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16 août 2014

Read About How You Can Make College Better

By Vincent DeFrancesco. Most conversations about college reform feature broad ideas. But what can people and institutions do, realistically, to make college a better experience? How does college actually work?
Welcome to another edition of The Chronicle Book Club. This round, we’re reading How College Works, a book about small changes professors, administrators, and institutions can make to dramatically improve the student experience. The authors, Daniel Chambliss (@DanFChambliss) and Chris Takacs (@ChrisGTakacs), who followed a cohort of students for a decade, will be guiding our discussion on the blog and on Twitter. More...

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16 août 2014

Betray Our Students for Publisher’s Profit?

By Kathleen Anderson. I recently received an email from a “consultant” inviting me to help a publisher create an automatic essay-grading technology product for humanities professors to use in introductory-level courses. The consultant claimed that once completed, the program would “accurately auto-grade brief writing assignments – 500 to 900 words.” The program, the email said, “uses specific writing prompts and rubrics to achieve computer grading accuracy.” More...

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16 août 2014

Hard Facts

By William Germano. How long will the meeting last? I asked the caller. We had a visiting group coming to campus. They had a busy schedule. The meeting would end by noon, I was told, because the group had a hard out. More...

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16 août 2014

All Done Copyediting/Copy Editing/Copy-Editing

By Lucy Ferriss. Hallelujah. The copy edits have gone back. Hallelujah. I’m referring here to the 350-page manuscript for my new novel, A Sister to Honor, forthcoming in January 2015, which I received in copy-edited form 18 days before my wedding date, with a two-week deadline. More...

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16 août 2014

The Great Dog Robber

By Allan Metcalf. Among the celebrated actors who have died recently, James Garner deserves particular celebration for his charm, good humor, and versatility. If you’re nostalgic for what Southern California was really like in the 1970s, when real estate wasn’t yet sky high and there still were open spaces, look no further than the six seasons of The Rockford Files made back then. My excuse for celebrating him in Lingua Franca, however, is his use of an odd military term: dog robber. More...

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16 août 2014

College Fund-Raising Rises 5.2 Percent

By Don Troop. Fund-raising in higher education grew by an estimated 5.2 percent in the 2014 fiscal year, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education reported on Tuesday. That was a full percentage point below the 6.2-percent increase that was predicted in the same survey last year. More...

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16 août 2014

4 Receive the Fields Medal, Including the Prize’s First Female Medalist

By Charles Huckabee. Four scholars have received the Fields Medal for 2014, including the first female medalist in the 78-year history of the prestigious mathematics prize, the International Mathematical Union has announced. The union presents the medal every four years to up to four mathematicians age 40 or younger to recognize outstanding existing work and to foster “the promise of future achievement.”
The 2014 prizes were awarded on Wednesday during the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians, being held this year in Seoul, South Korea. More...

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16 août 2014

White House Announces Second Summit on College Access

By Andy Thomason. Seven months after the White House hosted a well-publicized summit on expanding college access, it announced on Wednesday plans for a second gathering, to be held December 4. According to a White House statement, the aim of the second summit will be to “build on the work” of the first one, “while launching initiatives in new areas.” More...

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16 août 2014

Digging Through Data for the Real Story on Student Loans

By Sandhya Kambhampati. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education released new data on student-loan repayment that included figures on loan delinquencies—potentially good news for those interested in how well students are faring when it comes to paying back their loans. The release precipitated an article the following Monday in The Huffington Post by Shahien Nasiripour titled, “Half Of Federal Student Loan Borrowers Not Paying On Time.” More...

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16 août 2014

Confuse Students to Help Them Learn

By Steve Kolowich. If you had to pick a single word to explain how Derek Muller ended up in a Perth hotel room arguing with an empty chair, it probably would be "confusion."
About a decade ago, Mr. Muller, then a doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney, wanted to figure how out to make science videos that students would learn from, not just watch. So he did some experiments. He got a handheld camera and rudimentary animation and editing software, and recorded some educational videos aimed at teaching basic physics concepts. More...

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