By John Warner. What can we learn from how a good writer works to help others write good?
As a writer and someone interested in the teaching of writing, I think about this stuff a lot, particularly about how to create the conditions under which students can progress towards achieving the goals of being a good writer and writing good. More...
By John Warner. My fundamental understanding of the world has been warped by a now challenged approach. I'm not alone. More...
By Steven Mintz. Academics comprises only a fraction of these institutions’ functions.
In the public mind, Harvard University is synonymous with its undergraduate college, which serves 7,200 students. But two-thirds of Harvard’s residential students are graduate and professional students, and another 22,000 students take at least one course through Harvard Extension. More...
By Matt Reed. On the idea that colleges should be liable for their students' loans.
It’s the sort of idea that sounds good if you assume that every college is affluent, every student graduates, recessions don’t exist, nobody ever transfers, everybody can afford to attend full-time and has no other economic obligations, everybody is fluent in English, and we have unit-record data for every student in the country. More...
By Matt Reed. What does a good first outreach to a struggling student look like?
I have a pretty good idea of what it shouldn’t look like. In my own freshman year of college, I was surrounded by affluent prep school graduates on a pretty campus in the middle of nowhere. For reasons lost to the sands of time, I decided it would be a good idea to try to study Russian. More...
By Matt Reed. Massive cuts in Alaska may be a bellwether.
The news from Alaska, about a possible 41 percent cut in state support to the University of Alaska, came as a shock. The president of the university declared six-week furloughs, and may declare a state of “financial exigency,” which is the academic-budgeting equivalent of martial law. More...
By Joshua Kim. Dean Dad’s voice was ringing in my ears (it often does) as I was wrestling with SiriusXM over my satellite radio service. More...By Joshua Kim. Plus 6 other books that we should require all college students (and misanthropic academics) to read to convince them that the world is getting better, and that they should all stop worrying so much. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
