Tweet Just a quick follow-up to last week’s post on changes in higher education. The New York Times published an article on Friday, highlighting two new books on the future of the American academy and picking up some of the points I discussed last time: The labor system, for one thing, is clearly unjust. Tenured [...]
Archive for the ‘Teaching’ Category
August 25, 2010
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Courting controversy
By james in Jobs, Opinion, TeachingTweet There’s nothing like an overtly contentious statement to bring in the traffic. And as they go, this is a pretty good one: “Why higher education is like a Ponzi scheme“. The linked post is actually for a radio program, the content of which was based on this original article by a professor of psychology [...]
May 28, 2009
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News: The Mystery of Faculty Priorities – Inside Higher Ed
By jose in e-Science, Teaching, Time managementTweet Do you wonder why people without funding do research? Naw, probably not, because you do it too . Getting grant money involves a huge effort and most people do not have grants. However, everyone tries their best to get time to do research. In fact, universities encourage their faculty to focus on research at [...]
April 18, 2009
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50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice – ChronicleReview.com
By jose in Reading, Teaching, WritingTweet How much of the advice we take is based on solid empirical evidence? Surprisingly worrying little! I’d love it if someone actually tries to put together an estimation (let me know if you know one!). The Chronicle, in a surprising streak of opinion articles, finds that Strunk and White’s claims are mostly baseless: Simple [...]
September 22, 2008
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Improving productivity with intended learning outcomes
By james in Evaluation, Teaching, Time managementTweet It’s now September and with the turning of the leaves comes the start of another academic year. After more than 20 years of conditioning, I still see this as the true start of the new year so rather than wait until January, I tend to make my productivity resolutions now. But even if you [...]