By Ashley A. Smith. More part-time community college students are coming to class prepared, working with instructors and participating with other students. Read more...
15 mars 2015
15 mars 2015
Pi Day of the Century
By Kaitlin Mulhere. Math’s annual day in the headlines is approaching, and this year, the spotlight is extra exact. That’s because Saturday is the most accurate Pi Day of the entire 21st century.
Pi Day is celebrated every March 14 in honor of the mathematical constant pi. The number, which rounds to 3.14, represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Read more...
15 mars 2015
Wanting More Say
By Colleen Flaherty. Do most presidents really want a bigger role in faculty hiring and tenure decisions? Inside Higher Ed’s annual Survey of College and University Presidents suggests they do. And some of them are playing a larger role than faculty leaders might find reasonable. Ten percent of private college presidents, for example, say they've blocked the hire of scholars whose views they strongly disagreed with. While those findings didn't shock shared governance experts, some were uncomfortable with presidential sentiments. Read more...
15 mars 2015
Beyond the Backlash
By Carl Straumsheim. Not only will journal editors for the International Studies Association continue to be free to blog, but last year’s debate about the professional value of blogging has spawned an initiative within the organization to explore how online media can benefit scholars in the field. Read more...
15 mars 2015
'How Did You Get Here?'
By Scott Jaschik. The students profiled in How Did You Get Here? Students With Disabilities and Their Journeys to Harvard (Harvard Education Press) had much to overcome. They faced a range of disabilities and also attitudes of some who demeaned them and suggested that they wouldn't amount to much. The book is based on interviews with the students about how they persevered, and how they think about Harvard University and their futures. Read more...
15 mars 2015
Feds’ Debt Collector Drama
By Michael Stratford. Two of the debt collection companies that the U.S. Department of Education earlier this month accused of misleading borrowers could potentially continue to collect defaulted loans on the department’s behalf under a different contract. Read more...
15 mars 2015
'Bill of Rights' for Student Borrowers
By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it plans to create a centralized complaint system for federal student loan borrowers as well as a single Web site where they can manage their loan payments. Read more...
15 mars 2015
GTD for academics: The mindset and the precepts
By Robert Talbert. Like many of you, I have a lot going on both in my professional as well as my personal life. Also like many of you, I am pretty committed to finding and maintaining a healthy work/life balance so that I can get maximum enjoyment out of both life and work. More...
15 mars 2015
Don’t Divide Teaching and Research
By Carolyn Thomas. We excel, in the research university, at preparing our students to do world-class research — everywhere except the classrooms in which they teach. From the beginning we insist that Ph.D. applicants explain their research plans. When they arrive we put them through their paces in methodology classes, carefully taking apart their ideas of what they want to accomplish and introducing them to the hard work of gathering data, performing analyses, testing and retesting hypotheses, and exploring all possible outcomes. More...
15 mars 2015
Teaching While Black
By Montré D. Carodine. “There will never be a nigger SAE … You can hang him from a tree, but they will never sign with me … There will never be a nigger SAE.”
That vile chant has reverberated in my head throughout these last couple of days. More...
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