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17 décembre 2018

Yes, but for a Different Reason

By Matt Reed. Longtime readers know that I have about thiiiiis much patience for the “undermatching” hypothesis. That’s the idea that it’s tragic and awful when a student who could have gotten into someplace selective chooses a less selective college. More...

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17 décembre 2018

Why Student Course Evaluations Survive

By Matt Reed. Why do colleges still have students do course evaluations? Is it because administrators are knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who don’t know that students’ evaluations of faculty are biased. More...

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17 décembre 2018

Writing Papers on Phones

By Matt Reed. Is a smartphone a necessity for college students today. More...

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17 décembre 2018

Why?

By Matt Reed. Honestly, my first audience for writing has always been myself. Part of that is because it took a long time to develop a substantial readership, but mostly it’s because I use the process of writing as a way to work out what I’m thinking. More...

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17 décembre 2018

Well, Yeah...

By Matt Reed. I was surprised to see the headline “Why Teaching Engineering Costs More than Teaching English,” but not because the content was surprising. I was surprised that it was news. More...

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17 décembre 2018

Friday Fragments - November 29, 2018

By Matt Reed. I spent Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the Middle States conference in DC. In the course of two days, I had several “you are THIS old” moments. More...

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16 décembre 2018

Fun with Acronyms

By Matt Reed. There’s an art to a good acronym. Ideally, it should be pronounceable without much strain. The old PSAT had a slash and a second acronym, based on “National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.” “NMSQT” doesn’t really roll off the tongue. Numsquat? Not good. More...

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16 décembre 2018

Kevin Hart, the New Yorker and the Limits of Wokeness

By Eboo Patel. One of the signature characteristics of contemporary wokeness is to highlight a dimension of an individual’s identity and connect it with a particular talent or virtue or favored worldview. It typically takes the form of pointing to an artist or public figure one likes and exploring how that person’s blackness, or queerness, or female-ness is somehow inextricably linked to their work in the world. More...

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16 décembre 2018

What Makes America Great?

By Eboo Patel. We typically imagine identity-based conflict as fire – think of the burning towers of religious extremism. More...

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16 décembre 2018

Imagining a Different Ending for the Kevin Hart / Oscars Scandal

By Eboo Patel. I believe that the world is a better place when there is less prejudice against LGBTQ folks - when there is less prejudice towards any group, actually. More...

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