Training community college instructors
Teaching community college students requires skills that don’t come with a master’s or a PhD, argue graduate programs that offer a special credential, Inside Higher Ed reports. Temple University offers...
View ArticleSurviving austerity with honor
As times get tougher on campus, political infighting gets meaner, writes Rob Jenkins, who teaches at Georgia Perimeter College, in The Two-Year Track. He calls for academics to rediscover a sense of...
View ArticleLevy: CC profs are overpaid
College professors aren’t working very hard at community colleges and universities that focus on teaching rather than research, argues David C. Levy in a Washington Post commentary. Now president of...
View ArticleFaculty doubt quality of online courses
Professors are skeptical about the quality of online courses, especially MOOCs, according to Inside Higher Ed‘s Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology. Only one in five think “online courses can...
View ArticleWhere are the public intellectuals?
There are “fewer public intellectuals on college campuses” than in the past, opined New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. “Exactly the opposite is true,” responds Rob Jenkins, an associate...
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