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21 septembre 2014

He. She. Zhe.

HomeBy Nyasha Junior. As a seasoned faculty member, my initial class prep has dwindled from months to... well, let’s just say… much less time than I needed as a rookie. I have notes from the previous semester on what worked and didn’t work, and I keep track of ideas for new readings and assignments. Instead of starting from scratch in the fall, I have a good sense of what I want to change, add, or delete. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Beyond Research-Teaching Divide

HomeBy Christopher Leise. An informal review of recent commentary in higher-education-focused publications — particularly in recent articles focused on career failure — more or less reflects what I was taught in graduate school: placement advice typically divides positions into those focused on research and those focused on teaching. In point of fact, there are marked degrees between the research-first and teaching-first poles, gradations that many graduate students tend to assess poorly. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Good Intentions, Bad Legislation

HomeBy Terry W. Hartle and Jarret S. Cummings. Amid great anticipation, Apple last week rolled out its latest products. All the fanfare and breathless media coverage serves to underscore the excitement innovative technologies generate across our society. This is especially true for higher education. Few other industries integrate technology so thoroughly into their work. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

The History Manifesto

HomeBy Scott McLemee. When young sociologists would consult with C. Wright Mills, it’s said, he would end his recommendations with what was clearly a personal motto: “Take it big!” It was the concentrated expression of an ethos: Tackle major issues. Ask wide-ranging questions. Use the tools of your profession, but be careful not to let them dig a mental rut you can’t escape. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Merger Causes and Consequences

HomeBy Susan Resneck Pierce. The litany of problems is well-known to readers of Inside Higher Ed: declining enrollment; untenable tuition discounts; too much debt; the growing skepticism on the part of prospective students, their families and elected officials about whether the value of a college education is worth the cost; staggering amounts of deferred maintenance and decreased state support for public campuses. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Holding On to What We've Got

HomeBy David Galef. Student retention has been in the news a lot lately, but for a long time, no one at U of All People took it too seriously, since we’ve always had the same 20 percent rate of graduation within 20 years. To supplement our data, we also rely on anecdotal evidence, such as Professor Daissa Frogg’s looking around his biology lab in 2005 and exclaiming, “Where is everybody?” As it turned out, Professor Frogg had simply got the time wrong, and most of the students were at lunch. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Solid Employment Rates for Science Ph.D.s

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. The 2013 unemployment rate for those with research doctoral degrees in science, engineering and health fields was 2.1 percent, one-third of the rate for the general population aged 25 or older, according to an analysis released by the National Science Foundation on Friday. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Warnings About Tuition Discounting

HomeBy Andrew Trounson for The Australian. As Australia prepares to deregulate the setting of tuition prices, experts there are warning that universities will adopt a heretofore foreign practice that is common in the United States: discounting prices. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Tracking a Discipline's Evolution

HomeBy Kaitlin Mulhere. Two Kent State University professors frustrated by the lack of analytical data on the evolution of their discipline have compiled all of the field’s doctoral dissertations into a database to track growth and changes in the field. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Something Old, Something New

HomeBy Carl Straumsheim. The National Endowment for the Humanities has a new home and a new chairman, but the agency’s work to fund digital humanities projects continues unabated. The NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting was hosted for the eighth time in Washington on Monday, but for the first time in the agency’s new premises in the recently renovated Constitution Center. Read more...
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