By Melissa Dennihy. Conference presentations, oral examinations and the dissertation defense are all useful opportunities to practice talking about your research before entering the academic job market. But when job seekers apply for positions at teaching institutions, research may not be the primary topic of discussion during an interview. Read more...
By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Overworked, exhausted, dejected? If so, you may be treating your job like it's your whole life instead of one piece of a much larger pie, advises Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Read more...
By Monica F. Jacobe. When people hear about a new publication of mine, they are first surprised and then come to one of two conclusions: I must be trying to write my way back into faculty work, or I think publications serve the next step in my administrative career. Read more...
By Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower. Governing boards are dynamic groups of individuals where, sometimes, the whole does not equal the sum of its parts. Read more...
By Scott McLemee. The folklore of Indonesia and Thailand tells of a frog who is born under half of a coconut-shell bowl and lives out his life there. In time, he draws the only sensible conclusion: the inside of the shell is the whole universe. Read more...
By Daphne Patai and Harvey Silverglate. The transition of American college campuses from centers of liberal arts education to ideological training camps has taken a major step forward with a recent redefinition of what counts as social and cultural diversity in courses that wish to receive general education credits at the flagship University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. Read more...
By Wick Sloane. I don’t have a clever lead paragraph for an essay about an oversubscribed conference on college-student hunger and homelessness in 2016 in the wealthiest nation on earth. Read more...
By Gizem Karaali. Andrew Hacker’s The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions simply continues to promote the misguided path he got on several years ago, and it’s difficult to see how it could lead us anywhere productive. Read more...
By Yoram Neumann and Edith Neumann. In its infancy, online learning was viewed as a more accessible alternative for students unable to commit to the traditional higher education path. But in recent years online education has been gaining more acceptance. Read more...
By Scott McLemee. Three months ago, Inside Higher Ed reported that the body of Giulio Regeni -- a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge and a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo who disappeared on Jan. 25 -- had been found on a roadside in Egypt with cigarette burns and knife wounds indicative of torture. Read more...
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