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Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude: On Crafting a Liberal-Arts Education
harvardmagazine.com | Original Article | by Nannerl O. Keohane Editor’s note: Each spring term since 2008, Hobbs professor of cognition and education Howard E. Gardner and Pforzheimer professor of...
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Masculine Open Online Courses
insidehighered.com | Original Article | by Carl Straumsheim Despite the talk about how massive open online courses, or MOOCs, will dramatically alter the landscape of higher education, the courses...
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How People Argue with Research They Don’t Like
Washington Post | Original Article | by Dylan Matthews We at Wonkblog watch (and participate) in a lot of debates about new research. And we'd like to say all those debates adhere to the highest...
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The Doctoral Journey: Perseverance
World Universities Forum | Original Article The World Universities Forum is happy to announce the release of The Doctoral Journey: Perseverance by Thomas Ryan. Herein we, like others, define doctoral...
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Flipping Med Ed
insidehighered.com | Original Article | by Carl Straumsheim To help medical students progress faster and find their calling in the field, two educators suggest moving content delivery out of the...
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Scholarship in Action: Communities, Leaders, and Citizens
World Universities Forum | Barbara Baker, Kathleen Hale and Giovanna Summerfield (eds) The World Universities Forum is happy to announce the publication of Scholarship in Action: Communities, Leaders,...
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Low-Cost B.A. Starting Slowly in Two States
NYTimes | Original Article | by Tamar Lewin Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — With tuition, student loan debt and default rates all spiraling higher, what’s not to love about a $10,000 bachelor’s degree? In the...
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Dirty Antebellum Secrets in Ivory Towers: ‘Ebony and Ivy’ About How Slavery...
NYTimes | Original Article | by Jennifer Schuessler When Craig Steven Wilder first began digging around in university archives in 2002 for material linking universities to slavery, he recalled...
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Unquiet Voices: Cultural Experiences Related to the Pursuit of Tenure and...
World Universities Forum | Amitra Wall and Myrtle Welch (eds) The World Universities Forum is happy to announce the publication of Unquiet Voices: Cultural Experiences Related to the Pursuit of Tenure...
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Academic Publishing: Science’s Sokal Moment
The Economist | Original Article | From the Print Edition: Science and Technology It seems dangerously easy to get scientific nonsense published. In 1996 Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York...
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Sold Out
lrb.co.uk | Original Article | by Stefan Collini Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education by Roger Brown, with Helen Carasso Routledge, 235 pp, £26.99, February, ISBN 978 0 415...
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Academic Publishing: Science’s Sokal Moment
The Economist | Original Article | From the Print Edition: Science and Technology It seems dangerously easy to get scientific nonsense published. In 1996 Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York...
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As More Attend College, Majors Become More Career-Focused
fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com | Original Article | by Nate Silver A popular article by Verlyn Klinkenborg last week in The New York Times Sunday Review lamented the decline of English majors at...
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An Adjunct’s Death Becomes a Rallying Cry for Many in Academe
chronicle.com | Original Article | by Lindsay Ellis An op-ed column about the death of a former longtime adjunct faculty member at Duquesne University has drawn new attention to the working conditions...
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Universities Can Segregate Men And Women For Debates, Says Universities UK
huffingtonpost.co.uk | Original Article | by Lucy Sherriff Universities can segregate by gender in talks from external speakers, as long as men and women are sat side by side and not one in front of...
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Udacity has Left the Building
higheredstrategy.com | Original Article | by Alex Usher There was a big story in MOOC-world last week, which the mainstream press has surprisingly yet to pick up on; namely, that Udacity, one of the...
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Universities Can Segregate Men And Women For Debates, Says Universities UK
huffingtonpost.co.uk | Original Article | by Lucy Sherriff Universities can segregate by gender in talks from external speakers, as long as men and women are sat side by side and not one in front of...
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For Profit and People: UniversityNow Rides a Low-Cost Wave
NYTimes | Original Article | by Anya Kamenetz Imagine we could actually build a system of schools that … set up every single student who enrolled in it for success, unlike the schools we have today in...
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After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought
NYTimes | Original Article | by Tamar Lewin Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 students from around the globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence, starting what was...
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In the Developing World, MOOCs Start to Get Real
technologyreview.com | Original Article | by Jessica Leber Putting free U.S. college courses online is only the first step to filling higher education needs around the world. As online education...
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