Today my twitter-league, Rhonda Ragsdale, launched the public interface of her research agenda on historic black towns. It’s a wonderful project that may be of particular interest to my many … Continue reading
From GenomeWeb comes a summary of Lee Skallerup Bessette’s post on Insider Higher Ed about one of the hidden expenses of academic life: the conference debt. This post started as … Continue reading
Reblogged from orgtheory.net: Boston Review has a new article by sociologist Claude Fischer on the topic of poverty research. He covers a lot of ground in a few pages. For … Continue reading
Reblogged from karlyberezowsky: By: Karly Berezowsky Published by Ground Report at: http://www.groundreport.com/Business/For-profit-College-Route-to-Opportunity-or-Unemplo/2945584 For-profit colleges have landed in the spotlight for deceptive advertising tactics and for giving out degrees that weren’t … Continue reading
Reblogged from zunguzungu: The Chronicle of Higher Education has done the sensible thing and fired Naomi Schaefer Riley: We now agree that Ms. Riley’s blog posting did not meet The Chronicle’s basic … Continue reading