Inside Higher Ed Columnist Named a Finalist for ONA Award

Terry Caesar, columnist for Insider Higher Ed, is a finalist in ONA’s “Online Commentary” category. Caesar’s column, “Purely Academic,” covers topics all the way from student cheating to the importance of neckwear for male academics.

Washington, D.C., September 30, 2005 — The Online News Association has announced that Inside Higher Ed columnist Terry Caesar is a finalist for a 2005 Online Journalism Award. Caesar’s “Purely Academic” column covers a wide range of issues affecting professionals in higher education. This year he has written on student cheating, the importance of classroom design and the difficulties foreign students have getting visas to study in the US due to anti-terrorism measures. On a more humorous note, he has covered the importance of neckwear to the male academic and the competition professors face for the best parking spaces on campus. A piece he wrote in March on college students going to the bathroom to get out of class drew thousands of readers and a large number of responses from academics (which are posted alongside the story on www.insidehighered.com). His work is nominated in ONA’s “online commentary” category for small Web sites. An archive of Mr. Caesar’s columns can be found at views/purely academic

Terry Caesar has written or co-edited (with Eve Bueno) seven books including three volumes of essays on the politics of academic life, the most recent of which is Traveling Through the Boondocks (SUNY, 2000). He currently teaches as an adjunct Professor.

Inside Higher Ed editor Scott Jaschik says “Terry listens to what professors are talking about quietly, and he’s not afraid to turn those ideas into columns that broaden the conversation. Months after some of his columns run, people are still talking about them.”

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