KC Johnson, law profs, and intellectual diversity
Two stories in the last few days have popped up about intellectual diversity in higher ed. One is KC Johnson’s story in Inside Higher Ed and the other is a story in the New York Times describing a study of law professors’ political contributions. It’s the first week of classes and I’m still far behind […]
Dropout statistics in political use
Diane Cardwell’s story this morning in the New York Times discusses the political uses of graduation and dropout statistics in the New York City mayoral race. As is common, the use of educational statistics here implies normative judgment: a 44-percent graduation rate must be awful, according to Fernando Ferrer (one of the challengers of Bloomberg), […]
Plagiarism disorders
Just a brief entry: Margaret Soltan today discussed the plagiarism by Judith Kelly in her “memoir” Rock Me Gently: Again with the uncontrollable memory! What shall we call this? Incontinent mnemonism? Ah, yes, the “I wasn’t aware I was copying words” excuse I’ve heard a few times from some of my enrollees (which is different […]
Introduction drafted for Citizen-Scholar
In response to one reviewer’s comment, I’ve drafted an introduction to put a broader frame around the other chapters. The following is from a passage on the policy feedback of greater educational attainment: The majority of adults have sat through college lectures, both good and bad. They know that college students have to study on […]
Online OED
By Sherman Dorn on August 12, 2005
Thanks to Piers Cawley: there’s an OED gateway that Tarrin Wills has set up at the University of Sydney. From the entry on drop-out, it’s clearly from the older edition (not the OED online for which you need a subscription). But it’s still fun.
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