Students, faculty and staff members, and alumni of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, were horrified and outraged at the sight of hundreds of students crowding onto a popular street full of bars and restaurants over the weekend to celebrate the men’s basketball team’s win over Duke University. The possibility of spreading the coronavirus … Read more
I have always felt excitement at the beginning of a new academic year or semester. When I was a kid, I loved going back-to-school shopping for clothes, folders and other supplies. After bringing home my goodies, I spent the rest of the night organizing my new Trapper Keeper with paper and dividers carefully written out … Read more
The fair-weather fan gets a lot of contempt from the die-hards. In today’s Academic Minute, Duke Kunshan University’s Kyle Fruh wonders if these fans have it right after all. Fruh is an assistant professor of philosophy at Duke Kunshan. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Source
Representative Frederica Wilson, a former Head Start teacher and coordinator in the Miami-Dade school district, will head the House education committee’s higher education subcommittee. The Democrat from Florida said in a statement she’d work to increase access to higher education. “I will seek to help make attaining a quality degree more accessible for all, which … Read more
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled against Peoria Monday, saying the city violated the state Constitution by giving a $2.6 million taxpayer subsidy to Huntington University, a private institution, The Arizona Republic reported. Peoria, a suburb northwest of Phoenix, offered in 2015 to pay the Indiana-based university nearly $1.9 million if it opened a satellite campus in the … Read more
It’s not unusual for Theodore Hoddep to get a call when a university physics department is under threat of cutbacks or closure. As director of project development at the American Physical Society for the last 16 years, he’s typically gotten one or two calls a year. “I’ve now gotten, I think, six requests in the … Read more
Today on the Academic Minute: Kyle Fruh, assistant professor of philosophy at Duke Kunshan University, wonders if fair-weather fans have the right approach. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Source
A district court judge ordered that the Rhode Island School of Design pay a former student and survivor of sexual assault $2.5 million for the school’s failure to secure her study abroad living quarters, according to a verdict filed in United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The student, who is unnamed … Read more
Yesterday’s post consisted of musings on what a capstone course for a liberal arts major at a two-year college might look like, followed by a call for suggestions from readers. I have the best readers ever. The responses, mostly by email, were generous and thoughtful. When I had the chance to read … Read more
Dr. Jenae Cohn is the Director of Academic Technology at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading, which will be published by West Virginia University in June 2021. Jenae graciously agreed to collaborate on this Q&A. Question #1: You recently moved from Stanford to … Read more