By Colleen Flaherty. Controversy over paper in favor of colonialism sparks calls for retraction as well as worries that academics are relying more on erasure than counterargument to challenge unpopular scholarship. More...
10 octobre 2017
10 octobre 2017
Harvard Rescinds Chelsea Manning's Fellowship
By Colleen Flaherty. To some, she’s a hero. To others, she’s a traitor. To Harvard University, Chelsea Manning is a scholar -- or was, briefly. The institution announced this week that Manning, who served seven years in military prison for sharing classified documents with Wikileaks before seeing her sentence commuted by President Obama, was to be one of four new visiting fellows at its Institute of Politics. More...
10 octobre 2017
Author Asks Journal to Pull Pro-Colonial Essay
By Colleen Flaherty. “The Case for Colonialism” caused a stir when it was published in Third World Quarterly earlier this month, with critics calling the pro-colonialism essay offensive and based on subpar scholarship. More...
10 octobre 2017
A Dangerous Withdrawal
By Colleen Flaherty. “The Case for Colonialism” has been revoked -- not over claims of shoddy scholarship or publication irregularities but rather threats to the journal editor. Some call it a disturbing precedent that could make academics less safe. More...
10 octobre 2017
Don't Call It a Comeback
By Colleen Flaherty. Long Island U says it is turning things around, financially and otherwise, one year after a faculty lockout. Professors say the institution continues to falter. More...
10 octobre 2017
Breaking Out of the M-W-F Routine
By Colleen Flaherty. Coker College shakes things up by allowing interested professors to break out of the 50-minute routine. More...
10 octobre 2017
Socially Savvy Freshmen
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Despite the tendency to write off first-year college students as cellphone-obsessed and face-to-face relationship oblivious, they’re socially aware to a degree. At least enough to classify which friends they consider their most trusted and those they rely on just for a fun time, according to the results of a new study out of Stanford University. More...
10 octobre 2017
The challenge of change: advice from Keynes
The challenge of change: advice from Keynes
Harvey P. Weingarten, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2016/08/25
It is inevitable, I think, that proponents of 'quality' in education will call for an end to the mandate to provide access to all, instead focusing on 'higher quality' for a few. More...
10 octobre 2017
Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person
Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person
Dan Colman, Open Culture, 2016/08/24
"Humboldt," Chomsky says, "argued, I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently, without external controls." That sounds about right to me, and is certainly the sort of education I aspire to. More...
10 octobre 2017
Suicide Victims as Art Subjects
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. University of Pennsylvania student’s project has been criticized for capitalizing on the campus’s grief. More...
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