By Barbara Fister. I browsed through my blog posts to inspire a wrap-up. A lot about social media, fake news, and net neutrality. Some thoughts about libraries and their place in democracy and in higher education. A few book reviews, a few thoughts about scholarly publishing. In other words, yammering about the same things as when I first started blogging here in 2010. More...
By Joshua Kim. The value of reading books that clash with what we think we know.
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth. More...
By Joshua Kim. Thanks to Amazon's monopoly on digital books, creating my list of 2017 nonfiction and fiction titles is simple. All that was involved was going to Your Account > Your Orders, and choosing Digital Orders.
My hope is that one of the last things that you will do in higher education in 2017 is create and share your own reading list, or perhaps share where we have read the same books. More...
By John Warner. A week ago Monday I posted a kind of lament over the person I used to be and the path I once desired – professor of creative writing – and how I’d “failed” to achieve that goal. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Britain plans to create a new government office that will have the authority to fine universities that do not uphold principles of free speech. In a speech Dec. 26, Jo Johnson, the universities minister, said that universities "should be places that open minds, not close them, where ideas can be freely challenged and prejudices exposed. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Authorities in Cameroon on Dec. 27 freed Patrice Nganang (right), associate professor of literary and cultural theory at Stony Brook University of the State University of New York. Nganang was detained in Cameroon in early December, shortly after publishing a critical article on the country's leaders. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Lake Superior State University on New Year's Eve released its 43nd annual "List of Words Banished From the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness." The university collects nominations all year on a Facebook page and releases the word to honor the new year. The word cloud is from the university, showing some of the previously banned words. Previous lists and more information about the project may be found here. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Dec. 22 that the latest version of President Trump's travel ban illegally exceeds presidential authority. The unanimous ruling is another victory for critics of the travel ban, many of them educators concerned about international students and researchers. But the ruling will not have an immediate impact. The U.S. Supreme Court this month allowed the ban to go into effect, pending its own possible review of the ban. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The American Association of University Presses has changed its name and is now the Association of University Presses. A statement from the group notes its "global" membership, and indeed there are members from Canada, Europe and Asia. More...
By Scott Jaschik. New Jersey City University has suspended its women's basketball coach after a brawl between the team she led and that of York College of the City University of New York, NJ.com reported. More...
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