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15 mars 2015

Reluctant Crusader

By Tom Bartlett. Why Alice Dreger’s writing on sex and science makes liberals so angry.
Alice Dreger is feverish. On a wet, chilly Wednesday evening, in a high-ceilinged, beige ballroom at the Marriott in downtown Philadelphia, she is taking to task — eviscerating, really — the American Anthropological Association for its ham-fisted handling of allegations made in Darkness at El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon, a much-heralded but ultimately discredited book by Patrick Tierney, a journalist whose tales tended toward the fanciful. More...
15 mars 2015

Can Robert Putnam Save the American Dream?

By Marc Parry. The event is billed as a lecture on a new book of social science. But the speaker visiting Cambridge’s Lesley University this Monday night sounds like a political candidate on the hustings. Robert D. Putnam ­— Harvard political scientist, trumpeter of community revival, consultant to the last four presidents ­— is on campus to sound an alarm. "What I want to talk to you about," he tells some 40 students and academics, is "the most important domestic challenge facing our country today. I want to talk about a growing gap between rich kids and poor kids." More...
15 mars 2015

10 tips to help your teaching placement go smoothly

The Guardian homeBy . Teachers share their wisdom on how to make a good impression while on a teaching placement. Read more...
15 mars 2015

University: 'dropping out was the best thing for me’

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPxnNUZkzq1IINmqwJMRe0Mx9jmcJPvZ89WaflkoXFnHo0R2jfVuceEAwwBy Eleanor Doughty. If your first university experience does not work out, battling on or starting again may not be the ideal solution. Eleanor Doughty reports. Read more...

15 mars 2015

The shifting landscape of management education

By Margaret Andrews. I’ve worked in management education for over 15 years and continue to do so because I believe that developing management talent is important, the need is universal and growing, and that how we develop talent will continue to evolve. Read more...

15 mars 2015

Reaching a non-specialist audience: What’s a scholar to do?

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Jonathan Silin. Owning the ambition to reach non-specialist readers is the first step in making it happen. More...

15 mars 2015

Professor’s mosquito trap showing success

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Léo Charbonneau. Laurentian prof is trying to control the West Nile mosquito population. More...

15 mars 2015

York U professor looks at the roots of religious altruism

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "universityaffairs"By Natalie Samson. Psychology professor Joni Sasaki wins a Templeton Foundation grant to study whether the urge to do good is in our genes. More...

15 mars 2015

The power of precedents

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "universityaffairs"By Ifeoluwatari Ajadi. Marginalized people don’t ascribe to the status quo in postsecondary classrooms. More...

15 mars 2015

Fifty shades of rejection

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "universityaffairs"By Jan Klimas. Bitter like lemon, the feeling of rejection lingers in your mouth for days – or weeks, if you are not used to it. People who write a lot get many rejections and the most prolific writers hardly notice – they simply move on. This is where we all want to be, and I thought I was there, until. More...

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