Everything I know about teaching I learned selling sex toys.
Like many undergraduates looking to pay rent with self-directed hours and seemingly easy money, I joined a pyramid scheme in my sophomore year of college. However, while other students hocked energy drinks and Mary Kay products, I hosted Passion Parties in women’s homes selling adult toys. More...
University Incumbents, Learning Innovation, and 'Goliath's Revenge’
By Joshua Kim. Might traditional universities have more advantages in creating whatever comes next in higher ed than we realize. More...Turning Off My Phone, Email, Browser, Slack, and Notifications at Work
By Joshua Kim. When are you unreachable?I just did five things that I never do at work:
1. Closed Outlook
2. Turned off my iPhone
3. Closed Chrome
4. Turned off Slack
5. Set my computer notifications to do not disturb
My trigger for turning off all digital communications channels is a free hour. More...
'Zoo Nebraska' and Small Colleges in Rural Areas
By Joshua Kim. How are zoos like colleges?
This is the question that I found myself asking while reading Carson Vaughn’s engaging, in-depth account of a failed small-town zoo. More...
The Annual Extra-Credit Warning
A Plea to My Colleagues
Against Application Fees
By Matt Reed. A fee that doesn't make sense at community colleges.
Why do most colleges charge application fees?
I’m not referring here to the selective places that operate in a different world. Presumably, they have to pay people to comb through applications and try to sort out the actual coxswains from the ersatz ones. More...
The Continuing Adventures of Free College
Judge Blocks ‘Unlawful Presence’ Policy
By Elizabeth Redden. A federal judge on Friday issued a nationwide order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a 2018 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy memo that makes it easier for international students to accrue “unlawful presence” in the U.S., a determination that can subject them to future three- or 10-year bars on re-entering the country. More...
In Brazil, a Hostility to Academe
By Elizabeth Redden. In the past 10 days, new president has proposed defunding philosophy and sociology departments and announced ideologically motivated cuts to federal university budgets. More...