The Hidden College Problem: When Universities, Not Just Students, Take On Debt. How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life. In the early days of Twitter, I was a keen shamer. When newspaper columnists made racist or homophobic statements, I joined the pile-on. Sometimes I led it. The journalist A. A. Gill once wrote a column about shooting a baboon on safari in Tanzania: “I’m told they can be tricky to shoot. I was among the first people to alert social media. Still, in those early days, the collective fury felt righteous, powerful and effective. Eventually I started to wonder about the recipients of our shamings, the real humans who were the virtual targets of these campaigns. How To Get Started In UX Design -UX Mastery. We’ve received quite a few emails lately from readers looking to get started in UX Design—many coming from a print background (Psst: check out our ebook, Get Started in UX, for the most comprehensive guide to launching a career in user experience design ever written).
Here’s one such email, which I’ve published here with permission: I’m a traditional print-based graphic designer looking to get into UX design. I’ve a good background in the Adobe Suite and traditional print software (QuarkXpress etc). Currently I’m working within the newspaper industry and am fearing for my future, as the industry is in (probably) terminal decline. I am looking to re-skill towards web-based UX design. To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand - Robinson Meyer. Students do worse on quizzes when they use keyboards in class.
Psych 101 was about to start, and Pam Mueller had forgotten her laptop at home. This meant more than lost Facebook time. A psychology grad student at Princeton, Mueller was one of the class teaching assistants. How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps. A few years back, Paul E.
Lingenfelter began his report on the defunding of public education by saying, “In 1920 H.G. Wells wrote, ‘History is becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.’ I think he got it right. Nothing is more important to the future of the United States and the world than the breadth and effectiveness of education, especially of higher education. Student evaluations of college professors are biased and worthless. Photo by LuckyBusiness/Thinkstock It’s student evaluation time again—and I should be the last professor in the world to complain.
With slight exceptions for “caring too much” and courses that meet “too early” (9:10 a.m.), my evaluations are quite good. And yet the student evaluations of teaching (SETs) I’ve received during my decade-long teaching career have meant absolutely nothing. This is because student evaluations are useless. Follow Ostensibly, SETs give us valuable feedback on our teaching effectiveness, factor importantly into our career trajectories, and provide accountability to the institution that employs us. Nathan Heller: Is College Moving Online? Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past.
At seventy, he has owlish eyes, a flared Hungarian nose, and a tendency to gesture broadly with the flat palms of his hands. He wears the crisp white shirts and dark blazers that have replaced tweed as the raiment of the academic caste. His hair, also white, often looks manhandled by the Boston wind. Where some scholars are gnomic in style, Nagy piles his sentences high with thin-sliced exposition. (“There are about ten passages—and by passages I simply mean a selected text, and these passages are meant for close reading, and sometimes I’ll be referring to these passages as texts, or focus passages, but you’ll know I mean the same thing—and each one of these requires close reading!”)
Nagy has published no best-sellers. Minnesota State–Moorhead could cut 18 academic programs: Why do colleges cut academics first in a budget crunch? Photo by Dan Whobrey/iStock/Thinkstock Two universities, both alike in dignity and budget shortfalls, In fair America where we lay our scene.
From not-so-ancient grudge against actually learning at college to new mutiny, Where drastic cuts make administrators’ hands unclean. If you’re planning to attend either Minnesota State University Moorhead or the University of the District of Columbia, best get in your Romeo and Juliet now—and while you’re at it, you should probably learn the formulas for velocity and momentum, and study up on the Spanish-American War. Because soon, these regional public universities may have no departments of English, physics, or history—nor a host of other programs often associated with “college,” including political science (MSUM), philosophy (MSUM), computer science (MSUM), and even economics (UDC).
Debating an MFA? The Lowdown on Art School Risks and Returns. For aspiring artists, December is the cruelest month, when thoughts of pursuing an MFA must turn to action or be cast to?
The winds. In Defense of a Loaded Word.