By Matt Reed. Population decline is a common problem in the Northeast and Midwest. The Washington Post did a piece a few days ago detailing who’s moving where -- I had to smile at “white people love Colorado” -- that showed that other than New York City and maybe Boston, most of the Northeast is losing population. More...
By Matt Reed. I’ve been impressively nearsighted since childhood, so I’ve spent more than my share of time in optometrists’ offices. They have a mechanism that fits poorly over the face, with which one eye’s view is blocked while the other goes through a series of different lenses, trying to read the chart. More...
By Matt Reed. I don’t know the merits of the Louisiana case of the professor who was fired for cursing. But the idea of it brings up a side of academic freedom that doesn’t get much discussion, although it’s actually much more real in my world than some of the higher-profile stuff. More...
Graduate school isn’t cheap. On average, tuition for graduate studies is between $30,000 to $40,000 a year depending on whether you attend a public or private university. Tuition waivers and stipends don’t always cover the total cost of attendance, which includes expenses like health care, housing, food, transportation. More...
Regardless of your discipline, there’s a good chance that at some point you will be responsible for teaching or grading writing in some shape or form. Whether they are lab reports, annotated bibliographies, or essays about the application of generally accepted accounting principles to a novel, writing assignments play a major role in many disciplines, particularly with the emergence of initiatives such as Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID). More...
Disclosing a disability is a deeply personal decision, even more so as a teacher.
This post is part of a (somewhat loose) series about being disabled at university, with a focus on graduate school: problems we encounter, how we deal with them, and what you can do that will make things easier for fellow graduate students with disabilities. More...
As graduate students, we are in-betweeners on our campuses: we are simultaneously students and employees. We are in positions of authority over our students while navigating relationships with advisors and mentors that can greatly influence our careers. These kinds of nebulous roles combined with the prolonged transient nature of our degree programs often mean that we get left out of the equation when it comes to campus policies and statistics. Subsequently, we are often overlooked in higher educational research on the intersections of academia and sexual violence. More...
Check out these stats: Between 1995 and 2007, the average age of students enrolled in graduate programs has hovered steadily around 32.5 years old, and the numbers of nontraditional graduate students–those aged 40 and older–have substantially increased each year, based on additional federal government data. More...
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