By Jacqueline Thomsen. When students at Indiana University at Bloomington are asked to describe consent, they can often recite the lyrics from a student-written musical. Read more...
24 août 2015
24 août 2015
'Off to College: A Guide for Parents'
By Jacqueline Thomsen. As the start of the academic year approaches, parents of incoming freshmen wonder what they should be doing to prepare their children. Read more...
24 août 2015
'Stepford Wives: College Edition'?
By Jake New. A University of Alabama sorority has removed a recruitment video from the Internet after an op-ed decrying the clip as being too sexual and lacking diversity resulted in widespread attention and criticism for the chapter. Read more...
24 août 2015
Ban on Sagging Pants
By Jake New. Officials at Henderson State University on Friday defended the university’s decision to ban “sagging pants” on campus, amid concerns from students that the ban targeted black students. Read more...
24 août 2015
The Hidden Force in For-Profit Closures
By Michael Stratford. The messy unwinding of Corinthian Colleges was an unprecedented dance among various actors: the U.S. Department of Education, state attorneys general, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and buyers like ECMC’s Zenith Group -- not to mention members of Congress and student and consumer groups. Read more...
24 août 2015
New Debt Relief Rules Coming
By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration is planning new regulations that will set clearer standards for discharging the federal student loans of defrauded borrowers and give the U.S. Department of Education new tools to recoup money from colleges where it finds misconduct. Read more...
24 août 2015
‘Serious Academics’ at Play
By Anne Curzan. As we get ready for the academic year to begin (or, in some cases, are already in the first week or two of the fall semester), folks have been posting or reposting some great advice for new faculty members and their mentors. More...
24 août 2015
These 3 Words Are the Telltale Sign of a Rubbish Script
By Ben Yagoda. There are actually, in my experience, two giveaways for crummy screenplays or teleplays. The first is the extent to which characters address each other by name. If you’re writing dialogue with no ear for actual speech, it sort of makes sense to put down lines like “This isn’t about the money, Brian,” or “I long to see you, Ellen,” or “Let’s get one thing straight, Henry,” but that’s not the way real people talk. More...
24 août 2015
Crisis Management and Proper Usage
By Geoffrey Pullum. I learned something frightening yesterday. Just by chance, really. I happened to discover that in the syllabus for a course on crisis management at a noted law school (a sound and well-organized course as far as I could judge) students are informed that 60 percent of their grade will be based on a case study, and “because proper English usage is essential to effective communication, a portion of the final grade will be based upon compliance with the principles outlined in The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White.” More...
24 août 2015
Theatricals
By Allan Metcalf. What’s the difference between a theater and a theatre?
At one city’s convention and visitors bureau, it’s not an academic question. More...
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