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 […]
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.
Do Women Really Earn Less Than Men?
According to the White House, women earn 77 cents for every dollar that men make. But how does this statistic hold up […]
A Day to Celebrate Small Businesses
Today is Small Business Saturday® in the U.S. – a day to celebrate and support small businesses and all they do for their […]
A Cornucopia of Book Reviews!
Looking for holiday gift ideas or just a good read to relax with over the long weekend? We’ve provided you with three […]
Happy Thanksgiving from Management INK!
Happy Thanksgiving! In celebration of this American holiday, we’re happy to share some Thanksgiving Facts for all to digest! Thanksgiving first became […]
Is Everything a Scholar Writes Automatically Scholarly?
It’s not necessarily the type of peer review that makes an academic article scholarly, argues Christoper Sampson, but the transparency of how the conclusions were reached.
