By Joshua Kim. Opinions seem to range from wildly negative (“The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education”) to approvingly positive (“7 Questions for Trace Urdan on OPMs”). More...
30 novembre 2019
30 novembre 2019
A Thank-You to Bryan Alexander
By Joshua Kim. As we approach the Thanksgiving season, I thought it’d be a good time to give some thanks. At the end of this piece, I’ll ask you whom you’d like to publicly thank. More...
30 novembre 2019
A New Community College for Marines and Sailors
By John Kroger. Last month, after six years as president of Reed College and a year of teaching at Harvard, I took a new job, as the first ever chief learning officer for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. More...
29 novembre 2019
Teaching and Decision Fatigue
By John Warner. My Twitter feed is highly populated with teachers of every level, and because of this, I see a lot of expressions of fatigue. More...
29 novembre 2019
When "High-Quality" Evidence Maybe Shouldn't Be the Goal
By John Warner. Diets and writing are apparently hard to study scientifically. But is "scientific" study absolutely necessary for progress. More...
29 novembre 2019
When You Can, Hire From Within
By John Warner. It is a fantastic list of entirely doable actions that will nonetheless disconcert many tenured folks, even some of those who consider themselves allies with contingent laborers. As one example, Childress advocates for a redirecting of faculty-controlled resources to adjunct compensation. More...
29 novembre 2019
Guest Post: Weaponized Learning Outcomes
By John Warner. This past July I received a subpoena to appear in the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Tonga. Google maps suggests that if you flew direct from New Zealand to Hawai’i, you might pass over Tonga about a third of the way up. More...
29 novembre 2019
Time Flies When You're Having Fun
By John Warner. From 2003 to 2008, I served as editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, a daily humor website that had started in 1998. It was a very difficult and rewarding job, difficult in that it's a fair bit of pressure to make sure there's something funny to put into the universe on a daily basis while also teaching full-time (as I was), and rewarding in that it's enjoyable to work with writers to try to put funny stuff in the world. More...
29 novembre 2019
Guest Post: Slouching Toward Palo Alto
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...
29 novembre 2019
I Miss Teaching Full-Time
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...
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