By Colleen Flaherty. Many professors say that teaching students how to email them properly is a necessary gift that keeps on giving. More...
‘Don’t Let the Bret Stephens Bite’
By Colleen Flaherty. Professor's tweet about the controversial New York Times columnist goes viral after the columnist CC's his provost on an angry email. More...
Questionable Rejection
By Colleen Flaherty. Sociologist says journal dismissed her paper because she'd shared it elsewhere as a preprint -- even though the publication had a pro-preprint policy. How often does this happen. More...
Why School Reform Is Impossible
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Seymour Papert[Edit][Delete]: Why School Reform Is Impossible, The Journal of the Learning Sciences [Edit][Delete] October 3, 2006
"The structure of School is so deeply rooted that one reacts to deviations from it as one would to a grammatically deviant utterance: Both feel wrong on a level deeper than one's ability to formulate reasons. This phenomenon is related to 'assimilation blindness' insofar as it refers to a mechanism of mental closure to foreign ideas. More...
Positive Returns for Direct Assessment
Secret Searches and Faculty Fury
By Nick Hazelrigg. With a rising number of "secret" presidential searches that leave faculty members jilted, some point to the use of search firms as the cause of the troubles. More...
Guilt by Association?
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Palestinian student bound for Harvard said he was blocked from the U.S. after immigration officers questioned him about friends' social media posts critical of President Trump. Civil liberties advocates fear incident could deter international scholars and students. More...
There Has to Be a Better Way
Must mandatory diversity and antiharassment trainings consistently conjure up dread, sarcasm and contempt? Deborah J. Cohan suggests some improvements. More...
A Contingent Faculty Compromise
Contingent faculty members are underpaid, yet administrators rarely take seriously the arguments championing equal pay for equal work, writes Daniel Davis. It’s time for a new approach. More...
Academe and Anomie
Nothing in our job descriptions requires us to be the best ever with the most publications in the best journals with the most grant money, writes Michael Rocque, so we should stop comparing and ranking ourselves. More...