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Laptops and knitting in class
Twitter is burning up with discussion of Sue Dynarski’s November 22 NYT column on laptop use in class. Dynarski summarizes some of the research on how laptops affect students in classes heavy in formal presentations (such as many economics classes) and explains why she generally bans electronic device use in her classes as a result. Loads […]
Boundaries and presence
This morning, Inside Higher Ed reported on the resignation of Terrell Strayhorn from his faculty position at Ohio State University, after he was dismissed from a center director position. Strayhorn is well-known in higher-ed research, ((i.e., the research community that focuses on higher education)) and his administrative dismissal and then faculty resignation is a startling end […]
Erwin V. Johanningmeier
I was sorry to hear earlier this spring that my former colleague Erv Johanningmeier had died. As the chair of a search committee in 1996, he was responsible for Barbara Shircliffe, Chris Ogren, and my coming to the University of South Florida. ((In a span of about five years, he directly or indirectly was responsible […]
Interview season notes
We had dozens of candidates on campus last year for positions at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, by far the most busy search season I have experienced in my career at any place. Since our college is searching for a new dean, I thought I would make any comments about on-campus interviews for faculty and administrative positions […]
Gnostic utterings for academics
For a period of years, my friend Gwen Knighton had entries in her blog she called gnostic utterings, which were comments about the world prompted by some-distance-removed events, and to which she appended the warning, “If you think this is about you, you are probably wrong.” Each entry was a collection of statements she did not utter […]