By Joshua Kim. I’m often asked about the best way to establish a “presence” on social media. My answer is always the same. Think of social media in terms of relationships and conversations. Read more...
17 mai 2015
17 mai 2015
The 6 Best Writers on Campus
By Joshua Kim. If your work life is anything like mine, then you spend much of your day writing. The amount we write for our jobs is shocking.
We write reports. We write presentations. We write tweets. We write blog posts and blog comments. We write for the web. We write to persuade. We write to recommend. Read more...
17 mai 2015
The Missing Middle
By Matt Reed. James Jacobs published a great piece earlier this week in IHE, and almost nobody noticed. That’s a shame, but in a way, it validates his thesis. Read more...17 mai 2015
A Shakeout Dividend
By Matt Reed. The latest stories about ITT, EDMC, and Corinthian’s struggles -- and I doubt they’ll be the last -- should actually give community college fans some hope.We may see a shakeout dividend. Read more...
17 mai 2015
Disciplinary Associations and Community Colleges
By Matt Reed. Paula Krebs, the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bridgewater State and a partner-in-crime with the New England Cross-Sectoral Partnership, asked me a great question. She noted that only 7% of the MLA membership is from community colleges, and she asked what would make membership more attractive to community college faculty. Read more...17 mai 2015
Placing Adults
By Matt Reed. For years, most community colleges relied on a single placement test given at the time of admission. (Accuplacer and Compass are among the more common.) A score on reading, writing, or math would indicate that a student needed remediation, could start at the college level, or was potentially Honors material. Read more...17 mai 2015
Kids Today: A Response to Mark Bauerlein
By Matt Reed. A few weeks ago, I offered my services to the New York Times to improve its coverage of higher education. This week, I’ll repeat the offer, since the situation there is only getting worse. Read more...17 mai 2015
How Much of Your Stipend Should You Spend on Rent?
By Emily Roberts. There are a few different versions of the “rule of thumb” regarding how much of your income to spend on housing. No more than 25-30% of your take-home pay seems to be the consensus, with a few outliers. But as a graduate student receiving a stipend, does this guideline apply to you? How should you figure out how much to spend on housing? Clearly, whether your university is in a high cost-of-living or a low cost-of-living area will have an enormous impact on how much you need to spend. Read more...17 mai 2015
Using Evernote in the Lab
By Hanna Peacock. As students in the lab we are told constantly to record everything we do… just in case we need to go back and check. “You never know what might end up being important.” We save data sheets from reagents, email correspondences, journal articles that give us ideas, notes hastily written on a paper towel, protocols inherited from from former lab members, etc. Read more...17 mai 2015
Dissertating While Working
By DeWitt Scott. Completing a dissertation is always a challenging task, no matter what life circumstances compete for a graduate student’s time and attention. Meeting deadlines, conducting research, and completing revisions require students to give up large parts of their schedules to acquiesce to these demands. Juggling the time and energy needed to be a graduate student can be even trickier if one also has a full-time job. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)