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I'm Not Going to the AWP Conference, and I Feel Fine
There's some aspects of the AWP conference that trouble me. Is it me or the conference? Both?
Leaders for Small Colleges
W. Kent Barnds considers the skills that may be particularly needed during a period of dramatic change in higher education.
Let's Get Small
Jeremy Bernstein's "A Palette of Particles" offers a guided tour of the subatomic universe. Scott McLemee goes on a trip.
Taking time to think about expectations for women in undergraduate science
Decades of research in higher education has sought to understand why students come to STEM fields and why they leave. This has been especially true for women in science degree programs.
Teaching with GoogleDocs
Welcome to another entry in our loosely-defined-yet-still-exciting teaching with technology series. This week: Teaching with GoogleDocs!
EdTech Questions about Phoenix
My edtech antennae went up when reading Paul Fain's article yesterday on Possible Probation for Phoenix. It is clear from both the article and comments that this is an important and complicated story.
ABC’s and PhD’s: Financial Planning for College
Please, please, please just let us finance our two kids through college without too much debt. I’m a biologist, by Zeus, not an economist, not an accountant, not a portfolio manager at an investment firm. I seem to do fine spending money, but planning for enormous purchases such as college and retirement are way beyond my comfort (and frankly, my interest) level. Way.
Ethics of Admission, Pt. II: Undergraduates and the Brass Ring
The use of gambling metaphors to describe getting a college education suggests it may be time to stop the merry-go-round.