When I first heard of Alice Goffman’s On the Run a year or so ago, it didn’t pass my personal ‘smell test’ so I ignored it. After all, my early training was as a journalist and my idea of what constitutes publishable research and information is based in that professional ethos. I was a nightside…
Here is a small collection of recently published satiric items, largely from The Onion, on topics typically covered in other posts to this blog. Almost all of the items have been published just in this past year. “Sanders Shamelessly Pandering to Voters Who Want to Hear Truth” http://portside.org/2015-08-14/sanders-shamelessly-pandering-voters-who-want-hear-truth “Bernie Sanders Clearly in Pocket…
Here is a small collection of recently published satiric items, largely from The Onion, on topics typically covered in other posts to this blog. Almost all of the items have been published just in this past year. “College Board under Fire for SAT Printing Error” http://www.theonion.com/americanvoices/college-board-under-fire-sat-printing-error-50616 “Should Race Be Taken into Account in…
Here is a small collection of recently published satiric items, largely from The Onion, on topics typically covered in other posts to this blog. Almost all of the items have been published just in this past year. “Spring Break Safety Tips” http://www.theonion.com/graphic/spring-break-safety-tips-38177 “Pros and Cons of the Greek System” http://www.theonion.com/graphic/pros-and-cons-of-the-greek-system-38515 “College Rape…
The following map was created by Andy Kierz at the website Business Insider. Much of its content is not surprising: the most common jobs for immigrants on west coast are in agriculture, in the south housekeeping and construction. But note that in four states — Maine, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio — the most common job…
August 23, 2015 Dear President Killeen and Acting Chancellor Wilson, We the forty-one undersigned Executive Officers and campus leaders from departments and academic units across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign urge you to help end the crisis that has plagued our university for more than a year. It has increasingly become clear that the…
Another element of the broader issues addressed in Aaron’s post is the disparity in the nature of adjuncting–of teaching part-time–in different disciplines and in covering different levels of courses. The adjunct faculty in professional schools very likely have full-time employment outside of the university. The same is true for the great majority of adjunct faculty…
A bit more than a decade ago, I took on my first full-time higher-ed teaching job in the US. I had taught as an adjunct at a number of different schools over the years and I thought this would be a real step up. It was not. Though I liked my new colleagues quite a…
Earlier today, I did a post on very clever political messaging from the Kasich presidential campaign. I closed that post with this observation: “Whatever limitations he may have as a speaker or as a campaigner, he has managed to offset them with a great deal of political experience and political savvy.” In this post, I…
All learning at all levels starts within the student. It ends there, too, but the start is what concerns those of us who teach. When the learning doesn’t start with the student, the student never becomes fully engaged; what results is a smorgasbord of sampled bits without cohesion. The fundamentals aren’t mastered for that primary…