A seemingly harmless, inconsequential combination of words can really get in your way, argues Mike Firmand. More...
11 janvier 2020
How One Common Phrase Can Undermine Your Job Search
Expanding Beyond the Narrow Contours of ‘Alt-Ac’
Departments and professional societies have begun to consider what it means to find jobs for Ph.D.s outside academe, writes Zeb Larson, but the options frequently presented are unnecessarily limited. More...
Trying Things That Scare You
Melissa Dalgleish explores why academics tend to keep doing what they're good at -- and why that can be a trap. More...
The Candidates' Higher Ed Bidding Wars
Any proposal to spend federal dollars on higher education should concentrate on those who actually need the help, for otherwise it is money wasted, argues David Kirp. More...The Case for an Institutionally Owned Knowledge Infrastructure
The many bottlenecks that the commercial monopoly on research information has imposed are stimulating new strategies, write James W. Weis, Amy Brand and Joi Ito. More...Land Acknowledgments Accomplish Little
If you actually want to help people, then ask others to do something, writes Alex Small. More...Same-Sex Abuse Should Not Be Invisible
I appreciate the attention Colleen Flaherty gave to the nuances of my recent firing from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The Southwestern case presents questions about academic freedom, race, the humanities and hidden misconduct in the Christian education world. More...The Repetition Compulsion
Scott McLemee explores various scholars' rationales for self-plagiarism. More...How First-Year Comp Can Save the World
What if the best about composition teaching, Deborah L. Williams asks, became the pedagogical default instead of the exception. More...The Mathematics of Flourishing
Scott McLemee reviews Francis Su's Mathematics for Human Flourishing. More...
