By John Warner. I’ve always felt a little emotional charge when walking onto a college campus. Read more...
18 mars 2017
18 mars 2017
The 'Administrative Fiction' of Faculty Workloads
By John Warner. I believe one of the first steps towards progress in solving problems is to dispel common myths attached to those issues. Read more...
18 mars 2017
My After-Academia Role Models
By John Warner. Because I do not have a personality that lends itself to blazing trails, I’ve often looked to role models to help me figure out a path that makes sense. Read more...
18 mars 2017
The Holy Grail of Critical Thinking
By John Warner. Critical thinking has long been the Holy Grail of higher education. We know we want our students to be able to think critically, and we often even know when it happens, but it’s tough to pinpoint exactly what is happening, or why what is happening is happening. Read more...
18 mars 2017
An Enemy of the First Amendment
By John Warner. I was surprised to find out our secretary of education thinks I'm one of them. Read more...
18 mars 2017
Shared Governance When You Don't Have a Share
By John Warner. When I write about tenure, one of the most common defenses I get is tenure’s necessity for institutional “shared governance.” Read more...
18 mars 2017
19 Theses on Tenure
By John Warner. Well, I created a little bigger stir than I intended with last week’s post on “ending” tenure. Read more...
18 mars 2017
Math Geek Mom: 'Practice, Practice, Practice'
By Rosemarie Emanuele. The economic structure of a “tournament” seeks to bring the best effort out of participants by offering a discrepancy between the reward from winning and the penalty of losing. Read more...
18 mars 2017
Math Geek Mom: What Did You (Not) Do?
By Rosemarie Emanuele. I was thrilled when I taught out of a recent edition of a Principles of Economics text book last semester and discovered that the definition of “productivity” had been changed to “output per person hour.” Read more...
18 mars 2017
Math Geek Mom: A Time Change (or a Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week)
By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I teach modular arithmetic, I often begin by using the example of a clock. Whether the hands of a clock go around thirteen hours or only one hour, they end up at the same place. Read more...
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