By Scott Jaschik. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, under orders by the head of the University of Tennessee System, on Friday removed from its website a guide to pronouns that many transgender people prefer. Read more...
13 septembre 2015
13 septembre 2015
Mildly Interdisciplinary
By Scott Jaschik. Many academics these days say that much of the most exciting scholarship is interdisciplinary. But some fear that doctoral students feel obliged to stay within disciplinary lines.
A new study finds that increasing numbers of Ph.D. students are pursuing interdisciplinary projects for their dissertations. Read more...
13 septembre 2015
In Search of Needless Words
By Ben Yagoda. In a 1918 version of his tract The Elements of Style, the Cornell English professor William Strunk wrote, under the heading “Omit Needless Words”:
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. More...
13 septembre 2015
Migrant, Refugee
By William Germano. When is a migrant a refugee? As war, starvation, and persecution drive millions of people from their homes and into strange lands, reportage struggles to parse the distinctions between refugee, displaced person, migrant, immigrant, and other terms for people on whom calamity has been visited and movement made inevitable. More...
13 septembre 2015
Top o’ the Morning
By Allan Metcalf. What o’clock is it? Breakfast perhaps. Drop the f from of and enjoy your cup of Chock Full o’ Nuts coffee, along with Land O Lakes butter on your toast. More...
13 septembre 2015
Love Game
By Lucy Ferriss. Once a year, Flushing Meadows in New York turns into a 22-ring circus of tennis, and people start asking me, as a lifelong tennis player, what all those words mean. I wasn’t going to write about tennis lingo in this blog, but a new acronym in the sport put me over the edge. So here goes. More...
13 septembre 2015
Starting Your Own Website: Reclaim Your Hosting
By Adeline Koh. If you’re a regular ProfHacker reader, you probably understand the importance of building and having control over your web presence. We’ve posted a “Website Hosting 101 guide back in 2009, a primer for creating your digital presence in 2011 with a guest post by Miriam Posner, and tips on how, and how often to update your website by Anastasia. Read more...13 septembre 2015
Dropbox’s File Request Eases Receiving Files and Assignments
By Jason B. Jones. At a conservative estimate, ProfHacker writers have posted eleventy-billion times about Dropbox, the popular near-ubiquitous service for saving, syncing, and sharing files. And with good reason! It’s a great service, fast, and convenient–especially for people who use several different computers and devices over the course of a day, it’s frequently the glue that makes that work cohere. Read more...13 septembre 2015
President Obama to Announce a New ‘College Promise’ Campaign
By Goldie Blumenstyk. The movements for free community college and other tuition- and debt-free college programs will get a renewed push on Wednesday when President Obama returns to Macomb Community College, in Michigan — along with Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and a longtime community-college professor — to announce a wide-ranging new effort called the College Promise campaign. More...
13 septembre 2015
Annual Rankings Include ‘Most Innovative’ Colleges
By Eric Hoover. It’s time once again to find out which colleges are better than others, at least according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings. For the first time, the magazine has compiled a list of “most innovative” colleges. Criteria? The opinions of college presidents, provosts, and admissions deans. More...
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