What my department colleagues and students are doing on #dayofhighered
Lee Bessette has called for a public description of an ordinary day in higher education today, a Day of Higher Ed. I firmly believe in this type of descriptive transparency, so here goes, in a way: I will skip my activities as a chair today, other than noting that my week is looking like the […]
The American Historical Association Tuning project
In February, the American Historical Association announced its discipline-wide “Tuning” project with a grant from the Lumina Foundation. Based on previous work in the European Balogna process and a U.S. pilot project in history in Utah, the AHA will be formulating a generic list of what students leaving various history programs should know and be […]
Assignment realities at community colleges and public research universities
David C. Levy’s screed at the Washington Post this weekend is typical of crankiness among some of those who don’t know much about higher education, believing that face time with students is the bulk of time that faculty teach in higher ed. More than that, he went after community college faculty as the place to push […]
I’m dreaming of a white paper, just like the ones I used to read…
Between the America’s Promise report on graduation, the Center on Education Policy report on School Improvement Grants, and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) report on education and national security, education reporters have their reading lists for the week. No need for real news: press conferences are all (though I have sympathies for the flacks […]
So long, and thanks for all the Stanley Fish
By Sherman Dorn on April 1, 2012
I’ve got insomnia thanks to some minor food poisoning, but it’s not so severe that it requires I be admitted to a hospital, so I’ll take my dyspepsia out on my readers. All 2.17… of you who are awake at this hour, on the weekend, and having nothing better to do than read an academic […]
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