I have defended ABC College many times on this blog, despite the fact that many of my colleagues have been unhappy with them. I have never before felt micromanaged and I have never felt pressure to give good grades (common complaints that I have heard). I...
This is a longer blog, and I've decided to break it into two parts. I see them shuffle in every semester, this group referred to by the label-makers as Gen.
I've avoided opening the discussion about how adjuncts can earn tenure because opening the tenure discussion often seems like opening a wound that never heals. It is actually easier to.
Whew! Sorry about being out of breath. I'm rushing to get this done (and as my editor will testify, I'm already a few days late). You see, I was stuck wrestling with the bane of my existence, namely grading. Since grading papers has consumed all...
by Tyler Mahoney There is an old argument for avoiding higher education: "Bill Gates dropped out of college and he’s one of the richest men in the world." Isn’t that.
By Greg Beatty Sandra Barnes’ On the Market: Strategies for a Successful Academic Job Search is a useful, fascinating, and at times markedly depressing book. Let me address each of.
by Samuel Jacobs With the Obama family vacation just around the corner, we’d like to offer a refresher to anyone who is behind on their Barack Obama reading list. When the president landed in Oaks Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard last August, he loaded his bedside table...
by Mary Beth Marklein A government inquiry of 15 for-profit colleges found four cases in which campus officials encouraged applicants to commit fraud and examples at every school of officials.
by Tyler Mahoney There is an old argument for avoiding higher education: "Bill Gates dropped out of college and he’s one of the richest men in the world." Isn’t that.
A new Texas law going into effect this September will offer students unprecedented amounts of information about college classes, but professors across the state have labeled it an attack on their academic freedom. Passed unanimously in 2009, Texas Legislative House Bill 2504 is the first of...
