First, if you've ever wanted a sense of academic hiring, read Profgrrrrl's post. Now. Slowly.
It's all true.
Worse, it doesn't stop at the department level.
Let's say, for the sake of ...
In his previous post, Jamie Merisotis makes a compelling case for the importance of seeing American higher education in the context of higher education worldwide, and for treating our system of ...
Let me start by saying that I'm tremendously conflicted on this subject. Probably the first lessons I taught my children when they were old enough to watch TV were that (1) commercials lie, and (2) ...
The American Library Association is meeting, and tweeting, in Chicago. A report:
"The nearly week-long librarian meet-up, which began July 9, delivers 'over 300 educational programs' to ...
Today I have the urge to address a perennial, insidious, and unnecessary condition that afflicts higher education in this country. It results from the most Frequently UNasked Question (by students) ...
My first week of graduate school found me in a microeconomics class with a teacher reviewing the assumptions behind what is commonly called the “Adam Smith hypothesis”. Referring to the founder ...
I am having trouble signing on to the campaign to make our universities dependencies of the federal government. I want the money. I am confident that we could spend it a lot better than the bailed ...
How will academic libraries make sure that their content is available on a 3.5-inch mobile device? Should this even be a goal of the academic library?
This week the NYTimes wrote about the rapid ...
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. William Ferris. The University of North Carolina Press, November 2009. $35.00.
Review by Katya Cummins
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices ...
Two recent instances of professorial plagiarism - New Zealand novelist Witi Ihimaera and, allegedly, Ohio State University mathematician Azita Manouchehri - have UD thinking once more about this odd ...
