Sur le blog Educpros de François Fourcade. J’écris ce papier de rentrée de Nouméa où j’anime un séminaire de formation continue. Et une nouvelle fois, je ne peux que constater la difficulté que les managers éprouvent à se dire et surtout à s’écrire. Nous avons en effet lancé une plate-forme pour recueillir le témoignage des quelque 700 cadres dirigeants formés sur le territoire ces dernières années en Nouvelle Calédonie, afin de faire émerger des thématiques communes sur lesquelles il aurait été possible de proposer de nouvelles formations. Voir l'article...
Higher-Ed Groups Criticize Obama’s Overtime-Pay Proposal
By Nick DeSantis. A coalition of higher-education organizations on Friday criticized the Obama administration’s proposed changes in federal rules on overtime pay that would raise the annual salary cutoff below which workers are generally eligible to receive such pay. More...
Universities Are Falling Behind on Reproducibility Reform, Scientists Say
By Paul Voosen. When it comes to ensuring that their faculty members produce rigorous, reproducible research, universities are not making the grade, according to a critique published on Tuesday in the journal Nature by a trio of scientists. More...
Fight Over Cooper Union’s Decision to Charge Tuition Nears an End
By Charles Huckabee. A major battle over the future of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art appears to be coming to an end, according to statements released on Tuesday by the prestigious Manhattan college’s Board of Trustees and a coalition of professors, alumni, and students who sued in 2014 to block the board’s plan to start charging undergraduate tuition. More...
Academics Who Criticize War on Terror Are ‘Lawful Targets,’ West Point Professor Says
By Charles Huckabee. Legal scholars who criticize U.S. tactics against terrorists are committing treasonous acts in support of an enemy, and they and the law schools that employ them should be regarded as “lawful targets” for military attacks, a law professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point argued in an article published recently by a student-edited law journal. More...
West Point Professor Who Slammed Critics of War on Terror as Traitors Resigns
By Charles Huckabee. William C. Bradford, the law professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who recently denounced scholarly critics of U.S. tactics against terrorism as traitors and “unlawful combatants,” has resigned from West Point, according to reports by The Atlantic and the blog Retraction Watch. More...
Hillary Clinton Was Pitched on Creating Her Own University
By Andy Thomason. We’ve told you about Trump University. But Hillary Rodham Clinton University?
As an Inside Higher Ed reporter, Michael Stratford, pointed out on Twitter on Tuesday, an email released as part of the State Department’s latest disclosure of Mrs. Clinton’s digital correspondence shows she was briefly pitched on the idea of “HRC University.” The source of the proposal: Roy Spence, a notable Texas adman and longtime associate of the Clintons. More...
What Exactly Does the Education Dept. Say Michigan State Did Wrong?
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said on Tuesday that a “sexually hostile environment” had existed at Michigan State University for some students and employees during a federal investigation into sexual-assault complaints there. More...
Penn State Starts Network for Entrepreneurs With Focus on Online Learning
By Mary Ellen McIntire. Education-technology companies are hot these days. So are online programs by universities. Pennsylvania State University hopes to tap into both trends with a new effort to turn its campus into an innovation hub for ed-tech companies. More...
How (and Why) to Generate a Static Website Using Jekyll, Part 3

- In Part 1, I made the case for building a static website, and I showed you how to install Jekyll.
- In Part 2, you learned how to configure your site, and I explained Jekyll’s different components.