By Matt Reed. I try not to subject the kids to too many of my pet obsessions. Last weekend, though, I just couldn’t resist.
How often do you get to see the Magna Carta?
We took the kids to the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, to see the “Radical Words” exhibit. It’s there for a few more weeks, and I really can’t recommend it highly enough. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Many of us are very curious about the new Unizin Consortium, and what the emergence of Unizin means to schools that use the Canvas LMS but that are not members of the group.
Jared Stein, Instructure’s VP of Research and Education, graciously agreed to tackle my questions. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Apple just released the new thinner, lighter and faster iPad Air 2. I am not enthused. You?
The strange thing is that I continue to think that higher ed one-to-one iPad programs are a good idea. I like the iPad Mini and the iTunes U Courses app. I think that it makes sense to put all of the curriculum of a program, all the articles and book chapters and videos, into an iTunes U course. Read more...
By Shira Lurie. Katy Meyers Emery has ingeniously compared graduate school to a zombie apocalypse. She is certainly correct that “the rise of the undead serves as a great metaphor for grad school.” As my doctoral career gets underway, I have personally likened success in grad school to a high-security bank vault. You need a good plan, a special set of skills, and a lot of hard work to break in, but the treasure inside will pay off big. If you have ever seen a heist movie, you know that the first thing every good heist leader must do is assemble a crack team. Read more...
By Hanna Peacock. Much of what we do as STEM grad students is creative. Troubleshooting experiments, planning a talk, or designing a poster all require imaginative thinking in some form. Oftentimes, our best ideas aren’t produced when sitting behind our laptops. They come to us while washing dishes, daydreaming, or in the shower. That is, some of our best ideas happen when we are not in the lab or the office. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. This stream of consciousness was provoked by a job ad that a Twitter friend linked to seeking a librarian whose role would be assessment and marketing. At first I thought perhaps they want to hire someone who lead assessment of student learning and also do some promotional work for the library - help publicize new electronic resources, populate an interesting Twitter feed or Tumblr, take charge of those television screens that seem to be sprouting all over campuses and need to be fed advertisements for events and such. Librarians often have multiple responsibilities. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. The story of Greek mathematician and philosopher Hypatia (an ancient woman!), who was killed in 415 AD is at least part of the inspiration for the bulletin board that stood outside the Math department for several years. It read “Do something Dangerous: Study Math”, and reflected the fact that at various times in history, knowledge of math was viewed as dangerous and illegal. Hypatia was just one of many who were persecuted for knowing and teaching math over the centuries. Indeed, the Jesuit explorer Mateo Ricci wrote home in the early 1600s that in China, it was illegal, under threat of death, to study math, unless granted permission by the emperor. The knowledge that knowing math brought with it was seen as subversive and dangerous by those in power, and was therefore sometimes forbidden by law. I found myself thinking of this recently as I learned of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a teenage girl from Pakistan who almost died in her attempts to help girls obtain an education. Read more...By Susan O'Doherty. Bill is recovering well from his surgery. He isn't out and about on his own yet, but he is able to move around the apartment well; he is no longer using painkillers; and his surgeon, visiting nurse, and physical therapist are all pleased. Read more...
By Paula Krebs. Most folks at doctoral institutions don't have a clue what goes on in community colleges. The departments don't, the individual faculty members don't, and it would be a rare graduate adviser indeed who had ever set foot on a community college campus. Read more...
By Brandon G. Withrow. For an Evangelical school, the statement of faith is the first job qualification. A search committee may have the perfect candidate, but ultimately, if the person cannot sign the faith statement, he or she is disqualified. This faith distinction is often what’s behind news reports of faculty at Evangelical schools losing their positions over views of LGBTQ rights and identity or creationism. Read more...
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