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Of Pedagogy
There was a roundtable here last Friday on creative-writing pedagogy. I hadn’t RSVP’d for the event but agreed to go...
Death Valley
Although the very thought of it makes some academics blanch, I'm beginning to think that "evidence-based management" could be really...
Well, That Explains a Lot...
In the context of discussing ways to encourage her colleagues to try to reach students at different levels of demonstrated...
Talking to Himself
The oral historian Studs Terkel now tells his life's story. Scott McLemee listens to a puzzling silence in the tale.
The Future of the Contingent Faculty Movement
Keith Hoeller writes that a review of the history of the push for adjunct equity suggests that it's time for some strategy adjustments.
Outcomes Assessment: No Gain, All Pain
The push to measure student learning is portrayed as benefiting students, but it will hurt, not help, them, writes Bernard Fryshman.
Napster University?
According to IHE, the latest proposed extension of the Higher Education Act contains, among other things, a provision requiring that...
Bow Tie v. Hipster
Norman Mailer's death has brought out the bow ties, the tightly-wound and the closely-cropped, for whom the only noteworthy thing...