A woman hacks her ex-boyfriend’s Facebook account to post a picture of herself in hospital after he attacked her with a baseball bat. A teenager protests against the lenient sentence given to her rapists by tweeting their names in a deliberate breach of the judge’s order. A woman living with a disability uploads a secretly […] … learn more→

Citizen science occurs when data for scientific research is collected by members of the public in a voluntary capacity. Public participation in environmental projects, in particular, has been described as a global phenomenon. But there is a stigma associated with these types of projects. The data collected are often labelled untrustworthy and biased. Research in […] … learn more→

I’m publishing this, inspired in part by the Presidential Forum at the 2013 MLA on Contingent Labor issues in higher education. I am telling my story. As the New Faculty Majority is promoting, faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. I’ve been going over this idea in my head for a while now, even before […] … learn more→

In May 2010, my 39-year-old spouse contracted a rare form of bacterial meningitis. After six days in an unresponsive state, 10 days in intensive care out of 19 total days in the hospital, four weeks of home care, and three months of additional physical therapy, he was able to return to work. As I look […] … learn more→

The fact that MOOCS and online courses have sparked new conversations on your campus about teaching and learning is a terrific development. We should be grateful whenever attention is paid to teaching. The problem is that neither MOOCS or online courses are, in themselves, a strategy to meet the challenges we all face in higher […] … learn more→

You can tell you\’re in a male-dominated discipline in the sciences when a gathering of three or more women working, standing, or sitting together in a professional setting in that field is considered \”remarkable.\” Three seems to be the magic number. When at least three women are collaborating in a male-oriented discipline or conversing together […] … learn more→

In recent years, urban branding has become highly popular. Shifts in global, national, and local economic bases have forced cities and nations to market themselves internationally as cultural hotspots. As cities with distinct cultures and recognisable architectural features are often more popular than those without them, some that lacked those unique features have gone as […] … learn more→

A scholar committed to the digital humanities once summed up his long-term strategy for winning their acceptance with a terse, sardonic comment. “We will advance,” he said, “funeral by funeral.” It\’s the kind of sentiment that\’s often felt, but seldom so well expressed — or so brutally. But assuming that time is on digital culture’s […] … learn more→

By now most of us have made our New Year’s resolutions, and whether they are traditional or new-age, most have to do not only with improvement but also reform: we want to change, and change for the better. A focus on the good means that there is often a moral, and always a values, component […] … learn more→

Search committees are often assembled to ensure procedural fairness, to provide different stakeholders with an opportunity to express their views, and to give a nod to shared governance, which calls for collective decision making on certain appointments. While faculty search committees tend to be fairly homogenous, made up of academics in the same field as […] … learn more→