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In Which a Reader Hits a Nerve
A longtime correspondent writes: Is there anyone who specializes in remedial education, especially math? Or is it kind of farmed...
Reconsider the Credit Hour
Higher education leaders should work together to find an alternative to the Carnegie Unit for measuring academic credit -- unless they want the government to impose one, writes Steven D. Crow.
The Carnegie Unit: Articulate and Expressive
There is no national emergency, writes Bernard Fryshman: Higher education's longstanding method of defining academic credit remains valid today.
Advice for Wannabe Profs
Terri E. Givens considers what to tell a would-be graduate student about the job market and life as an academic.
ELI 2010 From a Distance
I'm still depressed about not attending the 2010 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, "Learning Environments for a Web 2.0 World."...
Motherhood After Tenure: teaching in dark times
Monday our semester begins and I’m struck once again by how fortunate I am to begin again, to start over...
Putting the Ph.D.'s to Work
Even old news can be dismal, and that is the case at hand. For about 40 years, by my calculation...
Guest Book Review: Wall in My Head
The Wall in My Head : Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain. Eds. Rohan Kamicheril and...