Ph.D. students need to develop more skills around teaching and working with data to assess student outcomes, argues Terri E. Givens. More...Asking everyone their preferred personal pronoun is not a good idea, argues Rachel N. Levin. More...The digital communication platform gives students more ways to interact with instructors and one another and can breathe life into the online classroom, Kathleen Kole de Peralta and Sarah Robey write. More...There is absolutely no way to take a student’s work in any class and put a number or a letter to it in a way that couldn’t be done in another equally reasonable way, argues Dan Houck. More...The need to sell higher education and the liberal arts is real, and there should be no shame in that, argue Leonard Cassuto and Robin L. Cautin. More...Scott McLemee reviews some of the university press titles inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic. More...Defenders of Avital Ronell should look to the uncovering of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal, argues Kathryn Meredith Doyle. More...Masterpiece or not, William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution fills a puzzling lacuna in the Beat author's bibliography, writes Scott McLemee. More...The metric used in the U.S. News rankings is deeply flawed and can encourage a profoundly limited view of the positive impact of alumni relations, argues Sue Cunningham. More...Now that you've spent a week denying that you care about your latest U.S. News rankings, let's cut to the chase. Of course, you care. You know that if your ranking edges up even a little bit, board members, wealthy donors and alumni will eat up the external validation of their college's specialness and attribute some of that fleeting surge of warm-fuzzy to your steady hand on the wheel. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
