There has been a lot of press recently about how easy life is for academics. How little work we do. How tenure gives us an easy ride. If we were not tenured, trustees and state legislatures would be able to “rightsize” our institutions. Higher education would be saved. Costs would go down. Students would learn…
Author Archives: Dr. Sandra Jamieson
On Valentine’s day, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article about Dale Askey, now a librarian at McMaster College (Ontario), and the infamous lawsuit brought against him in June 2012 by Edwin Mellen Press, the publisher he allegedly described as “dubious” in a 2010 post on his personal Web site, Bibliobrary. The CHE article,…
A Writing Intensive Course That Is Useful For Graduating Seniors? THE CHALLENGE: I have spent much of my career considering what skills we should teach in first-semester writing courses to help students navigate the literacy demands of academia. This semester I am considering this question from the other end: what skills should we teach students…
So, this summer the students who started with our new General Education program are about to graduate. The program was implemented 100% as soon as approved with no pilot or phase in period (don’t ask), so courses were revised to meet the new outcomes somewhat on the fly–and a little slower than would have been…
Jersey Left 