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| Coming Down From the Clouds: On Academic Writing | On February 11, a team of scientists announced that they had recorded the sound made by two black holes colliding. Despite all the noise in the universe, their sensitive equipment found evidence of ripples in space-time, a core element in Albert Einstein鈥檚 general theory of relativity. It was an鈥 |
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| A Tale of Two Newmans | The expanding controversy over President Simon Newman鈥檚 words and actions at Mount St. Mary鈥檚 University in Maryland provides an opportunity to reflect on how much has changed since a previous Newman, Cardinal John Henry Newman, authored his still widely read The Idea of a University (1853).鈥 |
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| Neem has essay published on the emergence of common schools | |||
| Margaret Spellings's Vision for Higher Education | In the week between the revelation that the University of North Carolina鈥檚 Board of Governors was looking at former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to lead the 16-campus system and her ultimate selection last Friday, most of the reporting and commentary focused on whether the board and鈥 |
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| Where our notions of public, charter schools come from | Last month, the Washington state Supreme Court determined that charter schools are ineligible to receive public school funds under the 1889 state constitution. |
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| These Videos Could Change How You Think About Teaching | Going to lunch with students changed Michael Wesch鈥檚 attitude about teaching, and he is trying to share his personal transformation through a series of videos he hopes will go viral. |
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| The Daily Show in the Age of Irony | As Jon Stewart leaves the stage, we have a chance to reflect on his legacy. News comedy is much older than Stewart, but Stewart became not just a superstar but鈥攆or some Americans鈥攁 lodestar. How could that be? |
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| Whatcom View: Society, law benefit from scholarship in humanities | Are the humanities useless? Or can they produce 鈥渋nventions鈥 like the natural sciences? If our only understanding of invention is a technological product, perhaps the humanities are useless. But if we include new insights into culture, insights that transform our relationship with the world鈥 |
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| The Social Impact of Humanities 'Inventions' | Are the humanities useless? Or can they produce 鈥渋nventions鈥 like the natural sciences? If our only understanding of invention is a technological product, perhaps the humanities are useless. But if we include new insights into culture, insights that transform our relationship with the world鈥 |
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| Controversial online college on its way to North Carolina? | Johann Neem, a professor at Western Washington University who has also been critical of WGU, says the model is especially troubling for its on focus low-income and working-class students. He fears that students with financial pressures at home will increasingly be steered to the WGU鈥檚 online鈥 |