By Colleen Flaherty. Graduate school takes long enough already. That’s one of the reasons, among others, why Ph.D. programs tend to focus on research over teaching. A new study challenges assumptions that building teaching expertise has to come at the expense of research preparation, however. More...
Class Size Matters
By Colleen Flaherty. Do smaller classes help reduce performance gaps in science fields? Yes, according to a new study in BioScience. More...
Making 'The Case for Colonialism,' Anew
By Colleen Flaherty. Eight months after it was withdrawn from Third World Quarterly amid threats to its author and the journal's editor and questions about why it was published in the first place, an article arguing in favor of colonialism has been published again. More...
Painting Over Kipling
By Elizabeth Redden. British students paint over the Kipling poem "If" with one by Maya Angelou, citing the British writer's poem "White Man's Burden" and "a plethora of other work that sought to legitimate the British Empire’s presence in India and de-humanize people of color." More...
Asian Studies President Weighs in on Exclusionary Conference
By Elizabeth Redden. The president of the Association of Asian Studies last week wrote a column about the controversy surrounding the association’s upcoming conference in India. Hundreds of scholars have signed a letter criticizing the association’s response to an Indian government directive that Pakistani scholars be excluded from the conference, and a second letter has called for a boycott. More...
The Lay of the Land
By Elizabeth Redden. Third-party pathway programs have a wide range of academic and financial models. Here's an overview and some of the key corporate players. More...