Opinion

It's not a debate within DH, but a debate between DH and the rest of the academic establishment: openness and trust.

By Lee Bessette

Yesterday, Stanford University professor Sebastian Thrun announced his resignation and plans instead to focus on his online learning startup Udacity. Thrun taught the wildly popular Artificial Intelligence class last fall, and he now says "I can’t teach at Stanford again." What are the implications on the ongoing disruptions to the universities' (near) monopoly over credentialing? What does it mean when a professor sees his brand as stronger than a university's?

By Audrey Watters

Arthur Hauptman proposes a reset for the U.S. government's main financial aid program, to restore it to its initial purpose of assuring the neediest students that they will have funds for college.

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With Pell Grants no longer keeping up with students' need, the federal government should end its tuition tax credit and use the savings to increase Pell awards, Hamid Shirvani writes.

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Jobs will be large part of the education and election conversation over the next 12 months.

By Kenneth C. Green

Non-superstar academics under the age of about 60 typically have plenty of good (and bad) rejection stories. This post is an attempt to look at rejection from the other side.

By Dean Dad

UF architecture prof Charlie Hailey on the square in Skopje, Macedonia.

By Oronte

When my husband was a child, he was so traumatized by the Disney movie “Snow White” that, as an adult, he informed me that no child of ours would ever be allowed to see it. Since my husband’s usually a pretty anti-censorship, pro-Freedom of Information type, this struck me as odd.

By Libby Gruner