Tag: The Academy

52 Results

| August 26, 2010

iron sharpens iron

There’s been a lot of talk in my Twitter feed and elsewhere online about this NYT story on open-access online peer...

| August 2, 2010

plagiarists’ excuses

This is a reasonably good story about plagiarism, covering the usual theories about How Social Media Are Changing Our...

| June 29, 2010

too much research

I couldn’t agree more with this call to reduce the amount of published academic research. Too much of what is...

| June 24, 2010

re-evaluating

Ross Douthat disagrees with Stanley Fish and me, but the article AKMA linked to in his comment on my first Fish post...

| June 24, 2010

Fish follow-up

A generally thoughtful piece by Mark Bousquet, with some valuable considerations of the various ways — legitimate and...

| June 15, 2010

evaluating the humanities

Here, in a nutshell, is the insoluble probleem with “the humanities” in the academy, by which I mean most people in...

| June 14, 2010

the teacher’s dilemma

No thinking person can simply be for or against digital technology. You have to be able to use your critical faculties...