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29 juin 2014

Why Starbucks Baristas Probably Won’t Be Sending Letters to Their Arizona State Professors

By Jonathan Rees - Chronicle Vitae. The last episode of Radiolab that I heard began with an argument between co-host Robert Krulwich and his wife, Tamar Lewin, who just happens to be the higher education reporter for The New York Times. Walking through The Explorers Club in New York City, Krulwich felt a little bit of historical energy every time he touched a physical manifestation of history—like an Explorer’s Club flag that had gone to the moon and back. Lewin was less impressed. The historic objects were very cool, she pronounced, but she didn’t feel the same magic. See more...

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29 juin 2014

A World Without Tenure? That’s a World Without Shared Governance, Too

By Rob Jenkins - Chronicle Vitae. Over the past few months, a few of my peers at Vitae have weighed in on the future of tenure, and understandably so: Increasingly, we’re being asked to contemplate a world without it. We’ve been reading arguments against tenure for a while, of course. But there’s a real corporatist edge to recent contributions to the genre. These broadsides envision an Orwellian campus where freedom is servitude—specifically, intellectual servitude to the whims of education technocrats holding up their forefingers to test the winds of supposed market forces. See more...

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29 juin 2014

Building a Better Nonacademic Career Panel

By Fatimah Williams Castro - Chronicle Vitae. Just last week, one of my graduate-school deans invited me to present on a nonacademic career panel with three other alumni. It was the fourth such invitation I’d received from my university since I graduated with a doctorate in cultural anthropology three years ago. I’m happy to act as a resource for my alma mater—and for graduate students struggling to navigate their career options. But sometimes I wonder if I’m doing much good by showing up. See more...

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29 juin 2014

Student loans should be for life, say universities

By Gemma Ware. Students should be given a lifetime loan allocation that they can use for different undergraduate and postgraduate courses, according to new proposals put forward by a group of universities. The University Alliance, a group of 22 British higher education institutions, has added its voice to the debate on how to adjust the current student loan system, with a new report putting forward proposals for a new Higher Education Loan Programme – or HELP – aimed at extending student loans to postgraduate study and part-time undergraduate learners. More...

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29 juin 2014

Grand challenges for mathematics education

By Robert Talbert. On Twitter this week, someone sent out a link to this survey from the NCTM asking users to submit their ideas for “grand challenges” for mathematics education in the coming years. I forget the precise definition and parameters for a “grand challenge” and I can’t go back to the beginning of the survey now that I’ve completed it, but the gist is that a grand challenge should be “extremely difficult but doable”, should make a positive impact on a large group of mathematics students, and should be grounded in sound pedagogical research. More...

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29 juin 2014

Guest post: Blending and flipping modern architecture

By Robert Talbert. How many of you reading this have a formal dining room in your home? A separate room, not just a dining area in a kitchen or great room. How often does this dining room get used for its intended purpose? Daily? Weekly? A couple times a year on major holidays? This is how I begin my Architecture, Technology and Society, 1750-present class. More...

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29 juin 2014

The Third Student-Loan Mess: Outrage and Crushing Debt

By Eric Best. We call crushing debt the third student-loan mess. Postgraduation debt levels are now such a constant part of public discussions about student loans that it is a little surprising to recognize that it really did not attract much attention until the mid-1990s. Suddenly, people began realizing that some borrowers owed five- and even six-figure student-loan debts. More...

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29 juin 2014

Reimagining the Undergraduate Experience: 4 Provocative Ideas

By Jeff Selingo. How can we reimagine the undergraduate college experience in the future? That was the question at the heart of my column last week on the overworked bachelor’s degree, which generated plenty of discussion, agreement, and pushback in the comments. It was also a question at the center of a yearlong exercise at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also known as the d.school. More...

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29 juin 2014

Cursive Is an Endangered Species

By Valerie Hotchkiss. Over the past decade or so, something big has been happening in public schools throughout the United States: Instruction in cursive writing has all but disappeared, cut from curricula as schools bring more technology (and keyboarding) into the classroom. The new Common Core Standards for education omit training in cursive handwriting altogether. More...

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29 juin 2014

Reflections From a Global Provost

By Guest Writer. The following is by Peter N. Stearns, provost of George Mason University. Mr. Stearns plans to retire this summer after more than 14 years in the role.
One of the reasons I wanted to become the provost of George Mason was the opportunity to help shape a more global university. Of course, given Mason’s Northern Virginia location near the nation’s capital and faculty talent, a good bit was going on already, but as an institution we had the chance to accelerate global education in a number of ways. That effort formed a key part of what proved to be an exhilarating job. More...

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