Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Women’s Own Behavior Boosts Gender Disparity in Academia
Concerns about gender equity in academia are persistent and sadly not new. A recent paper details evidence that women may inadvertently contribute to gender disparities in conference presentations by requesting lower profile roles. What can be done to address that?
Giving through Social Media – How Has Giving Changed?
Yesterday was #GivingTuesday, a day set aside to encourage philanthropy. Following in the footsteps of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, “Giving Tuesday” offers the opportunity […]
Let’s Abandon That Qualitative/Quantitative Dichotomy
Are you doing qualitative research? Quantitative research? Howard Aldrich suggests that rather than defaulting to one of those terms and their tail of connotations, why not just describe your good research.
Can Federal Funding for the Social Sciences Survive in 2015?
The change in political balance in the U.S. Congress almost certainly will impact the fortunes of government-funded social and behavioral science next year. It’s time, argues Howard Silver, for universities and private industry to join the effort to preserve and protect these disciplines.
Madhumita Banerjee on Integration Quality in Multichannel Services
[We’re pleased to welcome Madhumita Banerjee of American University of Sharjah. Dr. Banerjee’s article “Misalignment and Its Influence on Integration Quality in […]
Will SPOCs Live Long and Prosper?
We’re familiar with MOOCs — massive online courses. But what’s happened to the smaller — and more human-sized — online courses of yore?
Leiden Statement Emphasizes Importance of Social Science, Humanities
A network of coalitions of research universities from around the world have come out with a strong statement stressing the importance of social science and humanities in the academy and among policymakers.
View From Korea: Higher Education Without Utopia
South Korea’s educational edifice has been praised near and far. But after a year spent among attentive and excellent students, Daniel Nehring wonders if the ‘pressure cooker’ apsects of the system aren’t sowing the seeds of a permanent status quo.
