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Notes From a Community College Humanities Conference
Refreshing. It was refreshing.
Centering Students in the Diversity Statement Debate
With diversity statements under fire, the right response isn’t to give up on addressing equity goals through hiring: it’s to improve what we’re asking of candidates, Justin P. McBrayer and Sarah Roberts-Cady write.
Postdocs Need People, Especially Each Other
The impulse to reach out and talk to another human being is what will help you the most right now—and also in the future, writes Briana Mohan.
Climate Change, the University and ‘The Great Displacement’
A fantastic companion book to Bryan Alexander’s newly published Universities on Fire.
Memorializing a Fraught Past
How to make statues and monuments more meaningful when past figures and events’ legacies are complicated or ambiguous.
Doubling Down on Nathan Heller's Flawed Essay
English professors shouldn't repeat romanticized myths about the state of their field.
Friday Fragments: Parenting Edition
Good news for student parents; good news for purveyors of “dad jokes”; good news from The Boy.
Couch, Clinic, Scanner
Scott McLemee reviews David Hellerstein’s The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner: Stories From Three Revolutionary Eras of the Mind.