Filter & Sort
Academic Integrity and Remote Testing
Reports on some complicated conversations.
Let’s Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’
Higher ed must stand against the real threats to free expression—the raft of legislation targeting the teaching of “divisive concepts,” Patricia McGuire writes.
Can We Talk?
In view of the “cancel culture” discourse, Jim Ryan and Ian Baucom of the University of Virginia write that universities should train students to be empathetic speakers and generous listeners.
Avoiding an All-or-Nothing Approach to Your Career
Derek Attig explains how to break down and mine your work experiences to obtain far better insights about your needs, values and possible futures.
3 Questions for Katherine Mercieca, Graduate Student at U-M
The complementary intersections of learning design and student affairs.
We Must Do Better for the Next Lia Thomas
Should there be more than two podiums, two gendered sets of record books? More could be done to recognize transgender athletes’ accomplishments, Ross Aikins writes.
Friday Fragments
The unpaid adjunct position at UCLA, a dog breaks loose (briefly) and the latest on TG’s admissions sweepstakes.
Teaching Outside the Box
Harvey J. Graff describes how, as a retired professor, he’s continued to teach and learn in a range of forums beyond the formal classroom and the university—and encourages others to consider it, too.