Opinion

Mike Daisey says the truth is very important to him. I couldn't agree more.

Whether it goes by the name of exaggeration, half-truth, misrepresentation, distortion, or dissembling, lying is endemic in all of education.

Kathryn Hume says you need to focus on the match between you and the specific department and institution, not general issues about why you want a job.

Rick Santorum's critiques aren't helpful to the conservative academics he says need support, writes one of them, Matthew Woessner.

Will prospective students have a positive experience trying to interact with your school?

Having been out of graduate school for several years now, it’s easy to forget sometimes that the advice we received in graduate school often did not match our reality or our preferences. I’ve written about the “publish or perish” emphasis and the lack of emphasis on teaching in most graduate programs. There are other manifestations of this lopsided emphasis on research.

The fine blog Not of General Interest asks the right questions about UD's MOOC-mucking, so let's do Part Three of my series on my experience as a lecturer in Udemy's Faculty Project (I've now recorded two talks for Poetry) as a kind of interview.

An occasional correspondent writes: "I'm the most junior tenured member of my department, in which some of the more senior tenured faculty are not on speaking terms with each other. For complicated reasons, I'm also going to be the chair of this department next year. Any tips on how to handle this situation?"