What We Talk About When We’re Not Talking About Engineering
Kristin Boudreau describes how a play by a student has fostered a vitally inclusive space at a predominately engineering college. More...
Kristin Boudreau describes how a play by a student has fostered a vitally inclusive space at a predominately engineering college. More...
Beyond offering opportunities to communicate quickly with family, friends and even teachers, texting also provides some intellectual benefits, argue Missy Watson and Madhuri Karak. More...
Leveraging new data can help low-income students climb the economic ladder, writes Michael Lawrence Collins. More...
Byung-Chul Han’s In the Swarm: Digital Prospects describes how our society is well down the road toward a dramatically different, digital world. Much harder to discern, writes Scott McLemee, is where, or if, Han sees an off-ramp. More...
The time is right for a more courageous approach to difficult conversations, writes Ronald A. Crutcher, who meets regularly with students to discuss controversial issues across lines of difference. More...
A proposal by the federal Office of Management and Budget would leave higher education research institutions in every state in an impossible situation, write the chief research officers of 12 Florida colleges and universities. More...
We have recently witnessed the introduction of a growing number of diverse plans for free public college. But what we’ve not seen -- and what must be done -- is to determine a set of criteria to judge the effectiveness and the viability of these various financial aid models. More...
We in higher education should set an example of professionalism and clean up our language, especially when it comes to the “queen mother of dirty words,” argues Brent Foster. More...
Scott McLemee writes of the recent passing of George A. Romero, the “godfather of zombie film,” and how his work was simultaneously horrific and satirical. More...
By reviewing common pitfalls in reporting campus crimes, higher ed administrators can protect their students and avoid massive institutional fines, write Hayley E. Hanson and Anne D. Cartwright. More...