By John Warner. In my general education, first-year writing course, a few periods in I offer students a hypothetical. I tell them they can have an “A” in exchange for never doing anything. No classes, no assignments, no reading, no feedback, nothing. They just have to make sure not to tell anyone because we’d all get in a lot of trouble. Read more...
By Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe. I was never meant to be a secretary. The slippery concept, which encompasses roles from senior diplomats to junior clerks, inevitably involves the management of meeting minutes. More...
By Rosalie Arcala Hall. Two recent news stories caused me to reflect on my scholarship and how much my work matters. First was a ranking of the top 100 Philippine authors in terms of citation under Google Scholar, which yielded a handful of names among my Political Science colleagues, many of them have published works since the 1990s. More...
By Yves Salomon-Fernandez. Two years ago, we established our first institutional mentoring program at the college. I had cultivated Genzyme, a Sanofi company, for some time prior and we benefited from the leadership of two significant executive ambassadors internal to the company. More...
By Itir Toksöz. My husband, being a foreigner and trying to survive in a chaotic foreign city like Istanbul while living with me, often finds refuge in scientific documentaries on German TV channels, the broadcast of which we receive via satellite. More...
By Chris Bourg and Amy Brand. While many libraries are experimenting with new publishing roles through partnerships with their university press, here at MIT we are looking to “hack” a long-standing relationship between the MIT Libraries and the MIT Press. Read more...
By Steven Mintz. Why do over than forty percent of students at four-year institutions fail to graduate?
Is it because these students are not “college material”? Aren’t college ready? Work too much and study too little? Are distracted and unmotivated?
Or might it be that the learning experience itself is at fault. Read more...
By Alex Usher. With all the talk about free college in the United States these days, there is an inevitable tendency to look to Nordic countries to see how the concept works in practice. Read more...
By Liz Reisberg. The announcement that Cornell is adjusting its admissions policy for international students from need-blind to “need aware” only seems to add to the confusion about who we enroll from abroad and why. Read more...
By Kenneth C. Green. At the risk of redundancy (or perhaps shameless self-promotion), several issues from the release of my Going Digital survey earlier this week warrant some additional commentary beyond the reporting from Inside Higher Ed and other sources. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
