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9 juin 2013

Does Your Campus Have A Social-Media Policy?

By George Williams. Each Wednesday, ProfHacker hosts an open thread discussion. Sometimes a specific topic is announced, and sometimes the discussion is completely open. Please remember to abide by our commenting and community guidelines. Thanks! Even before evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller hit “send” on his idiotic Tweet, I’d been thinking about asking people what kind of social media policy might be in place on their campus. Read more...

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9 juin 2013

On Fat-Shaming

By Jason B. Jones. I guess people noticed this weekend when an evolutionary psychology professor decided that fat-shaming grad students was an excellent use of his Twitter account. (And by noticed, I mean went deservedly ballistic online. Jezebel helped.) But yesterday Collin Gifford Brooke wrote a really terrific piece on, in effect, internalized fat-shaming and all the different humiliations and stressors that the obese face on an hourly basis. Read more...

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9 juin 2013

Mastering Skype

By Diane M. Fennig. You’ve passed the first hurdle in the hiring process and have been invited to interview via Skype to determine if you will be one of the finalists. Congratulations! This is an opportunity to continue the conversation and stay in the search process. Here are some guidelines to consider. Read more...

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9 juin 2013

U.S. Higher Education’s Global Ambitions: a Student Perspective

The following is a guest post by Lauren Carroll, who will be a senior in the fall at Duke University and senior editor at The Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper. A quick way to gauge how much undergraduates care about a particular issue is to look at the opinion pages of their student newspapers. In November 2010, Duke University administrators canceled a much-loved student tailgating tradition when a cheerleader’s 14-year-old brother was found passed out drunk in a Port-a-Potty. By November 2011, the Duke Chronicle’s student columnists had written more than 40 opinion pieces mentioning the incident, and the topic still pops up in the editorial pages with relative frequency. Read more...

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9 juin 2013

A Blog About Blog Blogs

By Ben Yagoda. I got a bang out of Forrest Wickman’s Slate article a couple of weeks ago decrying the trend of calling a blog post or blog entry a “blog.” Haven’t noticed the trend? You will; it’s a thing. Wickman points out that going along with this can make you sound silly. He correctly calls the late Roger Ebert a “terrific writer,” but quotes an unfortunate Ebert tweet from February: “Robin Roberts is back, and Tom Shales hails her ‘rousing return’ in his new blog, just now posted on my blog.” Brings to mind the Bob Loblaw Law Blog from Arrested Development. Read more...

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9 juin 2013

1ce Upon a Txt

By Lucy Ferriss. As usually happens when anyone in the academy takes seriously the kinds of communication that happen outside the academy, John McWhorter’s recent TED talk on texting as a new language has prompted a storm of controversy and a rush to the barricades. On the one hand, the promoters of new expressions, code-switching, and the democratization of language; on the other, the defenders of clear, concise prose written in standard English, on which the effects of texting become clear as soon as a student writes “1000s of yrs ago” or puts three exclamation points together in an academic paper. Read more...

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9 juin 2013

The Dark Side of Dual Enrollment

By Ken Smith and Diana Nixon. Different students learn in different ways—we know that. Students know that too. A precalculus student I talked to on a recent afternoon failed the class last fall and was on her way to failing it again this spring. Sadly, she will probably fail the class in the fall, too. Despite all the class aids (and there were many), she had not reacted to her consistently low exam scores until I spoke to her after class. Her science major requires that she complete Calculus 1 and possibly Calculus 2. Her mathematics SAT score was 380. Read more...

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9 juin 2013

MOOC Students Who Got Offline Help Scored Higher, Study Finds

By Steve Kolowich. One of the first things researchers have learned about student success in massive open online courses is that in-person, one-on-one teaching still matters. For online learners who took the first session of “Circuits & Electronics,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s hallmark MOOC, those who worked on course material offline with a classmate or “someone who teaches or has expertise” in the subject did better than those who did not, according to a new paper by researchers at MIT and Harvard University. The research, published this week by the journal Research & Practice in Assessment, is one of the first peer-reviewed academic studies based on data from a MOOC. Read more...

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9 juin 2013

Universities and Libraries Envision a ‘Federated System’ for Public Access to Research

By Jennifer Howard. As federal agencies scramble to meet an August 22 deadline to comply with a recent White House directive to expand public access to research, a group of university and library organizations says it has a workable, higher-education-driven solution. This week, the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and the Association of Research Libraries are offering a plan they call the Shared Access Research Ecosystem, or Share. Share would expand on systems that universities and libraries have long been building to support the sharing and preservation of research. The groups behind Share have been circulating a document, dated June 7, that lays out the basics behind the idea. Read more...

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9 juin 2013

Rice U. Tops $1-Billion Fund-Raising Goal

By Lee Gardner. Rice University announced on Monday that it had exceeded the $1-billion goal it set for its Centennial Campaign fund-raising effort. The institution has raised $1.081-billion since the campaign opened, in 2008. About half of the total was raised during the campaign’s initial “quiet” phase, according to a news release from the university. It is the largest such campaign in its history. Read more...

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