By John Warner. Last Thursday, on the eve of University Press Week, Stanford University’s Office of the Provost delivered its much-anticipated report on the future of Stanford University Press. The report says much about the elite university’s priorities. It also reveals how little the committee understands scholarly publishing. More...
By John Warner. But that doesn't mean I'm ever going back.
I thought teaching a single class after being away for two years would ease some of my longing for the classroom. More...
By Steven Mintz. The steps that institutions need to enhance student success are not a secret. The broad access campuses that have moved the needle on retention and graduation rates have advanced along similar paths. Here are the eight pillars of student success. More...
By Steven Mintz. It’s higher ed’s catchphrase of the moment. Career readiness speaks to a host of concerns:
Employers and students themselves worry about college graduates’ career preparedness. More...
By Steven Mintz. At Hunter College, which Princeton Review calls the crown jewel of the City University of New York system, the best predictor of whether students will graduate or drop out is their record during their first semester. More...
By Steven Mintz. The primary challenge facing educational innovators is not what to do. The answers are widely known: these include effective onboarding of new students, a curriculum that students find relevant, exposure to active-learning pedagogies and high-impact practices, data-informed advising, and wraparound support services. More...
By Barbara Fister. … when journalism is struggling to simply exist in the world of big money.
As frequently happens to me (probably the fault of never quite overcoming being an undergraduate), I came across three new research reports on the same day that seem connected. More...
By Barbara Fister. The Wall Street Journal seems shocked and appalled that Google modifies its search algorithms. Well, duh. More...
By Barbara Fister. I was talking to my partner one evening last week when my phone died, midsentence. The apple symbol flashed a few times, then the screen went dark. Plugging it in didn’t help. All the usual resuscitation moves failed. I was phoneless, and it rattled me. More...
By Barbara Fister. All too often I hear a couple of falsehoods slung around carelessly.
These pronouncements are often made by people who purport to think critically, but if you ask for evidence for those claims, you’ll get, “Well, I mean, duh. Everyone knows …” followed by anecdotal examples of jargon-laden writing or vague slurs about millennials. More...
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