18 mai 2019
18 mai 2019
Arkansas Steps Up
By Matt Reed. College affordability comes in different flavors. An alert reader just sent me a new one from Arkansas, and I have to tip my cap. More...
18 mai 2019
Parcoursup : point sur la phase d'admission
La phase d'admission de la procédure Parcoursup a commencé le 15 mai 2019 à 19h. Elle concerne cette année 898 054 candidats, dont 639 905 sont des lycéens, 133 057 des étudiants en réorientation et 125 092 des candidats non scolarisés, pour la plupart en reprise d'études. Au total, ces candidats ont formulé 6.9 millions de vœux sur Parcoursup dans plus de 14 500 formations. Plus...18 mai 2019
Scenes From Graduation Week
By Matt Reed. Graduation week is the most affirming, and most tiring, week of the year. A few scenes from this year’s version, all true:
At the morning ceremony, as one student crossed the stage to get her degree, a voice boomed from the stands: “That’s my Mom!” The whole place muttered “awww…” in unison. Moments like those get me every time. More...
18 mai 2019
When Inclusion Just Makes Life Easier
By Matt Reed. I have to hand it to Twitter; it has changed my mind on a few issues in the last month or so. And no, I’m not referring to politics, at least in the usual sense of the word. I’m referring to some ways in which making a conscious choice to be more inclusive benefits not only the newly-included, but even the ones doing the including. More...
18 mai 2019
Choosing Humanity Over Compliance
By John Warner. One semester, junior year of college, I had only three finals, all scheduled in the same day early cycle. If that was the case, we were allowed to reschedule one to a different date at the professor’s convenience. I approached all three professors, and each gave me a time on the last day of finals, a full four days after I would’ve been done otherwise. More...
18 mai 2019
What Is Most Valued on a College Campus? Look Around.
By John Warner. There is an exercise I used when teaching an advanced composition course during my time at Clemson University that was designed to get students thinking like ethnographers. More...
18 mai 2019
The Right Model(s) for Higher Ed
By Steven Mintz. Just six or seven years ago, many thought mistakenly that for-profit education or competency-based education or MOOCs or boot camps or personalized, adaptive software was the winning model. It isn’t. More...
18 mai 2019
Overextended and Overcommitted
By Steven Mintz. Anything but slackers, many of our students are overwhelmed by activities and responsibilities. More...
18 mai 2019
The Shape of Higher Ed to Come
By Steven Mintz. A video produced by Microsoft Office Labs in 2009 offered a vision of technology in 2019. It included simultaneous transitions between languages, touch screens, gesture controls, e-paper, wall-sized smart displays, voice activated digital assistants, and pocket projectors. More...
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