08
Aug
When people evolve faster than their reputations
How tight is the hold of first impressions?
5 min read
Newsletter
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
22
May
Why it is icky to offer free conference registration for student volunteers
Some academic societies do this thing where they offer free conference registration to a limited number of students, and in
3 min read
18
Apr
Why doesn’t NSF redact horrible GRFP reviews that demonstrate overt bias?
The ongoing conversation about inequitable outcomes in the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) is scaffolded
5 min read
17
Mar
Recommended reads #207
Higher education’s other diversity crisis (the article is about Oxford, but really, it’s about everywhere)
Insect decline gets
1 min read
15
Mar
Undergraduate research: course credit vs. getting paid
Undergraduate labor powers many university laboratories. Many of us faculty in primarily undergraduate institutions simply would not be shipping much
5 min read