Tag: The Academy

52 Results

| March 7, 2011

Crazy U

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

| February 23, 2011

I want to believe

Returning to the subject of today’s earlier post: The authors of that study write this in summation: Statistical...

| November 22, 2010

university presses

After reading yet another story this morning about the problems university presses find themselves in, with...

| November 12, 2010

education as a public good

In a typically smart column about online education, my friend Reihan Salam quotes Anya Kamenetz: The only way to...

| November 11, 2010

making connections

One of Tim Burke’s colleagues is a little concerned about the breadth of interests represented by Tim’s syllabi: My...

| September 8, 2010

Rortyan hacking

Cathy Davidson: A “hack” is a reconfiguration or reprogramming of a system to function in a way different than that...