By John Warner. As Aziz Ansari writes at the beginning of his new book, Modern Romance, “When you have success as a stand-up, you quickly get offers to do a humor book.” Read more...
3 août 2015
3 août 2015
Contingent Faculty Aren't Working in the Minors
By John Warner. If we’re going to have a more productive discussion about the fate and future of contingent academic labor, (and indeed, all academic labor) there’s a few rhetorical frameworks that need to be retired and replaced. Read more...
3 août 2015
Police Encounter
By Tracy Mitrano. It was a warm, spring night in late May when my father offered to teach me how to play golf. Mom cleared off the table while Dad put his clubs in the car. Genesse Valley Park was only a mile from our house and we were there in minutes. Dad put on his shoes, paid the starter and we approached the first tee. Read more...3 août 2015
Global Citizenship
By Tracy Mitrano. Ten years ago when I first started teaching culture, law and policy of the Internet, I assigned Friedman’s The World is Flat. One of the attractions of this book was the wide-angle historical lens he offered as a framework into which to situate the Internet. Read more...3 août 2015
Look Forward, Not Back!
By Tracy Mitrano. A connection exists between this morning’s news of the super-breach of federal government databases and yesterday’s report on a new draft cyberlaw of the People Republic of China. Read more...3 août 2015
Ludicrous
By Tracy Mitrano. Zachery Anderson’s punishment for using a dating app to meet a girl and having sex is ludicrous. The crime is in the girl’s false reporting of her age, 17, not 14. Read more...3 août 2015
Is the 4th Amendment Dead in Cyberspace?
By Tracy Mitrano. Over a year ago former director of both the NSA and CIA, Michael Hayden, flat out admitted, "we kill people based on metadata." He quickly distinguished between the metadata about which the debate was focused, telephone records, and other forms of surveillance metadata upon which covert actions are taken. Read more...3 août 2015
Media Day at HarvardX
By Steven Mintz. “You didn’t get the memo?”edX CEO Anant Agarwal gestured to himself and then to me. It took a few moments, but the participants attending Media Day at HarvardX saw that our attire – blue blazer with brass buttons, a relaxed blue pinstriped Oxford (sans tie) and gray khakis – matched. Read more...
3 août 2015
Peering Over The Cliff
By Margaret Andrews. Is higher education having a Wile E. Coyote moment?
Right now it seems as if we’re all watching Wile E. Coyote standing on that thin ledge and we know what’s about to happen, but it’s unclear whether or not he does. Read more...
3 août 2015
Teacher-to-Student Pessimism
By Dymin Ellis. Here’s the thing about applying to college: everyone expects you to do so. Moms, dads, teachers, society.
And here’s the catch: if you’re anything short of a white male, the mere mention of a prestigious institution makes the other guy frown. More...
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