By Michael J. Sorrell. Since 2007, there have been too many of them to name individually. Day after day and year after year, I have listened to the narrative of their lives and heard the stress in their voices. Read more...
7 septembre 2015
7 septembre 2015
The Student's Dilemma
By Lanny Arvan. Suppose it’s been discovered that a person’s thoughts can be mapped from a close examination of the physiology of the person’s brain and, à la Fantastic Voyage, that humans can be shrunk to the size where they can be injected into the brain of another to perform such an examination. Read more...
7 septembre 2015
New and Improved Writing in Your Underwear
By Brian Goedde. I remember well my first class in graduate school, now 10 years ago, because I was only somewhat prepared for it. My pencil pouch held a full canister of lead, but, when our creative writing professor asked us to go around the octagonal seminar table to sign up for our workshop dates, I had to ask, “What’s a workshop?” Read more...
7 septembre 2015
The Atrocity Exhibition
By Scott McLemee. A few hours after last week's murder of a television reporter and her cameraman in Moneta, Va. -- broadcast live, as it was happening, on a local morning news program -- the killer released his own video. Read more...
7 septembre 2015
A Work in Progress
By K. Jamie Rogers. Recent media coverage of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s pre-proposed engineering criteria changes has raised concerns that some of the professional competencies may be removed from our accreditation criteria. Read more...
7 septembre 2015
CliffsNotes for Credit
By Daniel F. Sullivan. At the crack of dawn this past May 15, an e-mail hit my inbox from a friend who knows my abiding interest in getting undergraduate education right: “Take a look at this.” Read more...
7 septembre 2015
Call for Help
By Paul Fain. Jennifer Reyes had reached the breaking point. Earlier in her time at the University of California at Davis, Reyes, now a senior, felt she could no longer cope with the demands of university life. Read more...
7 septembre 2015
Intercollegiate Sports Go International
By Jake New. In November, the University of Washington and the University of Texas will face off in their first basketball game of the season. Neither team will have a home court advantage, however, as the contest will take place more than 5,000 miles away from either campus. Read more...
7 septembre 2015
Looming Battle Over Perkins Loans
By Michael Stratford. Colleges and universities are ramping up their efforts to preserve a federal student loan program that some congressional Republicans are eyeing for elimination in the next several weeks. Read more...
7 septembre 2015
Shift in Focus
By Ashley A. Smith. Seven months ago free community college was the higher ed policy idea with the most buzz, with everyone from President Obama to families with no college experience talking about the appeal of eliminating the cost of tuition. Read more...
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