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5 juillet 2015

Restarting a Stalled Project

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/Screen%20Shot%202011-12-12%20at%2012.29.48%20PM.png?itok=ITDqfJNPBy Katie Shives. It happens to every grad student in the sciences at some point: your project stops working and things don’t seem to come together. In some cases, projects don’t get enough momentum and early success to even seem like they have started. Read more...
5 juillet 2015

Escaping the Ivory Tower

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/Screen%20Shot%202011-12-12%20at%2012.29.48%20PM.png?itok=ITDqfJNPBy Alex T. Williams. We all know that academia can feel like an “ivory tower” at times. You may find yourself wishing that you could write an article that a general audience could understand—something that does not require a theory section in an academic journal that takes 6 months to publish in, which is then inaccessible to your friends and family. When that urge arises, you should try pitching a story to a non-academic outlet. Read more...
5 juillet 2015

Fostering an Active Online Discussion

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/Screen%20Shot%202011-12-12%20at%2012.29.48%20PM.png?itok=ITDqfJNPBy Heather VanMouwerik. When I was an undergraduate, in those heady days of invite-only Gmail accounts and “Heather is…” Facebook statuses, there were only two ways to communicate with classmates: seeing them in class or stalking them after. Read more...
5 juillet 2015

Ph.D. Passion

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/Screen%20Shot%202011-12-12%20at%2012.29.48%20PM.png?itok=ITDqfJNPBy Danielle Marias. While exchanging pleasantries with fellow graduate students at a climate change conference, someone joked about the lack of funding for scientific research. Read more...
5 juillet 2015

Build a Professional Website This Summer (Without HTML)

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/Screen%20Shot%202011-12-12%20at%2012.29.48%20PM.png?itok=ITDqfJNPBy Travis Grandy. With the school year coming to a close, it’s a great time to start mapping out some summer projects, including developing your online presence. Now, managing your online reputation includes a lot more than just a personal website (Twitter, Academia.edu, and LinkedIn are a few other places you might want to think about). Read more...
5 juillet 2015

Culture, Politics and Star Trek

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/the_world_view_blog_header.jpg?itok=P3OlGEpQBy Liz Reisberg. While New York University and Fort Hays State University in Kansas were pacifying fears in the US Congress about limits placed on academic freedom for their campuses in China, Stockholm University joined the University of Chicago and Penn State and closed the Confucius Institute on its campus. Read more...

5 juillet 2015

Further Reflections on the Brazilian Mobility Program

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/the_world_view_blog_header.jpg?itok=P3OlGEpQBy Marcelo Knobel. A recent blog by Luciane Stallivieri about the ambitious Brazilian mobility program of college students (Brazil's Science Without Borders Program, May 31, 2015) hit the nail on the head regarding several issues in this debate. Read more...

5 juillet 2015

Free Tuition: A Rocky Rollout in Chile

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/the_world_view_blog_header.jpg?itok=P3OlGEpQBy Alex Usher. So the big news in May in Santiago was the announcement of the start of the "free tuition" plan, that was part of President Michelle Bachelet's election platform in 2013.  Only it's not quite free tuition, and it's still not clear how it will be paid for. Read more...

5 juillet 2015

The EHEA and ASEM: Creating Regions of Higher Education

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/globalhighered.jpgBy Kris Olds. Editor's note: Que Anh Dang is a Marie Curie Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. This guest entry is based on her direct observations at Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Education Process and European Higher Education Area (EHEA) ministerial meetings in April and May 2015. Read more...
5 juillet 2015

Reflections From a New Faculty Developer

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/CRW.jpgBy Lee Skallerup Bessette. Last week, I was in Asheville for the Institute for New Faculty Developers, which is put on by POD. These are my “people” now, this is my community, at least professionally. Some were already a part of my larger community, those who mentored me and helped me get into this profession to begin with. Others connected with me over this past year, through this blog, through Twitter, and the community, for me, slowly grew. Read more...
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