POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The Department of Education just distributed this press release. It appears to be a formal announcement of the monies that we have all been discussing for several weeks. It seems to suggest that those monies are just now being released–now that the initial $6.2 billion in direct aid to students has…
BY TAMMIE CUMMING, M. DAVID MILLER, FREDRIK DEBOER, AND JENNIFER BERGERON It seems that almost no aspect of academic life has been untouched by the coronavirus pandemic and the drastic measures governments and institutions have taken to respond to it. Nearly every postsecondary institution has adopted distance learning, forcing many faculty and students to adapt…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The CARES Act, or the third federal stimulus bill in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, includes funding for post-secondary educational institutions (vocational schools, community and technical colleges, and other colleges and universities. Click here for the preliminary estimates of those allocations. The document is 165 pages long, and it is organized…
BY DAVID KOCIEMBA AAUP clinical faculty are on the front lines of caring for COVID-19 patients. You can help them stay safe while doing so. Members at the AAUP chapters at the University of Connecticut Health Center and at the Storrs campus of the University of Connecticut (UConn) have formed a joint group of doctors,…
BY JUAN COLE Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and editor-in-chief of the Informed Comment blog, from which this is reposted with permission. The surgeon general, Jerome Adams, has announced that the coming week will see enormous numbers of coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations, calling it this…
BY DEE ANDREWS In History, we often talk about the 5 “C’s” of historical thinking: context, complexity, change, causality, and contingency. That last — the BIG unexpected event – you may have noticed is what we’re going through right now. So that led me to think of a similar scheme for what we’re facing in…
BY AARON BARLOW We have been using digital technologies as tools in our pedagogical kits, generally speaking, for a couple of decades. The battle for “smart” classrooms is over; we can’t imagine teaching in an environment where we do not have internet access and immediate projection. We use music and video in the classroom as…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH If one showed most Americans this photo, they would have no idea who the woman was: If one added this next photo, a few might guess that she was Eleanor Roosevelt, standing in the background as her husband signed another piece of landmark New Deal legislation: But, much like Eleanor Roosevelt,…