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 […]
Teaching & Learning: Free Resources Page
SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) has launched a new Teaching & Learning hub with a range of free resources […]
Online Teaching, Campus Design Upgrades and Institutional Changes
The times they are a-changin’ for higher education. Or so say a growing number of commentators. They see COVID-19 disruptions as a […]
A Primer on Academic Tenure (and Its Tenuous Future)
In the following Q&A, George Justice, an English professor and author of “How to Be a Dean,” explains the origin of tenure and the waning protections that it affords professors in the United States who have it.
Watch the Video: What Are Biosocial Sciences and What Are They Doing in Education?
In this video, Daphne Martschenko
Can Civics Education Boost Youth Voting? Research Suggests No
New research shows that states that require civics courses do not necessarily have better test scores, more youth voting or young people volunteering at higher rates than other states
Study: Black Students’ Trust in Their Colleges is Lower
Black undergraduates consistently said they trusted the people who run the colleges they attend – and society overall – substantially less than their white peers did. We have termed this difference the racial trust gap, and it was not a trivial difference.
Watch Video: Inspiring Creativity and Curiosity When Teaching Online
In this video Sarah Newman guides you through the process of setting up a workshop to get students interacting through art to help spark creativity.
Watch the Webinar: White Supremacy, “Post-Truth,” and the Failure of Imagination
The webinar, “White supremacy, ‘post-truth,’ and the failure of imagination: An intercultural praxis approach,” occurs on Wednesday, March 10 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.
