By Andy Thomason. A North Carolina congressman has introduced a bill that would exempt student employees from part of the Affordable Care Act, the health-care overhaul often called Obamacare. More...
10 août 2014
10 août 2014
Why the NCAA Lost Round 1 of the Amateurism Fight, and What It Means
By Andy Thomason. A federal judge handed down a landmark legal victory for student athletes on Friday, ruling that the NCAA’s amateur model constitutes an antitrust violation by limiting the amount of revenue athletes can make off their names and likenesses. More...
10 août 2014
Are Courses Outdated? MIT Considers Offering ‘Modules’ Instead
By Jeffrey R. Young. People now buy songs, not albums. They read articles, not newspapers. So why not mix and match learning “modules” rather than lock into 12-week university courses?
That question is a major theme of a 213-page report released on Monday by a committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exploring how the 153-year-old engineering powerhouse should innovate to adapt to new technologies and new student expectations. More...
10 août 2014
Why This Professor Is Encouraging Facebook Use in His Classroom
By Avi Wolfman-Arent. Facebook and academe aren’t exactly friends. Over the years, the social-media company has been the source of ethically questionable research, the purveyor of uncomfortable teacher-student interactions, and, of course, the consummate classroom distraction, scourge of lecture halls the world over. More...
10 août 2014
The Value of Admitting What We Don't Know
By Susan J. Behrens. Applying for a fellowship recently, I was asked to respond to one of the following two prompts:
A. Describe the most significant thing about teaching that you have learned.
B. Describe your most memorable teaching moment.
I chose A, but quickly realized that the two are difficult to separate. For me they both involve a student named Carla.
Carla was an English major taking a senior-level sociolinguistics course with me to fulfill a general-education requirement. I was covering the linguistic argument that nonstandard language forms are not substandard. I’d felt resistance from her all term, yet she was doing well on exams and papers. More...
10 août 2014
When Pornography Pays for College
By Rachel Shteir. My first response to Belle Knox was to be thrown into my past. Knox is "the Duke University porn star," a rising sophomore infamous for entering the sex industry to pay her tuition and then turning into a meme. More than two decades ago, a friend of mine chose to leave graduate school at Yale to become a dominatrix. To me, she represented third-wave feminists’ desire to enjoy sex—even to work in the sex industry—and still be political radicals. She never spoke about her decision publicly and long ago moved on without a trace. More...
10 août 2014
Intellectual Property: Valuable to Every Discipline
By John Villasenor. Intellectual property—patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets—plays a vital role in economic growth and prosperity. Yet outside of law schools, most American colleges provide little or no opportunity for students to receive any substantive instruction in it. As a result, students often graduate under the misimpression, no doubt shared by many of their professors, that IP is a topic of interest and relevance only to lawyers, with little connection to their own careers. More...
10 août 2014
University admissions 'to top 500,000 for the first time'
By Graeme Paton. More than half a million students are set to be admitted to British universities this summer – a record high – despite a predicted drop in the number of top A-level grades. Read more...
10 août 2014
Gap years by subject: give a boost to your CV
By Emily Chan. If you're taking a year out, you might want to tailor your gap year towards a potential university degree subject or future career goal - here are some ideas of what you can do. Read more...
10 août 2014
Do combined degrees attract extra kudos?
By Graeme Paton. Combined-degree courses have long been a draw for students. But are they twice as good as conventional university degrees or merely double the trouble?
Preparing to apply to university? Joint degrees are taken every year by almost one in five undergraduates (100,000), allowing them to study two or more courses in the same time frame as a single subject. More...
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