01
Sep
Academic Mixtape 3
Good stuff that you might have missed
4 min read
Latest
28
Aug
What's happening to WVU: a concern for all of us
Cuts to humanities, foreign language, and literature also imperils science.
6 min read
14
Aug
What are better models for evaluating scholarship?
We need to wrestle with the reality that impactful scholarship is more than pubs and citations.
7 min read
10
Aug
Academic Mixtape 2
good stuff to read
2 min read
08
Aug
When people evolve faster than their reputations
How tight is the hold of first impressions?
5 min read
02
Aug
Academic Mixtape 1
A distillation of cool stuff that's crossed my radar
4 min read
31
Jul
How important is the overhead that we bring in?
We are trained to see nuance and complexity. Academics are skeptical of overly simplistic theories, and we are methodical and
8 min read
26
Jun
How about funding programs for PUIs that aren’t deficit-based?
There are a bunch of federally-funded programs that are designed to support students and faculty who are at teaching-focused institutions.
5 min read
24
Jun
Recommended reads #208
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty: “We show that faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent
3 min read
21
Jun
When to use the terms PUI, SLAC, MSI, HSI, RPU, etc.?
We’ve got an acronym problem when it comes to classifying colleges and universities. No, it’s not that we
7 min read