By Steven Mintz. Let’s begin with two contemporary koans: Do pet fish realize that they are confined to a fishbowl? Do most educators realize that they, too, reside in a fishbowl. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
30 septembre 2016
Reimagining Regular and Substantive Interaction
By Steven Mintz. For many years, I taught a U.S. history survey course with 592 students a semester – with no discussion sections and only a high stakes midterm and final exam that consisted largely of multiple-choice questions. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
Changing Times
By Steven Mintz. The future of higher education is no longer simply a matter of speculation. It is taking shape right before our eyes, if one knows where to look. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
Is It Possible To Embrace “Uber U”?
By Dan Butin. I have been mulling over David Theo Goldberg’s recent essay: “Coming Soon To You: Uber U.” It is a story of decline, of the university in ruins, of a powerful vision of the liberal arts impaled on the stake of profits. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
Orienting, Not Informing
By Dave Cormier. For the past few years, I’ve been working on making changes within our institution’s New Student Orientation (NSO) process. For some institutions orientation is about level setting, about placement inside a program. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
Is the Future of Liberal Arts Programs “K-Shaped”?
By Thomas Carey. Many of our institutions have initiatives to integrate essential learning outcomes traditionally associated with liberal arts education into all our programs. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
Weapons of Math Destruction: The Dark Side of Big Data
By Barbara Fister. Big data is being secretly wielded in ways that increase inequality and unaccountability, and a former quant can tell you want it all means – most entertainingly. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
Leaky Logic
By Barbara Fister. The news media have been getting complaints from all sides lately. Some of it is knee-jerk blanket blame. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
A Teaching Nightmare
By Barbara Fister. I had one of those nightmares you have just as the new semester is starting. It wasn’t as scary as the one I had when teaching a first term seminar for the first time. Read more...
30 septembre 2016
Living Inside the Internet
By Barbara Fister. Ingrid Burrington is an artist and tech writer who grew curious about the strange hieroglyphics scrawled on sidewalks and decided to decode them. Read more...
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