By Herman Berliner. In addition to serving as Provost, I also have the privilege of serving as president of my local school board. I am very invested in public K-12 education and feel we should all do what we can to enhance the educational experiences of our future leaders. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. I’m a sucker for optimism. That’s one of the reasons I liked David Weinberger’s recent essay in The Atlantic in which he first describes how the internet has been “paved over” by data-sucking giant corporate interests and then explores how we can still have an internet that reflects and embodies its original ideals – a place where people can share ideas, build their own stuff, and participate in open culture. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Free Speech and privacy operate as integral, essential supporting values that underpin the missions of colleges and universities in the United States. Many of the same arguments made about free speech: liberty of person, association and expression, could be made by and for and about privacy. Read more...
By John Warner. In a world of news cycles, the old is constantly replaced with the new, and important stories are occasionally buried.
An important story (important to me anyway) that I wanted to revisit is the treatment of contingent faculty writing instructors at Arizona State University. Read more...
By Michael Patrick Rutter and Sarah Shaughnessy. Harvard University, especially in the summer, is a destination site for thousands of tourists. These visitors are not bashful about poking their heads into every part of the campus and pushing on any door that might open. Read more...
By Katie Shives. It happens to every grad student in the sciences at some point: your project stops working and things don’t seem to come together. In some cases, projects don’t get enough momentum and early success to even seem like they have started. Read more...By Alex T. Williams. We all know that academia can feel like an “ivory tower” at times. You may find yourself wishing that you could write an article that a general audience could understand—something that does not require a theory section in an academic journal that takes 6 months to publish in, which is then inaccessible to your friends and family. When that urge arises, you should try pitching a story to a non-academic outlet. Read more...
By Liz Reisberg. While New York University and Fort Hays State University in Kansas were pacifying fears in the US Congress about limits placed on academic freedom for their campuses in China, Stockholm University joined the University of Chicago and Penn State and closed the Confucius Institute on its campus. Read more...
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. Last week, I was in Asheville for the Institute for New Faculty Developers, which is put on by POD. These are my “people” now, this is my community, at least professionally. Some were already a part of my larger community, those who mentored me and helped me get into this profession to begin with. Others connected with me over this past year, through this blog, through Twitter, and the community, for me, slowly grew. Read more...
By Kristine Maloney. It was impossible to miss the news of Harvard’s $400 million gift earlier this month. The historic announcement received media attention around the world, spanned several news cycles, and initiated a rash of op-eds and blog pieces that ran for weeks following the initial news. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
