By Susan O'Doherty. Last week I visited with a friend, C, who is dealing with an aggressive form of cancer. Despite her baldness, pallor, and loss of muscle tone, she looked beautiful, even radiant, and I commented on this. Read more...
16 août 2015
16 août 2015
“Kondo-ing” My College Files
By Heather Alderfer. After reading Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I decided the boxes of college papers in the basement had to go. The six or seven banker’s boxes had been moved from state to state over the last 13 years, and not once had I needed anything or looked inside. More...
16 août 2015
Paying it Forward
By Deanna England. I graduated with my Honours degree in 1998, and a few years later I began volunteering with my Alumni Association. This was a wonderful opportunity to plan events, meet other graduates and give back to the institution that gave me (at the time) five wonderful years of education. More...
16 août 2015
Structural Constraints in Indian Higher Education
By M. Saravanan. India has the largest higher education system in terms of the number of higher education institutions and the second largest in terms of enrolment, following only China. From about 20 universities and 500 colleges in 1947, the numbers have grown to 712 universities and 36671 colleges in 2014. As the number of institutions and students multiplied, there was no commensurate change in the management structure of the system. Read more...
16 août 2015
Who Will Be Karl Marx For This Century?
By Tracy Mitrano. We need a Karl Marx for the 21st century information political economy. Not the revolutionary Karl Marx of The Communist Manifesto, whose influence was more successful as a pretext for anti-colonial wars than for manifesting a “dictatorship of the proletariat,” but the Karl Marx who wrote Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Read more...16 août 2015
Situating Serendipity in the Research Process
By Barbara Fister. One of the reasons library renovations are often controversial is that browsing for books seems to be pitted against creating spaces for doing other things – group work, study spaces, digital humanities labs, academic services like tutoring or writing centers. Read more...
16 août 2015
Open for Business
By Barbara Fister. I was startled when a physicist said to me the other day “this open access thing is a scam.”
“Why do you say that?” I asked, thinking he probably had Jeffrey Beall’s list of pseudo-journals in mind. Beall has gotten a lot of press for his list of websites that pretend to look like journals but really aren’t. Read more...
16 août 2015
My McSweeney's/Education Story
By John Warner. So I am listening to an episode of the podcast that Stephen Colbert is producing prior to the commencement of his new late night television show, and he is interviewing two of his new writers, one of whom is named Jen Spyra. Read more...
16 août 2015
The Opposite of Hope Isn't Despair
By John Warner. When I post in this space, I sometimes get comments or emails from people who see things similarly, expressing gratitude for remaining “hopeful” despite the challenges facing education. Read more...
16 août 2015
Reflections on UBC's Unexpected Leadership Transition
By Kris Olds. On a warm and humid Friday afternoon last week my email in-box pinged with a very important message to all UBC alumni, myself (BA, 1985; MA 1988) included. Read more...
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