Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing
An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without embedded cues, your work will sit undisturbed on other scholars’ PDF libraries, or languish unread among hundreds of millions of other documents on the Web. That must be what what we want, based on on what we do.
AERA Appoints Inaugural Editors for New Open-Access Journal
The American Educational Research Association, the nation’s largest professional organization devoted to the scientific study of education, has named three professors from […]
Snooping Professor, Friendly Don? The Ethics of Learning Analytics
Where should we draw the line between normal data gathering about university students–with the intent of helping them, of course–and outright intrusiveness?
The Personal Consequences of the Academic Jobs Crisis
The story of a young German academic who followed the agreed-upon career path only to find the roadsigns don’t always lead to where they indicate.
CEO Kirsty Hughes to Leave Index on Censorship
After two years at the helm of Index on Censorship, Chief Executive Kirsty Hughes will be leaving the leading international freedom of […]
How to Avoid That Fatal Social Media Faux Pas
University professors are not immune to epic fails when using social media. But the lesson learned isn’t to withdraw completely, argues Ereika Darics, but to know thine audience.
The Ongoing Evolution of Universities into Newsrooms
Social media and alternative ways of measuring academic impact are helping turn universities into giant newsrooms, argues Maxine Newlands. That’s not necessarily bad, and it may be inevitable.
Senator Elizabeth Warren Among New Fellows of AAPSS
A new U.S. senator, the founder of Institute for Women’s Policy Research and the director of the Center for the Study of American Politics are among seven distinguished scholars named 2014 fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
