By Rosemarie Emanuele. It is not often that people bearing the description “Geek” attain a status that has others comparing them to “rock stars.” Yet that is exactly what has happened to statistician Nate Silver, who writes a blog about the statistics behind current events, including politics. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. While some propose other ways to interact with data, the idea of “hypothesis testing” still plays a major role in the study of and teaching of Statistics. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. What’s going on with WikiLeaks? A site that originally set out to provide documents of political corruption and reveal war crimes to augment news reports and hold governments accountable has been on a tear of foolishness lately. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. To even speak its name, I know, opens the potential to a Pandora’s box of comments about its very definition, interpretation and schools. Have at it if you want, but to do so is not my intent. Read more...
By John Warner. Administrators and non-tenure-track faculty have at least one thing in common: Both groups appear comfortable with the elimination of tenure. Read more...
By John Warner. One of my favorite – and by favorite, I mean most irritating – responses people weighing in on the treatment of contingent academic labor offer is some version of “There’s nothing we can do, it’s supply and demand.” Read more...
By John Warner. My current sort of employer, the College of Charleston, has stated its top institutional goal is to become a “nationally preeminent, student-focused, liberal arts and sciences university, with outstanding professional programs in Business and Education.” Read more...
By Steven Mintz. The great challenge facing public higher education is to break through the iron triangle: Increasing affordability, quality, and student success all at once. Read more...
By Katie Shives. The final months of graduate school are often the most difficult on students. Years of intense scholarship and research must be condensed into a dissertation in a matter of months, while at the same time planning what is supposed to happen after the defense and somehow maintaining your personal health in the middle of this academic madness. Read more...
By Patrick Bigsby. Job interviews are the worst. Interviews could be opportunities to dazzle our betters with impressive accomplishments and impeccably pressed clothes. Read more...
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