BY JONATHAN REES Last week, the learning management system (LMS) at the University of California – Davis went down right before finals week. It didn’t take too long for the vendor to restore it, but this kind of message from the administration there, quoted by Phil Hill at the blog e-Literate, probably didn’t inspire very…
I don’t wish to start any unfounded rumors or feed any of the conspiracy theories that have already been floated by those on the Far Right, but I found the following on a website listing “20 Things That Look like Donald Trump”:
This succinct item has been published today by the Dayton Daily News: Wright State Reserves Shrink from $162M to Estimated $40M by 2018 By Josh Sweigart Staff Writer “Wright State University trustees today approved a plan to raise tuition, cut expenses, reduce staff through attrition and dip into reserves to shore up a budget shortfall…
BY HANK REICHMAN Alice Dreger, the controversial author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice, an exciting and important defense of academic freedom in the sciences, who last year resigned a position at Northwestern University to protest the university’s censorship of sexual content in a faculty-sponsored publication, is once again…
BY AARON BARLOW In the 30+ years since I first looked into using digital technology in the classroom, my enthusiasm for it has waned. Today, I guess I have to classify myself as a Luddite. When I re-read Thomas Pynchon’s “Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?” my answer to his question is quite different from…
BY AARON BARLOW When George W. Bush’s disastrous Iraq war was beginning, I attended an antiwar march in New York City. It depressed me, thoroughly; I saw immediately that this crowd was never going to have an impact on American opinion or policy. Everyone (or so it seemed) had arrived to promote their own causes.…
BY AARON BARLOW At the end of The Big Show: My Six Months with the American Expeditionary Forces (1919), Elsie Janis wrote: Now I must call a halt. I love talking, and as I can’t talk to everyone, I like writing. Just a few words in parting to the women: You have been wonderful–and while I love…
BY RACHEL BUFF
BY AARON BARLOW New York City College of Technology, the City University of New York campus where I teach, has now spent more than a decade improving itself on the cheap. When I first taught here in 2001, it was a joke of a college, seen by many as undeserving of the name. Now, its…