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‘Some People Are Just Born Good Writers’
Jill Parrott shatters the myth that you either have writing talent or you don’t.
Everyone Should Care About Graduate Student Tuition Waivers
Exempting tuition waivers from taxation is not only fair, but it is also a continuing commitment to the economic and societal benefits of accessible higher education, argues Mary Grace B. Hébert.
Hitting the Accelerator
Scott McLemee reviews The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms, in which social networks, big data, memes and the like are presented as extreme cases of the creative and disruptive potentials or our tool-oriented species.
Sex and the International Student
Students coming from outside the country have distinct needs that campus programs designed for their domestic peers don’t typically address, write Sharla Reid and Jill Dunlap.
The Pedagogy of Boredom
Christopher Haynes argues that instructors teaching online courses should embrace unanticipated and unconstrained time -- something he’s learned a lot about from his toddler.
Halting the Tragedies of Fraternity Hazing
Nick Altwies questions why, from the death of Scott Krueger to that of Timothy Piazza, we haven’t seemed to learn anything in the past 20 years.
A ’60s Radical Reflects
Richard Ohmann describes two scenarios of what happened in universities and society, then and afterward.
Ethical College Admissions: The Shape of the (Lazy) River
Jim Jump considers reports on steep cuts in tuition rates and big investments in amenities.