By Charles Huckabee. William C. Bradford, the law professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who recently denounced scholarly critics of U.S. tactics against terrorism as traitors and “unlawful combatants,” has resigned from West Point, according to reports by The Atlantic and the blog Retraction Watch. More...
By Andy Thomason. We’ve told you about Trump University. But Hillary Rodham Clinton University?
As an Inside Higher Ed reporter, Michael Stratford, pointed out on Twitter on Tuesday, an email released as part of the State Department’s latest disclosure of Mrs. Clinton’s digital correspondence shows she was briefly pitched on the idea of “HRC University.” The source of the proposal: Roy Spence, a notable Texas adman and longtime associate of the Clintons. More...
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said on Tuesday that a “sexually hostile environment” had existed at Michigan State University for some students and employees during a federal investigation into sexual-assault complaints there. More...
By Mary Ellen McIntire. Education-technology companies are hot these days. So are online programs by universities. Pennsylvania State University hopes to tap into both trends with a new effort to turn its campus into an innovation hub for ed-tech companies. More...
By Prof. Hacker. This post concludes my introduction to Jekyll.
By Prof. Hacker. The first thing we probably want to do once we got a site is to change the title and some basic information. To do so, you need to edit the 
_config.yml file on your text editor. The file is located on the top level of your myresearch folder. Fire up your TextWrangler, or whatever you’re using, and open the file as you normally would from inside your text editor. This file is written in the YAML language. Read more...By Prof. Hacker. In this 3-part tutorial I will be covering the basics of my site generator of choice, Jekyll. Alas, Jekyll only really works smoothly for Mac and Linux machines. In this tutorial I will be assuming a Mac machine, but I’m confident that Linux users will find it easy to extrapolate. Windows users, By Prof. Hacker. When I was younger, I would study for my science tests by shutting myself in my closet with headphones and favorite tapes in the Walkman (?! God, I’m ancient). I can’t imagine how I did this and still was able to focus (New York State Biology Olympiad winner for ninth grade!), even though I know that some research indicates that listening to music increases cognitive function. Read more...By George Williams. In my courses, I often put students into small, temporary groups for collaborative work that takes place in class or over the course of a few days. This work ranges from analysis of an assigned reading to researching a local issue to creating a digital resource to conducting an interview with a faculty or community member. Read more...By Amy Cavender. The new academic year has arrived (or soon will, for those who start after Labor Day). Though there may be a certain sadness to the end of summer, a new academic year can also bring the excitement of a fresh start. It’s a time for meeting new people and trying new things, for faculty no less than for students. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)