24 mars 2018
A Dry Story
Almost a century after Prohibition went into effect, we remember it as Puritanism run amok. Scott McLemee looks into a book taking a different view. More...
24 mars 2018
Against Conformity
My book Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters had recently been translated into Chinese, and I was on a speaking tour trying to persuade students and their families that in a society changing so rapidly it made the most sense to pursue a broad education in which you would learn how to take multiple perspectives on shifting, complex problems and opportunities -- to learn how to learn. More...
24 mars 2018
The Russians (and Other Online Outlaws) Are Coming
The idea of deliberately manipulating a crisis at a flagship U.S. university via social media once sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory, writes Ellen de Graffenreid, but we now realize the extent to which it can actually happen. More...
24 mars 2018
Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Excellence
Organizational culture is an often underappreciated force motivating behavior -- and thus individual and collective performance -- in an academic unit. In a previous essay, we described our AUDiT resource (snapshot here), which helps to identify and assess existing cultural elements in academic units by sorting them into green (vibrant), yellow (warning signs) and red (challenged) categories. More...
24 mars 2018
Mentoring for Different Paths
If we are to help develop the leaders we need for the future, advises Judith S. White, we must mentor them for jobs that are changing. More...
24 mars 2018
Turning Good Teaching on Its Head: Part II
What if we looked at not how much students learned from us, Paul F. Diehl asks, but how much we as instructors learned from students. More...
24 mars 2018
So You Want to Become a College President
Each year, hundreds of people, many of them readers of Inside Higher Ed, aspire to become a college or university president -- one of the most difficult but rewarding jobs in America. But many of them not only have a number of misconceptions about the search process but also make needless mistakes when they apply. More...
24 mars 2018
Frustrations of a Queer Academic Writer
Jamie J. Hagen ponders the costs that come with narrowing one's focus as an activist in order to build an academic résumé. More...
24 mars 2018
Why Critique Inequality in Our Disciplines?
I was asked to speak at the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting last month about inequality within the discipline of sociology. That invitation was spurred by a public debate about how institutional prestige, race and gender shape who speaks for the discipline. It is vitally important that a discipline with inequality and stratification as its central concern examines its own practices. More...
24 mars 2018
Turning Good Teaching on Its Head: Part I
Among the most heartwarming experiences of my academic career has been serving on university committees. You don’t often hear a faculty member say that, but in this instance, the committees involved awards for teaching at the college and university level. More...
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