Telling Your Campus Story with Drones and Vlogs
What Do Employers Want?
By Margaret Andrews. I teach courses and executive programs in leadership and management and, as part of my introduction to the class, explain to participants why what they are there to learn is vitally important: these skills are among the most important keys to lifelong career success. Read more...
Commencement Remarks
By Herman Berliner. In addition to serving as Provost, I also have the privilege of serving as president of my local school board. I am very invested in public K-12 education and feel we should all do what we can to enhance the educational experiences of our future leaders. Read more...
Determining our Tech
By Barbara Fister. I’m a sucker for optimism. That’s one of the reasons I liked David Weinberger’s recent essay in The Atlantic in which he first describes how the internet has been “paved over” by data-sucking giant corporate interests and then explores how we can still have an internet that reflects and embodies its original ideals – a place where people can share ideas, build their own stuff, and participate in open culture. Read more...
Maciej Ceglowski's Internet Repair Kit
By Barbara Fister. Many conversations about privacy have been happening around various digital water coolers where I hang out, sparked by the work of the NISO Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. Read more...
Privacy, Free Speech and Technology
ASU English: Lessons Learned from a Good Outcome
By John Warner. There is some good news regarding the situation of Arizona State University’s non-tenure-track writing instructors.
As reported on their “asugainst55” website, in a meeting with a vice provost, they were promised base salaries of either $36,000 for a 4/4 course load or $40,000 for a 5/5 course load. Read more...
ASU: Teaching as "Luxury"
By John Warner. In a world of news cycles, the old is constantly replaced with the new, and important stories are occasionally buried.
An important story (important to me anyway) that I wanted to revisit is the treatment of contingent faculty writing instructors at Arizona State University. Read more...
Lessons in Space
By Michael Patrick Rutter and Sarah Shaughnessy. Harvard University, especially in the summer, is a destination site for thousands of tourists. These visitors are not bashful about poking their heads into every part of the campus and pushing on any door that might open. Read more...