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3 avril 2016

Who You Calling Phobic?

By Ben Yagoda. In Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony, the presenter J.K. Simmons described The Danish Girl as a film about someone who had undergone “gender-confirmation surgery.” I immediately recognized the phrase — which I wasn’t aware of encountering before — as a foot soldier in a political war. That is, Simmons’s formulation implicitly cast aside other terms for the same thing, such as “gender-reassignment surgery” or the old-fashioned “sex-change operation,” so as to advance a point of view. More...

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3 avril 2016

A ‘Perfect’ Storm

By Ben Yagoda. Randye Green, an observant friend of mine, commented not long ago that she’s tired of perfect. Not because the perfect is the enemy of the good, but because, as she said, the word has become such a cliché. More...

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3 avril 2016

Portrait of the Artists

By Ben Yagoda. On Thursday, Mitt Romney played the “Have-you-no-decency?” card against the Republican front-runner for president. More...

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3 avril 2016

‘Huge’ Is Massive

By Ben Yagoda. It’s a venerable word, dating from Middle English and in currency ever since. Thomas More’s Dialogue of Comfort (1535) has the line, “Howe wonderfull houge and greate those spiritual heauenly Ioyes [joys] are.” Translating Homer in 1791, William Cowper wrote, “So moved huge Ajax to the fight.” But huge has been on a roll the last several decades. You can discern that from a nifty Times tool called Chronicle; a la Google Ngram Viewer, you can type in any word or phrase and see frequency of use in the newspaper’s pages over the years. More...

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3 avril 2016

Whoo-Hoo for ‘Woo Woo’

By Ben Yagoda. Clearly, woo woo has hit center stage, or at least that portion of it occupied by The New York Times. And what exactly is woo woo? Deepak Chopra offered a rather defensive definition in a 2011 Huntington Post piece: “It used to annoy me to be called the king of woo woo. More...

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3 avril 2016

Universities Build a 'Connected Learning' Network for Refugees

By Brendan O'Malley, for University World News. In Kakuma refugee camp north-west Kenya, around a dozen students are sitting in a white pre-fab learning hub the size of a lorry container, with their backs to their computers, having a discussion. More...

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3 avril 2016

As Graduate-Student Debt Booms, Just a Few Colleges Are Largely Responsible

By Elizabeth Baylor. New York University and the University of Phoenix do not have much in common. One is a prestigious nonprofit institution that attracts students to its Lower Manhattan campus. More...

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3 avril 2016

Science-Diversity Efforts Connect Grad Students With Mentors

By Vimal Patel. Most efforts to increase the number of black and other underrepresented minority doctoral recipients in science and engineering have fallen flat. For example, the share of engineering doctorates earned by black students remained unchanged. More...

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3 avril 2016

Dearth of Black Ph.D. Recipients Will Complicate Efforts to Diversify Faculty

By Vimal Patel. As a growing number of students across the country push campuses to become more racially inclusive, one of their key demands is that administrators do more to diversify the faculty. More...

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3 avril 2016

$3-Million Grant Puts Ph.D. Candidates in 2-Year-College Classrooms

By Vimal Patel. Like countless graduate-student teaching assistants before him, Bret Eynon stepped before his first class of undergraduates bewildered and poorly trained. More...

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