My friend and colleague in the struggle, T.F. Charlton, has been hot on the trail of biased media narrative that emerged from mass media’s coverage of the Olympics. At the head of the pack were the many stories that seemed unable to come to grips with Gabby Douglas, the talented mini-dynamo who now has severalRead More “P.R.E.A.M.: Page Views Rule Everything Around Me; New Media, Old Tricks”
I will be revisiting this article. For now, just read and enjoy.
Not Our Kind of People: Why No One Talks To For-Profit Students
Just as I was reading the latest newsflash from NCES on today’s data release on higher ed employees and student aid, my e-mentor Sara Goldrick-Rab of UW-Madison was already tweeting the juiciest tidbits: The net price difference among two years is also reported: But Sara’s question of “Why?” is what I want to focus on.Read More “Not Our Kind of People: Why No One Talks To For-Profit Students”
Adam Smith Warns: Beware the Profit-Seekers
This reminds me of the time I read Smith in a grad seminar. I mention the reading offhandedly to my mentor, the economist. His response: Do they know the REAL Adam Smith? That’s a good question for us all. Do we know the real Adam Smith?
The Logic of ‘Dumb’ Investments in Curly Hair
My friends over at Racialicious tweeted a link to an interesting story from New York Magazine: In the article author Kevin Roose takes aim at the unrestrained enthusiasm among venture capitalists for “dumb” internet investments. Kevin’s ideal form of this stupidity can be summed up, apparently, in one site in particular: But Silicon Valley, likeRead More “The Logic of ‘Dumb’ Investments in Curly Hair”
The Apocryphal Janitors with College Degree Narrative Persists in Daily Beast
For as long as I have been aware of the college narrative there has existed this boogeyman: some people go to college and end up as JANITORS! The horror! Janitors now join baristas and occasionally strippers as cautionary tales of bloated, out-of-touch higher education run amok. Today’s story, “Janitors With College Degrees and the HigherRead More “The Apocryphal Janitors with College Degree Narrative Persists in Daily Beast”
MOOCs, Coursera, Online Education and Performing Innovation
You have been warned about my unicorn killing habit, right? Good. Let’s dive in. By the nature of the work I do on for-profit colleges, I also closely follow online education. For many years the two have been conflated and in many important ways that conflation continues in both research and the greater cultural imagination. WhileRead More “MOOCs, Coursera, Online Education and Performing Innovation”
New Comment Policy: No Country For Ignoratio Elenchi
I have been engaged on the internet for a long time. I’m no erudite n00b who is shocked by how wonderfully, brilliantly, disgustingly horrible this space can be. Despite that I have always maintained an open comment policy. If you weren’t going on a fag/nigger/cunt rant (I don’t abide by those) or trying to sellRead More “New Comment Policy: No Country For Ignoratio Elenchi”
Very Inspiring Blogger Award: I Taketh & I Giveth
Social media has been good to me. During a difficult stretch in life, graduate school, and life social media has connected me with friends, peers, colleagues and mentors. One of my favorite e-people is Ashley. We met on Twitter and we continue to grow our offline friendship footprint. Today, Ashley shared the wealth by payingRead More “Very Inspiring Blogger Award: I Taketh & I Giveth”