By Laura Tropp. It’s not often that Hanukah and menstruation are able to share the title of a blog post, so I’m glad to add to the possible answers for those playing Google Feud. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
15 décembre 2015
An Academic Thanksgiving
By Laura Tropp. As a professor in the States focused on analyzing gender and family issues within a critical media studies framework, Thanksgiving poses some interesting challenges for me. On the one hand, I absolutely adore this holiday. I love the days off (my College even throws in Wednesday), being with family, and cooking a traditional meal while catching up with everyone. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
Math Geek Mom: The Naughty List
By Rosemarie Emanuele. I usually teach the “binomial probability distribution” in my Statistics classes. This is a distribution that describes the probability of the outcome of an experiment when there are only two possible results, as when one flips a coin to see whether it comes up “heads” or “tails.” I found myself thinking of this recently as my daughter has been assigning people to the “nice” list or the “naughty” list as Christmas approaches. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
Math Geek Mom: Four Women, Including an Alumna
By Rosemarie Emanuele. One does not have to be a labor economist to know that finding a job that speaks to the very depth of one’s soul is something to be treasured. I found myself thinking of this recently as Ursuline College celebrated the legacy of four church women who were martyred 35 years ago this past week. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
Math Geek Mom: Regalia
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Labor economics studies how people choose the field of work they pursue. I thought of this recently as I reflected on the title that I go by.
“Is your mother a professor?” a friend of my daughter recently asked her. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
It's (Not) the Stupid, Stupid
By Barbara Fister. Like a lot of people, I’m scratching my head over Americans’ apparent capacity to believe six or more impossible things before breakfast. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
The Cost of "Doing More With Less"
By Barbara Fister. Such strange things can happen when you starve systems that were once considered worth funding because they benefit all.
One of the most surprising lessons of #Ferguson was that cash-strapped municipalities were making up shortages in their budget by collecting excessive fines from citizens. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
Shedding Light on "Going Dark"
By Barbara Fister. The reason academic librarians care so much about what we call information literacy is that we think it’s important for students to be in the habit of asking questions, prepared to seek information as they make their minds up, and to be critical about sources of information. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
A Challenge to Yik Yak
By Tracy Mitrano. I have three challenges for the social networking company that runs the Yik Yak site/app. First, attest that never in the history of your app have its founders or employees ever posted racist material, and likewise, never asked or encouraged anyone they knew to do it. Second, establish a policy for your company that its founders and employees will not be allowed to post material, and are also prohibited from asking anyone else to post on their behalf, or even encouraging any form of content to be posted on the site. Third, use some of your well-funded monies to do something positive in higher education, for example to establish a chair in law, history or public policy for the study of racism in the United States; or a scholarship to students of color; or to fund speakers to address issues of racism on our college and university campuses. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
Reversing the Paranoid Style of American Politics
By Tracy Mitrano. In 1964 the historian and political observer Richard Hofstadter published an essay entitled “The Paranoid Style of American Politics.” Worked into a book of the same title, it emerged in the aftermath of the McCarthy era and in the middle of the Goldwater presidential campaign. Read more...
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