Bypassing any call for public input, the Department of Education announced the details of its Open Textbook Pilot last Monday, releasing a notice inviting applications for $5 million in new competitive funds. Several Senators who invested in the success of the Open Textbook Pilot, however, have continued to raise concerns with the Department’s actions. At the end of last […] … learn more→

One of the primal egotistical issues that every person deals with is the feeling of not being restricted by anything. There are a lot of forex traders who will mention the point where they got interested in starting their trading career, and almost all of them will say that it was because they wanted more […] … learn more→

I’ve said many times there’s a systemic anti-male bias on campus, but for the most part I’ve only documented it with words. It’s not just words which show a distinct dislike of males, and allow me to demonstrate with one campus which is putting their money where the y chromosomes aren’t (the self-identified ones, anyway): […] … learn more→

  When I started my PhD I knew there would be challenges. For people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) there’s a huge boulder blocking the road, stopping us from turning intention into action. The way we process information and respond to the world affects how we work and how we connect to others, and for […] … learn more→

A common phrase once applied to those serious on embarking on a scholarly path was “publish or perish”. All that mattered to foster a successful academic career was to get articles (typically double-blind peer-reviewed ones) accepted into so-called leading or international journals. Now that is no longer enough. The pressure on academics to promulgate their […] … learn more→

The advantages of cloud software program isn’t always honestly doing the equal stuff you’ve performed earlier than however over the net. It’s all about offering new commercial enterprise skills and riding system performance. The shift to executing commercial enterprise applications in the cloud is now upon us due to compelling business advantages in place of […] … learn more→

You’ve all heard the advice that it’s good to write regularly. Perhaps it was phrased this way – productive writers write a lot because they write regularly. You’ve been told that you can get a lot done if you just write every day. That it’s no good hanging around waiting for the next big gap in your […] … learn more→

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news – sooner or later, we’ll all reach the end of our lives. Many of us are not keen to face this event, nor the time that comes directly before. It’s actually hard to say what is the bigger taboo, death or the personal care that most of […] … learn more→

I’ve sneered quite a bit at Gender Studies, and while I feel it’s obvious on the face of it that this is a topic well worth a sneer, a recent op-ed article in the Washington Post by a professor of sociology and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University really […] … learn more→

Sara did not expect much to come from her visit to the university’s counseling center, but she was concerned enough about the dark thoughts she’d been having that she decided to go anyway. As she sat in the waiting room after turning in the patient questionnaire, she thought: “It’s probably not a big deal. I’m […] … learn more→