The World from Inside the Far-Right Bubble: What Happened at an Anti-Abortion Demonstration at UC-Santa Barbara
Bill Maher often describes the Far-Right’s distorted perspective on the world as being inside the “bubble.” Here is an illustration from a university campus of how an event can be treated as a significant story inside that “bubble” and not receive any notice elsewhere. The Far Right media would argue that this dichotomy is just…
The Largest University in Each State
We Are Just Not Working Hard Enough
Earlier this month, the Ohio Conference Communication Committee (although I formally chair the committee, our Executive Director, Sara Kilpatrick, now drafts most of the regular communications with our members) distributed the following item. Rosenberger Releases Report from Higher Education Study Committee As we reported to you in September, the Ohio House of Representatives had formed a “Higher Education…
College Students and Entrepreneurship, or the New Myth of the Self-Made College Graduate
The Pathway From a Liberal Arts Education to a Job at Google
Quite appropriately, prospective college students and their families are looking for colleges and universities, and specific majors, that will help the student prepare for a successful future career. It is easy to see the path from accounting or nursing major to C.P.A. or R.N., but less so the path for English or Sociology majors leading…
Rethinking the Role of College Career Centers for Humanities Graduates
Numerous studies indicate that the skills produced by a quality liberal arts education correspond precisely to what employers seek beyond technical training. The ability to articulate, write, apply quantitative methods, use technology, and work in a collaborative setting will continue to shape the parameters of the skill set needed in the 21st century. So, why…
Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promise and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses
About a year ago, Steven Krause (of Eastern Michigan University) and Charles Lowe (of Grand Valley State University) came up with the idea of a collaborative anthology of essays on MOOCs, twinning an experiment in scholarship with exploration of an experiment in education. The anthology appeared last week, showing the success of the approach to…
True Detective: The Much-Anticipated Finale and the Novel That Preceded the Series
If you have been watching the new HBO anthology series, True Detective, you may be very ambivalent about watching tomorrow night’s final episode in the initial story. If you haven’t been watching, it features Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as detectives investigating a series of bizarre, ritualistically sadistic killings that have stretched over two decades.…
Interview with Rev. Joseph Lowery, 50 Years after New York Times v. Sullivan
On March 9, 1964, the unanimous US Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of New York Times v. Sullivan, revolutionizing freedom of the press by requiring “actual malice” in defamation suits involving public figures. The case began when a fundraising ad for the civil rights movement appeared in the New York Times, criticizing…