By Mike Reeser - EvoLLLution. 1. How does the mission of Texas’ technical colleges differ from that of two-year community colleges?
What makes our system unique is the fact that we have a statewide mission and that the programs we teach are restricted to technical programs. Typically we don’t do programs designed to transfer to university, but instead result in a great technical or applied science job in the Texas economy. More...
By Tina Grant - EvoLLLution. Speed in adopting innovative approaches has not been a hallmark of higher education. Yet, there may be a convergence of factors that could change this, and dramatically so. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, the industries likely to report an increased need for higher education and skills levels over the next few years are high-tech, manufacturing and local, state and federal governments. More...
By - Al-Fanar. As higher education globalizes, there will be winners and losers. That idea was a strong undercurrent during many discussions here at the British Council’s annual Going Global meeting, which attracted more than 1,000 college leaders and international educators from 70 countries. More...
By Rob Jenkins - Chronicle Vitae. The word “professional” can refer to someone who engages in a particular activity for money, as in a professional athlete or writer, or to someone who is employed in one of the “professions”: law, medicine, education, financial services. But these days the word seems to be used most often as an adjective, to describe the behavior expected of people in their professional lives.
“Professional” behavior, in a work setting, means speaking, dressing, and acting appropriately; following through on commitments and assignments; and generally treating others with respect and courtesy. When people fail to display that behavior, we levy the big insult. "They're unprofessional,” we grumble. More...
By Stacey Patton - Chronicle Vitae. When we think of academe as “the life of the mind,” we’re obscuring one basic fact: Conducting research can take a real physical toll on a scholar’s body.
No, scholarship isn’t a dangerous factory job. But hours spent hunched over in library carrels, staring at computer screens, and pecking away at keyboards can cause any number of problems—eye strain, headaches, back and neck pain, repetitive strain injuries, and the like. More...
By Chronicle Vitae. Questions …
I’m First Author, But I Always Get Last Billing. Q (from zmartine): More than a third of my first-author papers are co-authored, either with one or two other people. Unfortunately, my last name begins with a Z, and the convention is to list co-first authors alphabetically, so I am always listed last among the first authors. My solution thus far has been to list authors on my CV in the order in which they are listed on the paper and include an asterisk by each listing leading to an italicized comment that says "Authors contributed equally." More...
By Jennifer Polk - Chronicle Vitae. I value the independence I have as a self-employed person. It was one of my favorite things about being a Ph.D. student, and later about being a freelancer. Although I considered working full-time for an employer, the closest I ever came to that was when I took on as many shifts as I could at the bookstore during my summers as an undergrad.
I love having the freedom to arrange my own life and labor. As long as the work gets done, the details are largely left up to me, always. When I work, where I work, how I structure my workday are all things I can control, and this has been true for me for many years. More...
By Robert Talbert. This article continues a look at some of the skepticisms I’ve seen about flipped learning and the flipped classroom. Previously, we discussed whether flipped learning means having students learn everything on their own and whether students can even learn on their own in the first place. This time I want to focus on an issue that was the third point in a good comment from a previous post about flipped learning. In that post, I was reporting about a framework for defining what flipped learning is. More...
By Brian Mathews. Finals kicked off today at Virginia Tech. I have to admit that I actually like this time of the semester because of the intensity that students bring. I love being surrounded by mass-productivity!
I was looking through our school newspaper this morning and found a library-themed bingo card. More...
By G. David Gearhart. The greatest international-exchange program for students and scholars in the world, the Fulbright Program, is in danger. President Obama’s proposed budget calls for cuts of more than $30-million in the program, seriously harming its ability to fulfill its critical international mission of peace through education. I believe everyone in higher education has a duty to oppose any decrease in resources for this cost-effective and highly valuable program. More...
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