By Susan O'Doherty. My first round of trying to "make it" as an actor — high school through my early thirties — was marked by a lack of ambition that a number of my teachers, colleagues and friends found troubling. Read more...
3 août 2015
3 août 2015
Negotiating a New Social Contract for Digital Data
By Barbara Fister. Tracy Mitrano asks “Is the 4th Amendment dead in cyberspace?” She thinks the distinction between metadata and the content it is attached to can no longer be treated separately by U.S. law. I concur, and agree with her that FISA, a court created after the COINTELPRO hearings to give intelligence services some judicial oversight, needs to be thoroughly reformed if not abolished. Read more...
3 août 2015
Summer Reading Recommendation: danah boyd’s It’s Complicated
By Barbara Fister. I have cited danah boyd’s book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens whenever the subject of teens, social media, and privacy arise since it first came out. She convinced me that teens not only value privacy, they understand why it matters better than many adults do. Read more...
3 août 2015
Finding the Right Book
By Barbara Fister. Joshua Kim honored me by paying attention when I was one of those annoying people tugging his elbow to say “hey, you have to read this book!” (The book in question is Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier. By the way, you have to read this book, too.) Read more...
3 août 2015
Some Thoughts From Across the Pond
By Barbara Fister. When we talk about higher education, Americans have a tendency to focus on some imaginary place that looks a bit like Harvard, has absurdly luxurious climbing walls and lazy rivers, involves months of campus visits and an anxious wait for acceptance letters before plunging students into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. Read more...
3 août 2015
Kevin Carey's Dangerous Playbook
By John Warner. Perhaps if you believe universities are fundamentally dysfunctional and deserve to go the way the dodo, you will write an op-ed for the New York Times as deliberately misleading as Kevin Carey’s latest effort, “The Fundamental Way That Universities Are an Illusion.” Read more...
3 août 2015
An Education Necessity: Mind Blowing Experiences
By John Warner. As the mania for measuring learning “outcomes” seems to continue unabated, primarily through standardized metrics, I’m wondering what kind of tool we can develop to quantify the number and impact of “mind blowing” moments. Read more...
3 août 2015
Teaching Is Mentoring
By John Warner. It is safe to say that I would not be here, doing this, if not for the assistance of mentors.
One of the most important of those mentors was my undergraduate creative writing professor at the University of Illinois, Philip Graham. He’s been present in just about every stage of my career since I first entered his introductory fiction writing course. Read more...
3 août 2015
Aziz Ansari, Public Sociologist
By John Warner. As Aziz Ansari writes at the beginning of his new book, Modern Romance, “When you have success as a stand-up, you quickly get offers to do a humor book.” Read more...
3 août 2015
Contingent Faculty Aren't Working in the Minors
By John Warner. If we’re going to have a more productive discussion about the fate and future of contingent academic labor, (and indeed, all academic labor) there’s a few rhetorical frameworks that need to be retired and replaced. Read more...
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