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27 avril 2014

A Conversation With the Head of the Higher Arab Institute of Translation

By Rasha Faek. Over the decades, the Arabic language has been considered sacred because it is the language of the Koran. Many Arab linguists consider it the expression of perfection, never to be touched. Arabic was also associated with the idea of Arabism and Arab identity in a way that any attempt to modernize it has been risky. At the same time, many universities in the Arab region either already teach in foreign languages, particularly English or French, or are considering dong so, potentially diminishing Arabic as a language of education. More...

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27 avril 2014

Signposts of the New Gilded Age, No. 309

By David Silbey. The Department of the Navy is advertising a summer internship as a “Student Trainee Laborer.” It is paid, admittedly, but doesn’t strike me as a particularly educational experience:
This position is that of a Student Trainee (Laborer) assigned to perform a combination of tasks requiring little or no special skill, experience or training. The work requires primarily physical effort and involves use of common hand tools and power equipment. More...

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27 avril 2014

In A Continuing Series On Things That Might Still Go Boom

By David Silbey. World War II will not be entirely over for a long while:
Tens of thousands of city residents and U.S. Army soldiers here will evacuate their homes, offices and barracks Thursday as military explosives experts, seasoned by duty in Afghanistan, attempt to disarm a gargantuan bomb that was among thousands dropped during a single Allied mission 70 years ago. More...

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27 avril 2014

A Live Chat With the Editors of ‘What Is College For?’

By Vincent DeFrancesco. The Chronicle Book Club this month discussed What Is College For? The Public Purpose of Higher Education. Chronicle web producer Vincent DeFrancesco discussed issues raised by the book with the book’s editors, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and Harry Lewis. The chat took place on Thursday, April 24, at 10:20 a.m., U.S. Eastern time. More...

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27 avril 2014

‘What Is College For?,’ Chapter 6: Graduate School as Higher Education’s Nerve Center

By Vincent DeFrancesco. Chapter 6 of What Is College For? was a bit of a departure from the book’s central theme. The previous chapters focused on the lost public purposes of higher education and ways to revive the teaching of those purposes. This chapter’s author, Catharine Stimpson, dean emerita of New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Science, touches on the book’s theme very briefly. More...

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27 avril 2014

The ‘Relatable’ Fallacy

By Kit Nicholls. I think I first heard a student declare a book “not relatable” about five years ago. I got the gist, but the word struck me as strange, clumsy. Before long, though, it had become a regular part of student vernacular, and I started to see it even in the The New York Times. Students use this word to express their sense that a text can be related to, that it is accessible to them. Unsurprisingly, contemporary pop culture is by and large relatable. Daniel Defoe? Not relatable. More...

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27 avril 2014

In Defense of ‘Expressionist Crap’

By Jennifer McGaha. Personal writing is frivolous, something best left to those students with the poor judgment to actually major in creative writing. This was essentially the opinion I heard expressed in an English-faculty meeting last fall. We should be teaching our first-year, general-education students to write for their intended professions, my colleague said; teaching “expressionist crap” is a pointless diversion, a waste of our students’ time and ours. More...

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27 avril 2014

A Quick Recap of Day of DH 2014

By Amy Cavender. This post was originally scheduled to run last week, but then there was Heartbleed. So it’s only now that we get to look back to this year’s Day of Digital Humanities event, held on April 8 and hosted for the second year in a row by the wonderful team at Matrix, including Ethan Wattrall. For those who may be unfamiliar with the event, it’s a day in which those working in digital humanities publicly document some of their work day and discuss their work. More...

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27 avril 2014

How to Easily Schedule a Meeting Across Time Zones

By Natalie Houston. Online communications tools such as Skype and Google Hangouts can make scholarly collegiality and collaboration more personal than email-only relationships. But what isn’t always easy is scheduling the time for phone calls or online meetings, especially when you’re collaborating across several time zones. More...

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27 avril 2014

From the Archives: On Grading (II)

By Natalie Houston. Grading student assignments is a significant feature of many academics’ workload, especially as the end of semester nears. In the years since our first round up post, From the Archives: On Grading we’ve written quite a few useful posts about grading philosopies, tools, and approaches:
Philosophies and Methods
In Cross-Disciplinary Grading Techniques, Heather wrote about adopting humanities methods for grading open-ended assignments to her physics courses. More...

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