Edward Tenner’s column at The Atlantic (Higher Education’s Tech Dilemmas) discusses research that shows that hyperlinked reading is not serving students. For a course a couple of years ago, I and the other instructors wrote the lecture notes out in … Continue reading
n intelligent engagement with the past is a critical component for a working public sphere. The totalitarian state is free to use its vision of history to impose its ideological orthodoxy, or alternatively, lacking any voice to the contrary, to … Continue reading
ot much you can say really. The following story from Inside Higher Ed lays out institutions authorizing layoffs of tenured faculty without declaring financial exigency. It’s hard not to see this as a backdoor way of eliminating tenure, or rather … Continue reading
Almost a month after its initial appearance, Mary Beard’s post continues (or continued) to receive comments, most recently one by Teresa Webber, a prominent and influential palaeographer at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she repeats comments to a THE piece. In … Continue reading
friend from the U.K. alerted me to two examples of press coverage of the King’s decision. The first runs 5:42 and is from the BBC’s Radio 4 programme Today. The palaeography chair is defended by Irving Finkel, an assistant keeper … Continue reading
This article from the Washington Monthly raises many questions, surely some concerns, and even perhaps in some quarters optimism. Can we have college for 99 bucks a month? The author, Kevin Carey, followed up with an appearance on NPR’s Talk … Continue reading