[ad_1] Riyanah/iStock/Getty Images Plus The night I slept on the Legos, I thought for sure the lesson would be that I couldn’t go on like this. Couldn’t go on this exhausted, this drained, this isolated. Months into the pandemic, I was hitting the wall. As for many families, the shuttering of in-person school was devastating …
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[ad_1] This posting is the third and final installment in a slightly fictitious tale about being an adjunct professor in the early 1990s. My mind obsessively future thinks as I fight off nausea and try to finish the lecture. Can you imagine throwing up on your students while teaching a class? What does that conversation …
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[ad_1] Every so often I read a piece that connects familiar dots in new ways. Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter With Kansas? was like that when it was published; Frank put together stuff I knew in ways I hadn’t and brought new clarity to old questions. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed did something similar for …
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[ad_1] In three decades as chief lobbyist for the American Council on Education, Terry W. Hartle had a front-row seat for just about every important federal policy discussion that affected colleges, their students and their employees. He retired this winter after 30 years as senior vice president for government and public affairs at ACE, the …
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[ad_1] Loyola University of New Orleans students are protesting their university’s decision to not retain the director of its African and African American Studies program. Scott Heath, that program’s director and the Jesuit institution’s only Black tenure-track English professor, said his contract is set to expire at the end of this academic year. “No one …
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[ad_1] Today on the Academic Minute, part of Cornell University Week: David Shoemaker, professor and interim chair of the Sage School of Philosophy, explores why the lack of a sense of humor can signal bad things about a person. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Most Popular Stories Most Popular [ad_2] Source link
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[ad_1] As graduation season rolls around, conservatives are taking aim at an annual tradition that aims to celebrate the accomplishments of minority students. Affinity graduation celebrations, a long-standing tradition at many institutions, have become the latest target in the conservative attack on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at U.S. universities. The events, which are optional …
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[ad_1] A roof collapsed at an off-campus home near Ohio State University Saturday night. Fourteen people believed to be students were hospitalized, CNN reported. “It appears that the roof was overloaded with students—we’ve heard numbers between 15 and 45 students on a rooftop that was not designed to have anybody on it, and it gave way,” Columbus …
[ad_1] The Class of 2023 is graduating into an economy transformed by the pandemic, rapidly evolving technology and potentially destabilizing levels of inflation. According to a new survey from Handshake, an online recruiting platform that connects students and employers, this year’s graduates are adjusting their job search expectations accordingly and entering the workforce with a …
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[ad_1] The word shrewd has appeared in 117 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 31 in “The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be” by Cade Metz: Mr. Altman, a slim, boyish-looking, 37-year-old entrepreneur and investor from the suburbs of St. Louis, sits calmly in the middle of …
