By Christopher Garland. I tried to put this piece together a few months ago, when there was still time left in the first year of my tenure-track position. But it has taken the full summer to allow for reflection; even now, I’m focusing on what I wish I’d known when starting the tenure-track path as well as what I’ve learned since I’ve been on it. Read more...
By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Dear Kerry Ann,
I’m starting the second year of a tenure-track appointment and there’s one area where I continue to struggle: mentoring. I still don’t feel like I have any real mentors in my department. I have three people who were assigned to mentor me in my first year, but it was unclear what that meant. Read more...
By Don Francis. On the presidential campaign trail, we’re seeing one so-called progressive candidate after another call for the federal government to enact major new spending programs to hold down tuition at public universities. Read more...
By Billie Wright Dziech. Campus sexual assault remained in the forefront of higher education’s concerns last week when a St. Paul’s School graduate, Owen Labrie, was tried for, as a senior, raping a 15-year old classmate who accompanied him to an unoccupied building amid rumors of a school tradition requiring graduating seniors to take the virginity of younger female students. Read more...
By Scott McLemee. On Aug. 10, the City Council of Cambridge, Mass., passed, by unanimous vote, a resolution to which even the local media gave scant notice. But the document merits attention throughout the Republic of Letters. Read more...
By Will Hochman. “Correct writing is no one’s mother tongue.”
Peter Elbow
Imagine your starfish hands reaching
For ocean floors, tapping attention alive
You discover and reveal yourself in sentences
That only perpetual error can provide. Read more...
By Mark Edmundson. It’s fall, and the academic year is about to start again, so it’s time for the annual bout of questioning and self-questioning that we teachers of the humanities engage in all the time, but especially now. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The spike in student loan defaults over the last decade has been fueled by students attending for-profit colleges and, to a lesser degree, community colleges, according to a new analysis of millions of federal student loan records. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration early this morning released a trove of new federal data that show how much a college’s former students earn and whether they are successfully repaying their loans. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. Will a slowing Chinese economy lead to a decline in the number of international students in the U.S.?
U.S. universities have grown increasingly reliant on rapid, double-percentage-point-per-annum growth in the number of students from China, who now account for 31 percent of international students in American higher education. Read more...
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