Inefficient but necessary journal work today
I’ve mostly prepped the next article to appear at EPAA—I am waiting to hear back on a few things—and am now on the one for early August. There are the usual tedious issues, and it’s taking a little more time than I expected (or maybe my brain is being inefficient today and needing frequent breaks […]
Defending Ward Churchill??
A group of academics have now started signing a petition defending Ward Churchill, calling themselves Teachers for a Democratic Society. Essentially, the petition makes the argument both that the process leading to Churchill’s dismissal has been flawed (and presumably will be flawed even though Churchill is in the middle of an appeal process with the […]
Spanking Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish is perfectly entitled by academic freedom and our more general freedoms in this country to believe that There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech… and It’s a Good Thing, Too, but he’s not entitled to misstate the record on Kevin Barrett without expecting some criticism. Fish claims that there is a dichotomy of […]
The Little Professor whomps on the CHE anonymous columns
Miriam Burstein (aka The Little Professor) whacks the anonymous dyspeptic column for 6. Best academic snark I’ve seen in a while (and I have access to high-quality academic snark).
Frederick Mosteller, 1916-2006
By Sherman Dorn on July 24, 2006
ASU educational researcher and statistician Gene Glass just distributed a notice by Gale Mosteller of her father’s death yesterday. Fred Mosteller was truly one of the giants in 20th century statistics, right along with John Tukey (Mosteller’s frequent collaborator). My friend and former fellow history grad student Tim Hacsi was at Harvard several years ago […]
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