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Opinion

‘Some People Are Just Born Good Writers’

Jill Parrott shatters the myth that you either have writing talent or you don’t.

Another Bad Year for History Jobs

American Historical Association sees 12 percent decline in openings, for fifth straight year of downward trend.

Fear of Accented English

Students outside the U.S. doubt reliability of instruction in English that is not from native speakers, study finds.

Paying for the Job Search

Fordham’s English department is giving those finishing doctorates $4,500 each to help with the many costs associated with finding a position.

Bringing Their Perspectives to Class

Annual survey finds that students want to and increasingly are doing so, many times related to diversity.
Opinion

Hitting the Accelerator

Scott McLemee reviews The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms, in which social networks, big data, memes and the like are presented as extreme cases of the creative and disruptive potentials or our tool-oriented species.

Do Professors Need Automated Help Grading Online Comments?

Blackboard is getting ready to add a tool to its learning management system that would provide grading guidance based on algorithms, but some faculty members question need.

Cheating Without Intent?

Ohio State isn’t the first college where students are accused of cheating via GroupMe. But could the messaging application trap innocent students because of others’ misdeeds?