I happen to teach in Rhode Island, but it's not like I have much of a choice, not if I want to stay in my chosen profession. This is the only tenure-track job I was ever offered and there simply aren't jobs in my fields...
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This article notes, quite correctly, that it's going to be real easy to blame all the problems with higher ed on Trump, but in fact they go back long, long.
This professor at the University of Tulsa correctly diagnoses why the liberal arts are being eliminated across American higher education--the rich donors who actually run colleges on boards of trustees.
I am very much on the verge of returning to all in class exams. The New Yorker has a long piece on how ChatGPT has transformed college and none of it is good. He opened Claude on his laptop. I noticed a chat that mentioned...
Ed Kiely on the terrible university leadership in the Britain that matches or is even worse than what is happening in American universities. In the British case, it is being.
I am absolutely disgusted by any professor who uses ChatGPT or other AI to do their jobs: In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture.
Source: https://sunysccc.edu/Academics/International-Education/US-Student-Visas.html As always, don't trust and do verify. The Trump administration has restored the student visa registrations of thousands of foreign students studying in the United States who had minor — and often dismissed — legal infractions.The Justice Department announced the wholesale reversal in...
Barack Obama rarely speaks out. He should--I very much wish he did a lot more. But when he does speak, it's for a reason and it tends to be to.
My views on the Gaza protests and antisemitism aren't particularly popular on the left. I think it is pretty clear that "core activists" in the movement engaged in behavior that.
For years, a lot of people, including the neoliberal Democrats, wanted to run higher education "like a business." This was constantly in the conversation when I started as a professor in the late 00s. Well, they are now run like a business all right, and...
The performance by public school system chiefs in front of the Republican bullies was impressive. It shows that the way to handle Elise Stefanik and such is the same way.
The response to the job crisis among elite academics is a combination of cynicism and being completely out of touch with reality. A few years ago, I was at the.