Universites Not Out of the Safe Space Yet / www.spiked-online.com By Dr. Walter M. Brasch / 08.06.2016 Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications/Journalism Bloomsburg University Like most Jews, Benjamin Aaron Shapiro, a respected journalist, is an advocate for social justice, following the Jewish concept of Tikun Olam, literally translated as “repair of the world.” Unlike most[…]
What makes some individuals good at learning languages? / Shutterstock By Brianna Yamasaki / 08.04.2016 PhD Student in Psychology University of Washington As a young adult in college, I decided to learn Japanese. My father’s family is from Japan, and I wanted to travel there someday. However, many of my classmates and I found it[…]
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The idea of a human’s life being divisible into distinct stages has been around for millennia, a recurring theme in the literature and art running through all historical periods and places. The early Greeks were particularly fond of the idea, the earliest reference being from lawmaker, and poet Solon (ca. 600 BC), who had ten[…]
Mary I. Bunting was the Rutgers dean who led the fight for coeducation at the United States’ most prestigious universities. The program she created in 1958 to support a community of mature women lives on at Douglass Residential College in her name. By Fredda Sacharow / Rutgers Today When Mary Bunting began her academic career in[…]
By Dr. Timothy Rayner Former Professor of Philosophy University of Sydney Writer/Author Philosophy for Change One hundred years ago, Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was a famous philosopher, oft-quoted and respected, if notorious for his relationship with the authorities of his time. It is unclear why he fell out of fashion. We may have seen Spinoza’s statue in Amsterdam, or[…]
Photo by Unsplash (courtesy of Pixabay.com) By Sonja Trifuljesko Doctoral Candidate, Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Helsinki Prologue When the fireworks in the Senate Square in Helsinki announced the beginning of 2015, they also marked the start of a special year for the adjoining University of Helsinki: its 375th anniversary. Though this jubilee per se might[…]
WE GOT THIS. Sonny Abesamis/Flickr By Dr. Andre Spicer Professor of Organisational Behaviour City University London The gap between expert analysis and public opinion seems to be widening by the day. In the US, there is significant popular support for the policies of Donald Trump which the vast majority of experts regards as questionable, to[…]
(NOTE: Image not included in original article.) By Dr. Shawn Graham Professor or Historical Methods Carleton University Originally published in Internet Archaeology as Graham, S. (2015). Mapping the Structure of the Archaeological Web, Internet Archaeology 39. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.39.1 39:1 (2015) Summary What is the context of our archaeological blogging? When we blog, are we merely shouting into the[…]
By Dr. Antonio De Lauri Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Cultures and Societies of the Middle East University of Milan-Bicocca Young man: Hey, what’s he talking about? Old man: The professor is discussing ideas of justice and humanity in the philosophy of Plato. Young man: Plato? Old man: Plato, the Greek philosopher… Young man: Yeah,[…]
bgr.com / Creative Commons By Dr. Rhon S. Manigault-Bryant Associate Professor of Africana Studies Williams College Critical Thinking, Public Speaking Project / Creative Commons I admit it. College-aged students increasingly vex me, and I am hoping, desperately, that I am not alone in my exasperation. I have the great fortune to teach at one of[…]
Wikimedia Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief When children do not want to do something they have been told to do and argue insistently about the unfairness of life, parents often call upon that reasoning in which is provided the ultimate mantle of authority to which there is no successful response – just because. […]
Wikimedia Commons By George Lakey First, let’s agree that safety is a human need. Studies find that children who grow up amidst threats, violence and insecurity are less likely to thrive as grown-ups. The defensiveness induced by trauma gets in the way of creativity and the learning curve needed for achievement. The anti-oppression movement long[…]
Discussions among the students of UC Berkeley Anthro 136e Summer 2011 course at El Presidio de San Francisco National Park about the uses of digital technology in Archaeology – ©2011 Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley CA. Creative Commons (NOTE: This lead image was not included with the original article). By Chiara Bonacchi and Gabriel[…]
Creative Commons By Sheila A. Brennan and T. Mills Kelly Professors of History and Art History George Mason University It seems like only yesterday that we were transitioning from the first-generation, read-only web to the “read-write web” of Web 2.0, that fosters community and collaboration where users participate in online content creation. But does[…]
Courteous reader, this ensuing treatise hath lien by mee a long time, penned, but in a confused and undigested manner, as I gathered it, practised, or found it out by industry and experience. Julie Gardham, Senior Assistant Librarian at University of Glasgow’s Special Collections Department, takes a look at the book that was said to[…]
Safety issues on dorms are often not discussed. Penn State By Andrea A. Curcio / 04.06.2016 Professor of Law Georgia State University Throughout the summer before my daughter left for college, I repeatedly warned her: never put a glass down at a party; use the buddy system when going to parties; and never go upstairs[…]
Some of the country’s most respected public universities have been devastated by years of cuts, and corporations have stepped in to turn publicly funded education into private profit. The new documentary “Starving The Beast, reveals the struggle in education funding taking place across the country at publicly funded universities. (AP Photo/David Goldman) AUSTIN, Texas —[…]
Chalk messages in support of Donald Trump at Emory University. (Photos courtesy of Amelia Sims) From Susan Svriuga at The Washington Post / 03.24.2016: Conservative students at Emory University are planning a free-speech event for next week, after an outcry on campus over messages supporting Donald Trump. Students woke up Monday morning to find messages[…]
Melissa Click, a University of Missouri professor who teaches communication and journalism, was caught on tape threatening a journalist for covering a campus protest. She was subsequently fired for this and other such incidents she incited. From Michael Shermer at Skeptic Magazine / 03.23.2016: The French political journalist and supporter of the Royalist cause in[…]
What’s the point of academics producing amazing research if they don’t share it widely with the general public? Shutterstock Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. But, as academics Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr have warned, the overwhelming majority are not shaping today’s public debates. Instead, their[…]
Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law at the Law School, discussed his views on personal freedom and state intervention at the Humanties Center recently: ‘The greatest enemy of society has always been some vision of the good.’ (Staff photo Emily Berl/Harvard News Office) As a 4-year-old boy in 1939, Charles Fried escaped with his family[…]
‘I have come to see my concentration as an investment in versatility and intellectualism’ My mom frequently told me that my eyes were bigger than my stomach, as I ambitiously piled food high on my dinner plate — and was only able to finish half. Similarly, I arrived at Harvard with a passion for history[…]
Joseph Van Horn, a Ph.D. student in political science at UCLA and a Trump supporter, wonders why his fellow scholars aren’t willing to take seriously the merits of a formidable political movement. Maria J. Avila for The Chronicle From Andy Thomason at The Chronicle of Higher Education / 03.11.2016 eter Calautti finds a lot to[…]
Is a fact-bound science curriculum enough to become a good scientist? Illinois Springfield, CC BY-NC-ND At a time when states are proposing to cut funding to nudge students away from the humanities toward “more job-friendly” STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects, I want to make a confession: I am the love child of an[…]