Horowitz at Emory
Inside Higher Ed’s blurb about the heckling at David Horowitz’s Emory University speech has a link to the Emory Wheel article. Thus far, that looks to be the best reporting on the event.
Response to Dean Dad on the Brett Favre chemistry lecture series
Dean Dad responds to my recent post about teaching with a discussion about what to do with tenured faculty who are poor teachers and resistant to improving what they do. I think that’s somewhat separate from the issue I discussed (what happens when students complain about teaching in the middle of a semester), but he […]
Poor teaching != indoctrination
The response to the AAUP’s statement Freedom in the Classroom (released September 11) has been fascinating, from Peter Wood and Stephen Balch’s tendentious attempt to fisk the report (thereby burying the legitimate criticisms) to Erin O’Connor’s more focused criticism to Stanley Fish‘s column this Sunday, where he takes the statement (rightly) to task for an inane […]
Sloppy reporting on college tuition
Michael Kirst’s blog is fairly typical in misreporting tuition trends: The College Board just reported that the average price for a college education once again rose faster than the inflation rate this year, particularly at public four-year institutions The cost of attending college is rising, as is student debt, but there are two ways in […]
From confectionary to connected reasoning
By Sherman Dorn on October 27, 2007
Occasionally, I have students or colleagues who provide a stream of oddly (and sometimes randomly) connected chunks of material as if the stream is sufficient to carry an argument or thought. In the past I’ve had little trouble understanding why such streams are illogical but great trouble understanding why the author of the stream thinks […]
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