By Mason Stokes. Trigger warnings are in the news. College students—mostly young women—are requesting pre-emptive warnings about material that might upset them, that might, in some cases, cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s no surprise, then, that the backlash has begun. Writers and commenters—the majority appear to be male—are decrying this latest surrender to political correctness. More...
By Ryan Cordell. When I moved to the Boston area and began commuting two years ago, I asked ProfHacker readers to recommend a good backpack for commuting. So many recommended Tom Bihn backpacks that I got one, and I loved it. So when I was preparing for a series of work-related trips this spring, I wanted to test out Tom Bihn’s travel bags for these 2- or 3-night trips. The company provided me with an Aeronaut, a Tri-Star, and a Pilot bag so I could test them all, along with a set of packing cubes and pouches to keep them organized. More...
By Anastasia Salter. It’s no secret that many of us at ProfHacker are big fans of Twitter, using it for everything from conferences to classes to bot-making to, yes, posting pictures of our cats. Several ProfHackers have shared their favorite tools and hacks for working with Twitter: Natalie gathered several of them in her recent retrospective post. This last weekend served as another reminder that Twitter can be a powerful place to experience a simultaneous happening, as the fallout from Friday’s shooting at the University of California Santa Barbara spawned several vast online debates, including the confessional and confrontational #YesAllWomen hashtag. Coming in the wake of declarations that Twitter is “dead”, such moments provide further motivation to me for using Twitter. More...
By Anastasia Salter. Last week, our technology program brought in a trainer on Agile development methods, which is really an alternative approach to project management that’s particularly brought to bear on large software productions. One compelling aspect of the agile approach is the attempt to reconcile what every member of a team brings to a vision–including the difference between what a customer says and thinks they want, and what they really want. More...
By Ilan Stavans. Books are no longer books, at least not what was meant by book a generation ago: an extensive work made of letters that build sentences shaped into paragraphs, written on pages glued together and bound in covers. That, at least, still describes the yellowish copy I bought in 1985, on the New York City streets, of Fahrenheit 451, which sits tightly in my personal library. More...
By Anne Curzan. An article about the benefits of standing desks in last week’s Washington Post highlighted a problem, and I’m not talking about the problem of sitting too long in a chair at the office (although this is a real problem). I’m talking about a different kind of chair. More...
By Allan Metcalf. So you’re ready to learn a new language. How about Wampanoag?
You’ll find it useful if you plan to visit Massachusetts. That is, if you’re traveling by time machine to visit the Massachusetts of about 350 years ago. That was when Wampanoag (aka Massachusett) was the principal language spoken by long-time inhabitants of the region, though it (and they) were being displaced by English invaders. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Harnessing the Tax Code to Promote College Affordability: Options for Reform”|
Author: Joe Valenti, director of asset building; David A. Bergeron, vice president for postsecondary education; and Elizabeth Baylor, associate director of postsecondary education, all at the Center for American Progress.More...
By Ian Wilhelm. Does the head of a country’s higher-education system need a college degree?
That question is dogging the government of Narendra Modi, India’s newly elected prime minister. On Monday, Mr. Modi chose Smriti Irani to lead India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development, which oversees the country’s colleges and universities. More...
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