This is an essay that is published in my new book, Being a Scholar: Reflections on Doctoral Study, Scholarly Writing, and Academic Life. For years, I'd been thinking about writing a piece about college teaching and I finally put it down on paper a couple years ago. Everyone complains about the quality of teaching colleges, … Continue reading College Teaching Is Better than You’d Expect
This post is a preview of my new book, which I just published with Kindle. It's available on Amazon both as an e-book and a paperback. The title is Being a Scholar: Reflections on Doctoral Study, Scholarly Writing, and Academic Life. Below is the book's introduction, which provides the rationale for the book and summarizes … Continue reading My New Book Is Out: Being a Scholar
This post is a collection of some favorite cartoons about life as a professor. Most of them are from the website PhD, which stands for Piled Higher and Deeper. The author is Jorge Cham, who got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and then taught at Cal Tech. Enjoy! ARTOONS ABOUT THE LIFE OF … Continue reading Cartoons about Faculty Life
This post is a collection of some favorite cartoons about the nature of academic research. All of them are from the website PhD, which stands for Piled Higher and Deeper. The author is Jorge Cham, who got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and then taught at Cal Tech. Enjoy!
This post is a piece by David Brooks that was published recently in Atlantic. Here's a link to the original. It's all about the art of humblebragging, which is rampant on twitter and other social media platforms but which has been a core skill for many years among academics. The whole point of humility display is … Continue reading David Brooks — On the Art of Humblebragging
This post is a collection of some of my favorite cartoons about academic life, which all come from the Jorge Chan website PHDComics.com. Enjoy.
This post is an essay of mine that was just published in a book -- Production, Presentation, and Acceleration of Educational Research: Could Less Be More? -- edited by Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe. An earlier version appeared in Aeon in 2018. Here's a PDF of the chapter. Here's the setup for the argument: The … Continue reading The Lust for Academic Fame
This post is a piece by philosopher Mitchell Aboulafia about the destructive emphasis on productivity in American higher education. It was published in 2018 in Chronicle Review. Here's a link to the original. The essay is a fresh take on a familiar problem in academic life, the pressure to publish or perish. He focuses in … Continue reading Mitchell Aboulafia — Higher Ed’s Real Productivity Problem
For years, I've been thinking about writing a piece about college teaching now finally got it down on paper. Everyone complains about the quality of teaching colleges, and there's a lot of truth in the critiques. But what has struck me over the years is how college teaching is better than it should be in … Continue reading How Much of a Problem Is College Teaching? Less than You’d Expect
This post is a collection of some favorite cartoons about life as a professor. All of them are from the website PhD, which stands for Piled Higher and Deeper. The author is Jorge Cham, who got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and then taught at Cal Tech. Enjoy!
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 