trigger warnings and trust

So, to continue my earlier post: Last semester I taught a course called “Confession and Autobiography,” which...

on academic helicopters

David Graeber comments, in a brief follow-up to this essay, If you look at the lives and personalities of almost any of...

Peter Enns and the problem of boundaries

I just came across this 2013 post by Peter Enns: I’ve had far too many conversations over the last few years with...

and while I’m co-signing

This is exciting to hear about: Joseph Cohen says he’s fed up with Blackboard. The leading course-management software...

mine and yours

Why do social media always have to be about social competition? Everyone on Facebook is aware of how many friends they...

evaluated

My colleague Heather Whitney has a post up at ProfHacker about one aspect of student evaluations: their occasional lack...

Crazy U

Let me tell you a few things about Andy Ferguson’s new book Crazy U: it’s well-researched, insightful,...

a brief, random thought

This week, as I’m helping my students get their first major projects written, and dealing — I am long expert in...

Via.

too much research

I couldn’t agree more with this call to reduce the amount of published academic research. Too much of what is...