote talk at an event and a panel was next on the docket. Thinking that my work was done, I sat down in the front row and waited for the panel to begin. However, before the panel conversation started, I was invited back up to the front to be a panelist. More...
YouTuber Talks About Imposter Syndrome with Cambridge's Vice-Chancellor
By Eric Stoller. Students as creators, storytellers, and bloggers
It's no secret that I'm a fan of the social media work generated by the communications team at Cambridge University. They consistently create (and curate) quality content that captures the experience of one of the world's leading universities. More...
Emotional Energy
Now that the academy has begun to talk about the emotional labor drained from professors of diversity courses, I am recalling the way I felt after teaching each Women’s Studies class: mentally and physically drained. More...