Earlier this week, a cool Twitter thread happened, started by @_Varsha_Venkat’s query to historians about any pivotal, paradigm-shifting (for them) books they’d read
By now, all of the higher-education world is familiar with the saga of Silent Sam, a statue of a Confederate soldier erected on the UNC-Chapel…
The fear that hangs over all of my writing is that I will never finish the big projects. Actually, it’s even worse than that: I fear not…
Last week, my provost asked me about the research on “empathy” in teaching and learning. He’s interested-as I am-in how my university can improve student…
[CW: discussion of sexual assault, trauma] Ever since Socrates upbraided his followers in the Agora, there has been a strong tradition among educators to bitch…
Oh, look–the “unbundling” folks are back at it, with a spate of recent articles in edtech and “edupreneur” sites dredging up the idea of finding…