Filter & Sort
Virtual Community and Physical Space
Summer is the time when many faculty members vacate our shared campus space and retreat to home offices (or travel)...
The 'Faculty Lounge' Problem
Election years bring political attacks on academe, writes Martin Edwards. To defend higher education requires more than just public relations.
How It Sounds
In a conversation a few days ago, some thoughtful faculty noted in passing that the state’s constant drumbeat about job placement and STEM fields -- two different things, btw -- was becoming a factor in faculty morale in the humanities and social sciences. They heard every invocation of college-as-personnel-office as an attack on what they do, and as a harbinger of even-more-diminished resources to come.
Good Strategy . . . and Not-So-Good Strategy
These past few months have been a bit of a reading frenzy.
Celebrating 'The End of Money'
Currency is truly an anachronism. We continue to hold on to our paper money and our coins because - well because why?
Opening Up the Tenure Process
Bill Wolff explains why he put all of his documents online for all to see, and why other faculty members should too.
Exit Strategy
Should it be legal for a doctor to give that one final prescription for suffering? Scott McLemee considers a book on death with dignity.
Vision and Decentralization
CUNY’s New Community College, in New York City, is attracting plenty of attention in higher ed circles. It’s an attempt to apply a panoply of best practices in raising graduation rates to a population that desperately needs it. Whether it becomes an exemplar of a new model, or withers on the vine as an expensive boutique project, remains to be seen.