For-Profit Colleges as Used Car Lots
Houston, we have a problem. We’re giving away degrees like the pieces of paper they are. Anyone who can sign his name can pay tuition, and is therefore somehow eligible to be a college student....
View ArticleBreaking Down the Five-Paragraph Essay at Education Week
I often reach out to my colleagues in the blogging community to see if they’d be interested in sharing posts. That usually means other English teachers or folks who write about education in general....
View ArticleFirst-Year Commodity: The Adjunct Professor Labor Crisis in Composition...
Yesterday, I spoke at the Thomas R. Watson Conference at the University of Louisville about the use of adjunct professor s in composition departments. It was a pretty big conference with lots of...
View ArticleShould I Get an Online Master’s in English?
Apparently, lots of people are wondering whether or not to pursue a master’s degree in English. Three of my posts, Why Did I Get a Master’s Degree in English?, Five Bad Reasons to Earn a Master’s...
View ArticleOn the Irrationality of Art
This piece on the Irrationality of Art was left as a comment on my post Why Did I Get a Master’s Degree in English? When I read it, I decided it was much too insightful and beautifully written to be …...
View ArticleThe Chronicle of Higher Education and the Adjunct Project 2.0
Gather round. I’m leaking some big news today. The Adjunct Project and The Chronicle of Higher Education are about to release a game changer. For the past several months, I’ve been collaborating with...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of StraighterLine’s Professor Direct Program
StraighterLine’s new “Professor Direct” program claims to empower teachers by allowing them to set their own prices for courses. As Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed puts it, “‘self-employed professor’...
View ArticleMLA 2013 Convention and the Year of the Adjunct
Did you feel it? During the first weekend of 2013, Boston pulsed to the beat of the adjunct. At the MLA 2013 Convention, you couldn’t turn around without hearing about contingent faculty issues in one...
View ArticleMarsellus Wallace on Higher Education
Moody’s Investors Service, a company that ranks the creditworthiness of borrowers, has just issued a negative short-term outlook for the entire sector of higher education. Yeah, the entire sector....
View ArticleDIY U and a New Vision For Higher Education
I read DIY U in about 24 hours. Anya Kamenetz’s book is only 163 pages, but I don’t think it contains a single skippable sentence. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher...
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