The intersectionality of marginalization.
I watched in disbelief as the recent controversy unfolded regarding the Governor of Virginia’s medical school yearbook page that contained photographs of a person in blackface, with others dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan. More...
By John Warner. “Author’s purpose” is a concept central to the Advanced Placement English Language curriculum. Preparing for the standardized exam at the end of the course complicates students’ own writerly senses of purpose. More...
By John Warner. In a widely hailed essay titled “Privileged” at The Players’ Tribune, Kyle Korver of the Utah Jazz wrote about his own awakening to issues of racism in America. More...
By John Warner. I did not plan on publishing a blog post today, because while I had something ready to go, the release of the redacted version of the Mueller Report seems poised to dominate another full day of public discourse, and I figured anything I wrote here would get lost in the flow of current events. More...
By John Warner. “I pray every single day for a revolution.”
Every week brings news of new union activity at campuses across the nation. Whether you agree with unionizing or not, I think it's clear that as the ranks of adjunct faculty increase, the attempts to unionize will, too. More...
By John Warner. Sub-subtitle: What I learned on my New Zealand vacation.
Having booked the trip last fall, my wife and I had been looking forward to our biking/hiking tour of the west coast New Zealand’s south island for months. More...
By Steven Mintz. Higher education has always been in crisis. Virtually every decade over the past century has seen the publication of books and articles on American colleges and universities with the word “crisis” in the title. More...
By Steven Mintz. It’s said that we die multiple deaths: First we lose our health, then our memory fades, and finally our bodily and mental functions cease. In fact, the arc of our departure continues well after our physical death, only to end when those who knew us die and our living memory is extinguished. More...
By Steven Mintz. High quality online education – delivered in a synchronous seminar-like format by regular faculty or asynchronously, incorporating advanced interactives, sophisticated simulations, virtual laboratories, adaptive pathways, frequent formative assessments, and a great deal of constructive feedback provided by well-qualified teaching assistants – is not only extremely expensive to develop and deliver, but exceedingly rare. More...
By Steven Mintz. The costs of ceding core functions
If you haven’t read Kevin Carey’s “The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education,” a chilling account of Online Program Managers, drop whatever you’re doing and read it right now. More...
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