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13 septembre 2015

Doonesbury Does Academe

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/digital_tweed_blog_header.jpgBy Kenneth C. Green. Give credit where credit is due. Few observers capture and skewer academe and academics as well as Doonesbury, created by Garry Trudeau. The weekend and Sunday strips about the mythical Walden College efficiently and effectively capture, in four to eight panels, much of what gives cause for concern to both insiders and outsiders about academic culture and higher education. Read more...
13 septembre 2015

Stories Matter, So Make Yours Better

By Tim Jones. A few months after graduating from college, I got my first real job as a reporter at a small semi-weekly newspaper in southeastern Virginia. More...
13 septembre 2015

My Long Journey to Student-Centered Learning

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/JustVisitingLogo_white.jpg?itok=K5uvzo_-By John Warner. When I first tried my hand at writing fiction, I was working under the spell of writers like Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Bobbie Ann Mason, Richard Ford. Read more...

13 septembre 2015

Lowering your Hackles for Presentation-Based Feedback

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/Screen%20Shot%202011-12-12%20at%2012.29.48%20PM.png?itok=ITDqfJNPBy Anjali Gopal. One of the more common dilemmas I see in research groups is when team members who are required to make a presentation at a conference request advice from their team, and then spend the majority of that advice session justifying their slide design rather than actually accepting feedback. Read more...

13 septembre 2015

Combating Cynicism in Graduate School

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/Screen%20Shot%202011-12-12%20at%2012.29.48%20PM.png?itok=ITDqfJNPBy Katie Shives. Almost every department has that person who has elevated cynicism to an art.  You know the one. That person who is always unhappy with and verbally tearing down her project, his program, her advisor, journal club presentations, or pretty much any part of the graduate school experience. Usually this is a senior student or postdoc, but these personalities can be found in any corner of academia if you look hard enough. Read more...

13 septembre 2015

Shoring Up Weaknesses

By Matt Reed. Would you advise a student with an obvious weakness to take a course in that area, with the idea of shoring up the weak flank. More...

13 septembre 2015

Ask the Administrator: Smuggling in Improvements

By Matt Reed. A new correspondent writes (abridged and slightly disguised):
I have a PhD in English and have been teaching all levels of undergraduate English as an adjunct or on one-year contracts for (more than ten) years. You know how tight the job market has been. More...

13 septembre 2015

Sex on Campus

HomeBy Billie Wright Dziech. Campus sexual assault remained in the forefront of higher education’s concerns last week when a St. Paul’s School graduate, Owen Labrie, was tried for, as a senior, raping a 15-year old classmate who accompanied him to an unoccupied building amid rumors of a school tradition requiring graduating seniors to take the virginity of younger female students. Read more...

13 septembre 2015

Three Cheers!

HomeBy Scott McLemee. On Aug. 10, the City Council of Cambridge, Mass., passed, by unanimous vote, a resolution to which even the local media gave scant notice. But the document merits attention throughout the Republic of Letters. Read more...

13 septembre 2015

First Lesson, Best Lesson

HomeBy Will Hochman. “Correct writing is no one’s mother tongue.”

Peter Elbow

Imagine your starfish hands reaching
For ocean floors, tapping attention alive
You discover and reveal yourself in sentences
That only perpetual error can provide. Read more...

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