Academic joke of the day
Q: How many faculty does it take to change a lightbulb? A: I’ve heard the administration tried to buy it out, but we’re just going to live with it and let it figure things out from bad annual reviews.
Spellings Commission DOA?
Is the report of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education dead on arrival? Secretary Spellings’s touting it might suggest she’ll put some effort into implementing the recommendations, despite David Ward’s refusal to sign it and dissent from some of the basic arguments by the AAUP and others. I try to think of the […]
Education Policy Blog
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An appropriate column on bipolar disorder
Today in Inside Higher Ed, Ohio State historian Mark Grimsley has a perfectly appropriate column on living in academe with bipolar disorder. Chances are that you’ve known someone with bipolar disorder, whether diagnosed or not, “out” or not.
Sociology of medicine dissertation topic
By Sherman Dorn on September 30, 2006
Advice to grad students in science studies: Wired’s The Thin Pill describes the controversy over metabolic syndrome. It would be a great dissertation topic for a medical sociologist or anthropologist.
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