By Mark Edmundson. It’s fall, and the academic year is about to start again, so it’s time for the annual bout of questioning and self-questioning that we teachers of the humanities engage in all the time, but especially now. Read more...
By Josh Logue. A few years ago, nearly one in six students started at Rhode Island College without declaring a major, and just under 40 percent of them would not return for their sophomore year. Some students were hitting 80 credits earned without a major. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. Don’t be surprised if major publishers show up on campus this fall. In an effort to increase awareness -- and sales -- of digital course materials, publishers are pitching and selling their products directly to students. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. In trying to shore up its policy on professor-student romantic relationships, did Virginia Commonwealth University create and then advertise a loophole? That’s what some faculty members think. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Forget the 2016 presidential race, Putin's control of Russia or computer modeling of elections. The suddenly hot issue at this weekend's annual meeting of the American Political Science Association is what is being called a "baby ban." Read more...
By Lucy Ferriss. Once a year, Flushing Meadows in New York turns into a 22-ring circus of tennis, and people start asking me, as a lifelong tennis player, what all those words mean. I wasn’t going to write about tennis lingo in this blog, but a new acronym in the sport put me over the edge. So here goes. More...
By Andy Thomason. Any employee will tell you that workplace meetings stink. But there is something especially rank about faculty meetings, complete with gaggles of Ph.D.s seated before a rotating cast of administrators and their jargon-laden PowerPoint slides. More...
By Doug Ward. Last fall one of my sons anguished over the price of a $150 textbook for a college calculus class. He looked for a used version or a rental, to no avail. More...
By Ry Marcattilio-McCracken. I’ve fully embraced the benefits and strictures of being a professor in the digital age. In both my online courses and live ones, I have come to rely upon our online classroom portal to disseminate course information, post reminders, log grades, and to serve as the primary method by which students turn in their papers. More...
By Richard Adams. Universities minister Jo Johnson criticises ‘highly variable’ quality of undergraduate teaching and backs simplified research funding. More...
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