By Eric Stoller. Open messages, verification, availability, and custom responses. Read more...
Should Admins Be Activists on Campus?
By Eric Stoller. Almost four years ago I asked a question on this blog that prompted a lot of comments, response posts, tweets, and discussion. The post was titled "Where are the Radical Practitioners?" At the time, it was a post that fit with the digital discourse of the day. Read more...
Building Community at #JiscDigLead
By Eric Stoller. The Jisc Digital Leaders Programme had been on my professional "radar" since its debut in October of 2015. Featuring several of the "usual suspects" from the UK's higher (and further) education digital scene, I noted the hashtag (#JiscDigLead) and focused on my own calendar of autumnal consulting activities. Read more...
Academic Freedom Under Threat Everywhere
By Hans de Wit And Kathryn Hanson. In the current political climate, academic freedom is perhaps the most contested aspect of higher education. Read more...
Advancing Inclusive Excellence and Embracing Cultural Dexterity
By Yves Salomon-Fernandez. The value of a women's network.
I have not been shy about professing my deep appreciation for the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Women’s Network. It has enabled me to develop sisterhood and mentorship with an incredible group of women who have guided and sustained me over the last few years. More...
What Will You Do With That?
By Rose Hendricks. I’m on a plane, a route I’m pretty familiar with. San Diego, where I’m a Cognitive Science PhD student, to San Antonio, where my husband is an Army Lieutenant. I hope to write 500 words of my dissertation while large portable electronics are allowed. I can’t focus because the man sitting next to me is staring at my screen. More...
Grannies Rocking the Vote
By Laura Tropp. My doctoral dissertation was on voter mobilization campaigns. After the birth of my children, I moved toward writing about feminist and motherhood issues. Read more...
Parenting Extremes
By Laura Tropp. It is not often that one article can spur combined emotions of fear, guilt, anger, and resentment in me. This past week, the New York Times Magazine featured an article about a father trying to be an anti-helicopter parent. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Sharing a Moment of History (or Not)
By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I created the syllabus for my Statistics class a few months ago, I noticed that I would be teaching confidence intervals and “margin of error” on the day after the presidential election was over. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Wait ‘til Next Year!
By Rosemarie Emanuele. The binomial probability distribution, which I teach in my Statistics class, explores the probability of a given number of “successes” in a certain number of trials of an experiment in which each trial has the same probability of leading to a success. Read more...