By Lucy Ferriss. Once a year, Flushing Meadows in New York turns into a 22-ring circus of tennis, and people start asking me, as a lifelong tennis player, what all those words mean. I wasn’t going to write about tennis lingo in this blog, but a new acronym in the sport put me over the edge. So here goes. More...
By Adeline Koh. If you’re a regular ProfHacker reader, you probably understand the importance of building and having control over your web presence. We’ve posted a “Website Hosting 101 guide back in 2009, a primer for creating your digital presence in 2011 with a guest post by Miriam Posner, and tips on how, and how often to update your website by Anastasia. Read more...By Jason B. Jones. At a conservative estimate, ProfHacker writers have posted eleventy-billion times about Dropbox, the popular near-ubiquitous service for saving, syncing, and sharing files. And with good reason! It’s a great service, fast, and convenient–especially for people who use several different computers and devices over the course of a day, it’s frequently the glue that makes that work cohere. Read more...
By Goldie Blumenstyk. The movements for free community college and other tuition- and debt-free college programs will get a renewed push on Wednesday when President Obama returns to Macomb Community College, in Michigan — along with Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and a longtime community-college professor — to announce a wide-ranging new effort called the College Promise campaign. More...
By Eric Hoover. It’s time once again to find out which colleges are better than others, at least according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings. For the first time, the magazine has compiled a list of “most innovative” colleges. Criteria? The opinions of college presidents, provosts, and admissions deans. More...
By Charles Huckabee. An international committee that has reviewed the Mexican government’s handling of the case of 43 college students who went missing after their arrests during a protest nearly a year ago said in a scathing report released on Sunday that there was no evidence to support the government’s conclusion that the students had been executed by a drug gang that then incinerated their bodies. More...
By Andrew Mytelka. In the vast lobbying campaign over the safety of genetically modified foods, academic researchers are turning up on both sides of the debate, paid by biotechnology and organic agribusinesses to provide “the gloss of impartiality and weight of authority that come with a professor’s pedigree,” according to The New York Times. More...
By Andy Thomason. The for-profit Daymar College will pay out more than $1 million in response to former students’ allegations that the company deceived them, according to a copy of a proposed settlement obtained by The Courier-Journal, a newspaper in Louisville, Ky. All but $200,000 of the $1.4-million amount will be distributed to former students. More...
By Andy Thomason. The American Historical Association has published guidelines for how historians’ digital scholarship should be counted toward tenure and promotion.
According to the guidelines, scholars should be encouraged to experiment with digital scholarship, but must be prepared to explain the benefits of the digital medium to their departments. More...
By Lawrence S. Bacow and William G. Bowen. What does a small, private women’s liberal-arts college in rural Virginia have in common with a highly selective, private engineering, art, and architecture school in New York City? The answer is that the attorneys general of each state recently intervened to completely restructure the governance of both institutions — in the face of severe financial problems. More...
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