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19 octobre 2014

Reclaiming History for the Future

By David Armitage and Jo Guldi. If you’re consistently in bad meetings, it’s time to look in the mirror.No one would accept consistently terrible classes. No one would continually repeat research procedures that didn’t yield interesting data. But there’s this weird assumption that meetings are just inherently bad and unimprovable. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Seeding Social Media

By Jason B. Jones. This week, Rice has hosted a fascinating conference on “Teaching in the University of Tomorrow,” which is trying to think about teaching, technology, and the changing higher ed landscape. You can find out more about the conference here or by viewing the conference’s active, boisterous hashtag, #delange9. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Reforming Shared Governance?

By Jason B. Jones. I won’t spend the whole week recapitulating Rice’s De Lange conference on “Teaching in the University of Tomorrow” (see yesterday’s post on “Seeding Social Media”) but I did want to draw folks’ attention to one more thing: William Bowen’s talk on technology and changing American priorities related to higher education. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

How Do You Work with Your Tablet?

By Jason B. Jones. This afternoon brings yet another set of Apple announcements–definitely new iPads, a specific release date for the new Mac operating system, and apparently retina displays for the iMac. And whenever Apple releases a product, other folks do also, with Google announcing the Nexus 9 that runs the new Android Lollipop OS. Read more...

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19 octobre 2014

Truly, Madly, Deeply Avoiding Adverbs

By Lucy Ferriss. Pity the lowly adverb. Like the adenoids (I had mine removed, at age 4) or the appendix, it is regarded by rule-mongers as unnecessary, left over from a time when the body of language needed this now-useless organ to process niceties of language that we now handle by way of verbs. Or nouns. Or the effectively placed period. More...

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19 octobre 2014

If Not Me Then Who?

By Geoffrey Pullum. “The anti-pedant zealots,” said a recent Lingua Franca commenter, “have become tedious and repetitive, and one can’t help but feel that all the strawmen getting the stuffing beat out of them is an exercise akin to watching a terrier worry a squeaky toy.”
I’m the main anti-pedant zealot the commenter had in mind. More...

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19 octobre 2014

Looking at American Speech

By Allan Metcalf. If you read Lingua Franca, you might be among the select few who want to know what is really going on with our language, as opposed to the many who mainly want to change it to their liking. Nothing wrong with the latter, except that it’s like wishing for the good old days when chemistry involved just four easy-to-remember elements—earth, air, fire, water—as opposed to the notion promulgated nowadays by professional chemists that there are more than a hundred elements, while the original four have been plutoed. More...

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19 octobre 2014

High Schools’ Average Incomes Predict College Enrollment, Study Finds

By Chronicle Staff. Report: “High School Benchmarks Report: National College Progression Rates”
Organization: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
Summary: Students who graduate from high schools with low average income levels remain less likely to enroll in college than do their counterparts from schools with higher average incomes. More...

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19 octobre 2014

College Brings Opportunity, but Paying for It Offers Challenges, Fed Chair Says

By Beckie Supiano. Higher education is one of the “cornerstones” of economic opportunity, Janet L. Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve Board, said on Friday in an unusual and closely watched speech about growing inequality. But her remarks, given at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, did not cast higher education’s role in an entirely favorable light. More...

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19 octobre 2014

University Paid $4.5-Million in Legal Fees for Fatal Lab Fire at UCLA

By Andy Thomason. The University of California paid nearly $4.5-million in legal fees to defend itself and a UCLA professor in the case of a 2008 lab fire that left one dead, the Los Angeles Times reports. Records obtained by the Times show that nearly five dozen lawyers and other staff members billed the university for upwards of 7,700 hours of work on the case. More...

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