By University of Venus. Last week, Conditionally Accepted published a piece by a faculty member who no longer recommends that her students to go into academe. This opinion gives voice to very real concerns expressed by many working in higher education today. More...
By Pervez Hoodbhoy. Rankings have progressively lost meaning, particularly in countries lacking a strong academic tradition or where academic corruption is rarely punished. Read more...
By Ararat L. Osipian. How can Ukraine, with mind-boggling academic corruption, continue to claim it has international caliber higher education. Read more...
By Hans de Wit. In the Netherlands and elsewhere, there is a trend to move from teaching in the local language to teaching in English. This increase is not welcomed by all. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. At the beginning of the lecture (it was more of a facilitated conversation, but I digress) I asked the students what they already knew about digital marketing and social media. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. What would happen at your university if all in-person questions/interactions from students had to be funneled through your marketing and communications office. Read more...
By Laura Tropp. First, I saw This is Us (Spoiler Alert for those not finished watching the first episode). What makes the show interesting is its storytelling: the show intercuts scenes of three siblings living in the present with past moments from their childhood. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In my Statistics class, we study the “binomial distribution,” in which two outcomes, a “success” or “failure” to an experiment, are examined over the course of multiple trials. I begin my Statistics course each year with a mention of this distribution, and how it affects the probability of two people in my classroom sharing the same birthday, noting that, in a classroom of about twenty-five students, the probability is greater than 50% that there will be a match of birthdays. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. It is not often that people bearing the description “Geek” attain a status that has others comparing them to “rock stars.” Yet that is exactly what has happened to statistician Nate Silver, who writes a blog about the statistics behind current events, including politics. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. While some propose other ways to interact with data, the idea of “hypothesis testing” still plays a major role in the study of and teaching of Statistics. Read more...
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