By John Warner. I’ve been reading a lot of education-related books lately. Some of it is because I’ve gotten especially interested in education reform and I’ve been hoovering up as much as I can manage on the subject.
Also, I just like reading.
A handful of brief capsule reviews/responses on my recent reads. Read more...
By Matt Reed. The Dog has been missing for over a week. She broke free when I was trying to drop her off at a kennel before a weekend trip that ended up not happening; she has since been seen mostly in the Southwick, MA and Granby, CT areas. We’ve been distributing flyers, working Facebook and Twitter, putting up posters, calling animal control offices, setting humane traps, and doing just about everything possible short of actually catching her. Read more...
By Jason McSheene. You knew it was coming. Your social media feeds were filled with videos of friends and family dumping buckets of ice water on their heads. After a week or two of dodging, you thought you were in the clear. The fad had to pass soon, right? But then, your Aunt Nora Mae blindsided you with a nomination to either do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge or donate to the ALS Association. Read more...
By Natascha Chtena. Surrounded by media reports that claim early risers are the most successful, productive, and happy among us, I used to feel guilty for being a night owl. Well-intentioned friends and mentors also kept insisting that waking up at dawn would be the solution to my frequent burnouts and help me manage my workload better. I tried multiple times to set my alarm to 5:00AM, but failed to get up every single time. Read more...
By Natascha Chtena. The student/advisor dynamic can be one of the most rewarding or most fraught relationships in graduate school, and choosing the right mentor is one of the most important decisions you will make as a graduate student. A positive relationship with your advisor can help you reach your full potential as an academic researcher, while a negative relationship can make the process extremely difficult—so much so that some students don’t finish their programs or leave with a Masters rather than complete their PhDs. Read more...
By Randy Malamud. If your college or university is anything like mine – seeking significantly increased resources to enable all the research, student aid, and facilities development that we would like to support – then perhaps you’ve been watching this summer’s social media phenom of the ALS ice bucket challenge with a sense of envy. Read more...
By Jake New. In their 2011 book Academically Adrift, authors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, argued that colleges are failing to educate students. Many undergraduates, the authors wrote, are "drifting through college without a clear sense of purpose," with more than a third of students not demonstrating any significant improvement in learning over four years in college. Read more...
By Paul Fain. A growing number of states are using lottery money for college scholarships. But the politically popular lottery funds often fail to live up to their expectations, according to a new report from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. The report breaks down how 11 states have earmarked lottery revenue for higher education. Read more...
By Brian Mathews. This is a tool concept that I want to explore. The blue line represents “everything we want to do” in our ideal state. This requires looking across all services and removing (or sunsetting) the ones that are no longer essential. The objective is to gather everything that represents what we should be doing. More...
By Julia H. Chang. Is gender theory relevant to undergraduate students? Skeptics have long dismissed theory’s intellectual import largely on the basis of style. In the 90s, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, and Homi Bhabha were scrutinized for their “pretentiously opaque” prose, “bad writing,” and “indecipherable jargon” respectively. Of course not all scholars are equally subject to these sorts of critiques. As Butler noted in her response, “The targets … have been restricted to scholars on the left whose work focuses on topics like sexuality, race, nationalism and the workings of capitalism.” Refuting similar critiques in regard to queer theory, Michael Warner has recently asserted that “the attack on difficult style has often been a means to reassert the very standards of common sense that queer theory rightly challenged.” More...
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