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FILTER RESULTS ►In Which We Learn That Some Critics Call Any Literary Artifacts Poems
Neat-o, huh? According to this recent Inside Higher Ed article by Scott McLemee, in which he reviews Mathew L. Jockers’s new book, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods & Literary History (University of Illinois Press), “some critics apply the word ‘poem’ to any literary artifact.” The article begins: “A poem,” wrote William Carlos Williams toward the end of [...]
DigEdCon 2013 - Infrastructure and Innovation with Dr. Kenneth C. Green
Also the associated slides are located on the Saylor site here. Casey blogs on the influential Inside Higher Ed blog Digital Tweed via the EdSurge Newsletter.
The tangled web of bologna
Ry Rivard, "Duke Faculty Say No", Inside Higher Ed 4/302013: Bass argued that “politics got in the way of good sense” when the faculty voted last week. Bass said faculty argued they had not been consulted enough by Lange and the administration, though faculty committees have been working on the issue for nearly a year. “This had [...]
Houston Prof Charged With Making Terrorist Threat for Saying There Will Be Blood If He Is Denied Tenure
Inside Higher Ed: Prof Charged With Threat Over His Tenure Case: Authorities have charged Lei Wu, an assistant professor of software engineering at the University of Houston - Clear Lake, with making a "terroristic threat" based on statements he made to a colleague, The Houston Chronicle reported. Wu allegedly told...
2012-13 College Faculty Salaries
Inside Higher Ed, On Pace With Inflation: The average salary of a full-time faculty member increased by 1.7% in 2012-13, roughly keeping pace with inflation, according to a report being released today by the American Association of University Professors. While the average increase was a bit larger last year (1.8%),...
Sign of the Times: Schools Hire $100,000/Year Rankings Managers
Inside Higher Ed: Universities Hire Rankings Pros: Some Australian universities are paying about $100,000 a year each to employ full-time managers dedicated to working with ranking agencies and developing strategies aimed at climbing league tables. The University of New South Wales recently advertised for a manager of strategic reputation, while...
March Madness, Classroom Edition: Belmont Beats Kansas for Academic Basketball Championship
Inside Higher Ed, An Academic Slam Dunk: [In} Inside Higher Ed's academic bracket,... victories are determined based on each team’s multiyear Academic Progress Rate, the NCAA’s tool to measure classroom success.... [I]n the event of an APR tie, we turn to the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate, which measures...
Faculty Received Biggest Pay Raise in Four Years
Inside Higher Ed, Minimal Gains in Faculty Pay: Median salaries for tenure-track faculty members at four-year colleges and universities were up 2.1% in 2012 -- matching the rate of inflation for the year, according to a study being released today by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources....
Outsourcing Friedman
Since the world is flat, per Thomas Friedman, I’m going to outsource my incredulity at his column on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to John Warner over at Inside Higher Ed: Thomas Friedman has MOOCs in his sights and that should...Show More Summary
Federal Court Rejects Bid to Seize Iranian Antiquities at Harvard
Inside Higher Ed: Federal Court Rejects Bid to Seize Iranian Antiquities at Harvard:"Several Americans with claims against Iran have tried to collect money owed by that nation by going after antiquities at various American institutions. Show More Summary
Are Assholes More Successful in Academia?
Following up on my prior posts (links below): Inside High Ed, Academic Jerks: It’s a discussion that started over beer and chips and grew into a blog post now grabbing attention in higher education circles: Do asses do better in academe than their more tactful peers? “All of us had...
We’re Number Twelve
February 23, 2013 Posted by Jay Livingston US students taking the GRE ranked below students from all but one of the other countries. Thank Allah for Saudi Arabia. As the Inside Higher Ed article, points out, this is not a fair comparison. Show More Summary
Quotes: "Higher Ed Will Go Jihadi" [Against Accountability]
If you think teacher prep negotiated rulemaking was a nightmare, just wait for [higher ed accountability]. Higher ed will go jihadi. - Anonymous "insider" from Bellwether Partners
Professor Allows Students to Cite CNN, But Not Fox News
Inside Higher Ed: A Professor vs. Fox News: Students in a political science class at West Liberty University were given an assignment recently to keep a "politics journal" in which they would record their reactions to various articles they had selected. The instructor at the West Virginia public institution included...
When Everyone Wins … With a Zero
(Kenneth Anderson) Inside Higher Ed has an amusing story of the unanticipated consequences of a professor’s grading system. (“Dangerous Curves,” Zack Budryk, 12 February 2013.) Johns Hopkins computer science professor Peter Frohlich used the following rule for his grading curve: [E]ach class’s highest grade on the final counts as an A, with all other scores adjusted [...]
Colorado Librarian Jeffrey Beall Slapped With Canadian Libel Claim
Colleen Flaherty reports at Inside Higher Ed that the Canadian Centre for Science and Education has hit Beall with a libel claim over his Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013. This follows the recently recognized case of Dale Askey reported on by Library Journal, The Hamilton Spectator, Macleans, and Inside Higher Ed. (h/t Glyn Moody)
Students Boycott Final Exam, Prof's Grade Curve Forces Him to Give 100% A's
Inside Higher Ed: Dangerous Curves: Since he started teaching at Johns Hopkins University in 2005, Professor Peter Fröhlich has maintained a grading curve in which each class’s highest grade on the final counts as an A, with all other scores adjusted accordingly. So if a midterm is worth 40 points,...
Cheating on U.S. News Rankings Results in $10 Million Gift
Following up on my previous post, Bucknell Joins Rankings Hall of Shame (Jan. 28, 2013): Inside Higher Ed: $10 Million for Telling the Truth: Conventional wisdom holds that good news about alma mater inspires donors, and that bad news may scare them away. Bucknell University is today announcing a gift...
Edwin Mellen Press files lawsuit against academic librarian
As reported on the Princeton Academic Librarian blog, and by Inside Higher Ed, Edwin Mellen Press has filed a lawsuit against McMaster University librarian Dale Askey, for a post Dale wrote on his personal blog while he worked at Kansas...
Ry is Ready, Rearing for Washington
If anyone is ready for Washington, it’s Ry Rivard, looking so dapper in his trench. Rivard, a statehouse reporter for the Charleston Daily Mail in West Virginia, is moving to Washington to work for Inside Higher Ed as a technology reporter. Show More Summary
