Like rain from an approaching hurricane, the madness from our degenerating campuses pours down ever harder. The latest: College writing seminar will tell profs to not grade based on quality of writing in order to fight ‘white language supremacy.’ I grant this is just a seminar and not a pronouncement from on high by admin […] … learn more→
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Seminar: Fight white supremacy by not grading on quality
Fake qualifications are on the rise. How universities can manage the risk
Fake credentials have become a global problem. The National Student Clearinghouse, a US NGO that offers a degree verification service, reports that falsified academic credentials are a serious, prevalent and ever-increasing problem. In 2015 the New York Times reported on a billion-dollar industry consisting of 3 300 “diploma mills”. These were fake universities that sold certificates for all […] … learn more→
Nazis (almost) welcomed to campus
One of the most annoying bits to the Leftist lunacy taking over our campuses is the sheer hypocrisy of their intolerant tolerance. Sure, every form of sexual deviancy variation is tolerated, even the pedophilic, genital mutilatative, and violent tendencies of other cultures is tolerated in the name of sacred Diversity…but opposing ideas, especially those involving […] … learn more→
Some tentative advice about advice
Caveat lector… or let the reader beware: tentative advice about advice Having come to the end of my PhD journey (I study self-help books, so I feel entitled to label things a ‘journey’ now), I have digested rather a lot of advice over the last four years. If you’re anything like me (neuroticcurious and concerned […] … learn more→
The care and feeding of critical friends
Getting critical feedback on your work is one of the most difficult things to negotiate, whether you’re just starting out as a scholar or have published and been applying for grants for years. We know that academia requires us to jump through hoop after hoop, so finding good ways to deal with this process of […] … learn more→
Getting ready to write about “the literature”
You’ve all heard that the doctorate is about making an original contribution To the literature. Well, that’s right, although what that means is not nearly as scary as it sounds. What you may not be told is that doing a PhD is a lot about information management – finding information, cataloguing it, saving it and […] … learn more→
Graduate education “reformers” won’t ask the graduates for advice
I’ve written of the Ph.D. glut a few times, and things really were different when I applied to grad school: I was rejected from the majority of graduate schools I applied to. It wasn’t that I was all that weak an applicant, but the recent collapse of the USSR (at the risk of giving things […] … learn more→
How will Brexit affect British universities?
In the campaign leading up to the Brexit referendum, most parties involved in higher education , including 103 university presidents, 56% of university students and even Jo Johnson, former UK Secretary of State for Education – and Boris Johnson’s brother, Conservative critic for Premier May -, have expressed their wish to remain in the European Union (EU). […] … learn more→
Overworked and isolated: the rising epidemic of loneliness in academia
Universities were created to be places where people learn and educate together. But a UK survey has found 46% of researchers feel lonely at work. Social isolation is particularly common among early career academics – 64% of PhD candidates report such feelings. Spending time alone, can be more difficult for some people than others – but isolation should not […] … learn more→
Another revealing interview with an education poo-bah
The people running our institutions of higher education are fascinating. They’ve now gone so long without any checks on their power, without anyone to tell them “you have no clothes,” that they generally make fools of themselves when they speak…generally to a media lacking the guile of a child, or at least the guts to […] … learn more→
