By Allan Metcalf. When I assign my freshmen to write about both sides of an issue, I tell them to pay special attention to the connective words they use. If you’re presenting the other side, you have to make clear that you aren’t suddenly changing your mind and going back on your own position. So you need to introduce the other side with words like “True,” “Admittedly,” “It could be argued that,” to signal clearly that this is somebody else’s position, not yours. More...
By Ben Yagoda. I was gobsmacked the other day while watching an episode of the NBC series Crisis, which I would describe as my guilty pleasure except that I don’t feel especially guilty about it, and it’s not that pleasurable. Anyhow, the show is about bad guys who kidnap a school bus full of children of the rich and powerful, including the U.S. president’s son. A Secret Service agent and one kid, who you can tell is a genius because he’s a little chubby and has curly hair. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “The Online College Labor Market”
Authors: Anthony P. Carnevale, Tamara Jayasundera, Dmitri Repnikov
Organization: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “America’s Public HBCUs: A Four-State Comparison of Institutional Capacity and State Funding Priorities”
Authors: William Casey Boland and Marybeth Gasman
Organization: University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Minority-Serving Institutions. More...
By Karin Fischer. Rhetoric from policy makers may focus on the need to ensure that college graduates are competitive in the workplace, but students, faculty members, and others engaged in higher education take a more expansive view of the value of a degree, a new report from the Kettering Foundation and the National Issues Forums Institute suggests. College, they said, shouldn’t be just about picking up job skills but should expose students to new ideas and diverse fields and should encourage critical thinking. More...
By . Princeton University said on Thursday that it had agreed to pay the town of Princeton, N.J., more than $24-million over the next seven years. The university, which as a nonprofit organization is tax-exempt, said in a news release that it would make voluntary payments of $21.7-million over the course of the agreement as well as one-time contributions valued at $2.6-million toward several town projects. More...
By Tom Bartlett. In 1938 a chemical engineer and amateur linguist named Benjamin Whorf visited a Hopi reservation in Arizona and concluded that the residents there had no words for time. No “was” or “will”; only “is.” For Whorf, and for many descriptive linguists who followed him, the supposed lack of past and future tenses in the Hopi language was more than just a grammatical curiosity. It revealed something deep and meaningful about the speakers themselves. The Hopi were a people permanently in the present. Read more...
By Eric Hoover. Eligibility for automatic admission under Texas’ “top 10 percent” plan increases the likelihood that a student will enroll at one of the state’s flagship universities by about 60 percent, shifting eligible students away from selective private colleges, according to new research findings published in Education Next. Yet the effects of the “race-neutral” admissions program are most visible in high schools that already send many graduates to college. Under the plan, which lies at the heart of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the major affirmative-action ruling the Supreme Court issued last year, students in the top 10 percent of their high-school class are automatically admitted to any of the state’s public universities. More...
By Danya Perez-Hernandez. In February, Twitter announced a new program offering researchers the chance to get free data for their studies. Apparently the idea has broad appeal: The company received 1,300 proposals from more than 60 countries, according to a blog post revealing the six institutions that have won the first round of grants. More...
By Danya Perez-Hernandez. The University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education is expanding its partnership with the online course provider 2U to offer the education school’s first online doctoral degree. Online classes for the new doctor of education in organizational change and leadership will begin in January 2015. Officials say the three-year program will offer “live weekly classes with a low student-to-faculty ratio,” and the course content will be available online 24/7. More...
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