Teaching Twittering?
…the text-messages and twitters “aren’t graded, they don’t require research, they don’t observe grammar and punctuation and spelling, and they address peers, not adults.” Bauerlein is especially critical of the…
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The Rise Of The Economics Major
…that less than a quarter of top schools required English majors to take a course in Shakespeare. The success of the economics major suggests that bright, ambitious students don’t want…
How Will The Colleges Cope?
…are used to seeing it this way, and I don’t think we are ready for the “green eye shades” who measure acceptability in terms of standards that are not intelligible…
Financial Pain on the Campuses
…campaign – but so far, the projected savings, many based on Tennessee employees’ suggestions, don’t look substantial: eliminating vacant positions ($2 million), trying to reduce coal, oil, and natural gas…
Why I Left Academia
…that the discrimination I faced was so pervasive that there would be no escaping it in the years ahead. Don’t misunderstand what I write in the paragraphs that follow. I…
Shouldn’t All Students Learn Economics?
…typically don’t ask for help with their finances—and don’t avail themselves of help when it is offered. According to American University financial aid director Brian Lee Sang, students often adopt…
Why Read In Advance? Professors Don’t.
…if profs are supposed to be no more than role models for assimilating good “learning skills and strategies,” won’t someone eventually decide that universities don’t need so many of them?…
No Stimulus Money For Colleges
…was. We know that several of your friends are going there, but don’t you think you might prefer to learn electrical work or something like that? Son: Well, that makes…
Latest Vanished Requirements: Harvard English
You say you’re an English major—but you’ve never read a word of Chaucer, you don’t know which century Dickens wrote in (wasn’t he the author of “Scrooged”—or was that Bill…
Fixing the Anything-Goes Philosophy at Brown
…it. Don’t like math and science? You’ll never be asked to take a single class in either at Brown. Find learning a foreign language too difficult? No worry—you’ll never have…
The ABA’s Diversity Agenda
…of $160,000. Some of those students are, of course, minority students. The saddest fact is that research now suggests that affirmative action policies don’t just bring students into law school…
Those Thin-Skinned Professors
…do. This is a mis-estimation of off-campus debate, of course, for public life allows for lots more criticism and raillery than scholarly exchange does. Furthermore, the recourse to “You don’t…
Preserving The Core At Georgia
…America these days, don’t really have anything that can be described as a core curriculum in the traditional sense: a series of lower-level courses that all undergraduates are required to…
Tenure And The Litigation Culture
…tenure. First, as assistant professors become more skilled at defending their jobs, universities will increasingly abandon tenure track positions. You don’t hire what you can’t fire. This is already happening…
Why Do Textbooks Cost So Much?
…point that’s trying to make), and cartoons and other illustrations for students who learn better by looking at pictures. Your textbook-bill total for the semester is now $475.60 for just…
University Of The Absurd
…think it’s a big deal if white people listen to black rap. I don’t understand why we’re getting so upset about it… I don’t care, I don’t feel offended.” But…
Academic Gibberish And The Hermeneutics Of Mistrust
…disproportionate share of their political donations to left-leaning candidates. A recent study of donations by faculty at Princeton University during the current Presidential election season shows that every faculty donation…
Excerpt: “Beet” – A Satiric Look At An Awful College
By Roger Rosenblatt (Harper Collins, $23.95) “Don’t bother to come home if you still have a job,” Livi Porterfield called to her husband as he shoved their two groggy children…
The Aristocratic Reign Of Group Preferences
…One of these obstacles is the claim that a community makes on us, when some member of it says, in effect, “Don’t forget where you came from.” Another obstacle is…
College Applications – Still Absurd
…learn, more often than not the AP classes don’t earn the advanced place in college that students expect. But this doesn’t matter – just as no one seems to mind…
Ed School Politics – Still A Problem
…a dispositions test at her school. “I don’t know how to answer that,” she replied. As NCATE tells it, “the term ‘social justice,’ though well understood by NCATE’s institutions, was…
Do Rich White Kids Win With Affirmative Action?
…first job, but after that, how he fares in life will depend on his own productivity. Academic credentials don’t count for anything in the competitive world. Results do, and elite…
Does Affirmative Action Work? Don’t Ask The California Bar
…Bar would be eager to learn whether preferences are, in fact, backfiring on intended beneficiaries. But so far they seem eager to avoid finding out. This at a time when…
Another College Aid Boondoggle?
…generous corporate donor to the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2006. And its top three executives were the largest individual donors to the committee as well.” In other words, Republican…
AAUP To Critics: What, Us Biased?
…outside critics, “Don’t mess with me.” In other words – by Nelson’s own admission- it’s less a rigorously reasoned policy statement than it is a confrontational ultimatum disguised as a…
Research As Self-Branding
…in the race/gender/sexuality/capitalism mindset that they don’t realize just how strange the titles sound to outsiders? No matter how much intelligence the authors bring to the project, they can’t overcome…
Diversity Gobbledygook
…best interests Q: If you don’t think that a department would discriminate against a competitive minority scientist, might oversight from a diversity officer be interpreted as friendly pressure to make…
Those Scandalous Student Loans
…don’t have the time or interest to learn the mechanics of Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, PLUS Loans, Perkins loans, FFEL consolidation loans, and so on. Neither do most college and…