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14 octobre 2014

Silicon Valley’s Empathy Problem

By . Facebook is no stranger to controversy, but last month the company found itself in a public scrap with its fiercest opponents yet. The cause? Facebook’s decision to delete the accounts of several San Francisco drag queens, enforcing a longstanding policy that users go by their real names on the site. More...

14 octobre 2014

Open Thread: Thoughts on Providing Documentation?

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . Many of us have had a lot of practice in planning courses and specific classes. We’re experienced at designing assignments, too. But as more of us experiment with blogging assignments and electronic portfolios, we often find ourselves asking students to do things with tools that they may not be familiar with. More...

14 octobre 2014

Dusting Off the Abacus

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . You can count on Comments on Etymology to dust off old arguments about word histories and offer a comprehensive and often compelling synthesis. That’s what you’ll find in the October 2014 issue of the monthly journal self-published by Gerald Cohen at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, Mo. Half of the issue goes to China for an investigation of the origins of pagoda. But the other half is Cohen’s history of abacus and its form, as well as its name, in the ancient world. More...

14 octobre 2014

Mentor, the Verb

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . Every year, as I fill out my institution’s Professional Activities Inventory, I’m vaguely aware that one of the categories soliciting a response—Mentoring of Colleagues—uses language far more ubiquitous now than when I first became anyone’s colleague. But it was not until I began a writing project this year that has brought me deep into the fields of business and finance that I started hearing mentor and mentee at every turn. More...

14 octobre 2014

How About That?

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . The New York Times made my day Monday with a great front-page story by Jonathan Mahler about how a “best-selling author and management guru” named Dov Seidman is suing the Chobani yogurt company for stealing his word. More...

14 octobre 2014

The Intentional Fallacy

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . A fellow educator has brought to my attention the rise of intentional as a signifying term in academic life. If you haven’t noticed it yet, you will.
Intentional is a word with at least two categories of meaning. More...

14 octobre 2014

‘U.S. News’ Says 2 Colleges Misreported Rankings Data

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . U.S. News & World Report said on Wednesday that two colleges had submitted inflated data that were used in the 2015 edition of the magazine’s “Best Colleges” rankings.
Robert J. Morse, U.S. News’s chief data strategist, and Diane Tolis, its director of data projects, wrote a blog post explaining the two cases, involving Lindenwood University, in St. Charles, Mo., and Rollins College, in Winter Park, Fla. Several other colleges have been involved in cases of misreported rankings data in recent years. More...

13 octobre 2014

Education Dept. Will Make Loan Data More Accessible to the Blind

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . The U.S. Department of Education has agreed to make student-loan information more accessible to blind people by offering documents in Braille and large print, and by making its web pages compatible with technology used by the blind. The National Federation of the Blind and three individuals advocated for the change, according to a news release from the federation. More...

13 octobre 2014

Controversial Philosopher Will Step Down as Editor of Influential Rankings

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . Brian Leiter, the philosopher who has come under intense criticism in recent weeks for his caustic rhetoric, will step down as editor of The Philosophical Gourmet Report, an influential ranking of philosophy departments. More...

13 octobre 2014

A New Department Marks the Rise of a Discipline: ‘Computational Media’

By . Pixar movies, interactive video games, smartphone applications—all are forms of computational media, the marriage of computer science to the arts and humanities. Signaling a deeper investment in that fast-growing if slippery field, the University of California at Santa Cruz announced the creation on Monday of what it called the first computational-media department ever. Read more...
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