By Tracy Mitrano. Over the years I have shared a number of personal matters in this blog. In recognition of International Day of People with Disabilities on Dec. 3, I will share yet another personal matter. My brother, Peter, four years older than me, is profoundly developmentally disabled. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Some one should write a book tracking the ebb and flow of the relative power of the three branches of government over the course of American history and how that tide shaped, and was shaped, by the circumstances. For example, Congress dominated most of the post-Republic, antebellum period (exception for Jackson), until the Civil War when Lincoln loomed large over the landscape. Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant made a hash of the executive while the Supreme Court defined the practical meaning of the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) more often for the worse. Read more...
By John Warner. I believe there is a disconnect between writing as it is taught in secondary education and what happens in the college composition classroom.
I know I am not the only instructor who believes that the early part of the semester (and beyond) involves a kind of “deprogramming” of some beliefs and habits that have been inculcated prior to students arriving in college. Read more...
By John Warner. This is a memory I’ve successfully suppressed for years, but it came flooding back to me last week.
When I was a college junior I submitted one of my short stories to the New Yorker. Read more...
By Dan Butin. Student protests are seemingly everywhere. What began at the University of Missouri has spilled over onto college campuses across the country and onto front-page news and editorials from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal. Read more...By Steven Mintz. As long as aviation pioneers tried to mimic birds, controlled, heavier-than-air human flight proved impossible.By Steven Mintz. What if we asked students to collaborate in order to solve an authentic problem? 
By Travis Grandy. Do you ever feel like you want to get more out of your syllabus? Sure, it plays center-stage during the first day of class, but does it really have to end there? Perhaps it’s a matter of presentation. Read more...
By Wendy Robinson. It is Thanksgiving and my house is strangely quiet. There are no sounds of my children running around the house, no popping of a turkey in the oven, no excited play-by-play of football announcers. Read more...
By Anjali Gopal. It’s often not very easy to form good social groups in graduate school. In August 2012, Gradhacker Megan Johnson wrote about the Lonely Life of an Academic and more recently, Quartz wrote about the “general feeling of isolation” as one of the more unsavoury parts of pursuing a PhD. Read more...
/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
