Comment on 2012 Bancroft Prize by pianiste
Jeez, the quote from the JIIA is from a whole long report; it’s the tip of the iceberg and it’s there in specificity to give a little flesh to the numbing abstractions and tables of stats. There are a...
View ArticleComment on Kentucky Offers Free E-Book of Radio Icon’s New Memoir by jsibelius
DrDave, I started to think you just made a good point about the general public not being aware, except that isn’t really true. The do-not-call list, email spam, internet ads that appear to have read...
View ArticleComment on Samuel Johnson Prize for ‘Mao’s Great Famine’ by hibpsych
Interesting. The story stopped me because I have just downloaded a bunch of Nosek’s own paprs on implicit associations. I am confident he would do a good, unbiased job. The article’s author needs to...
View ArticleComment on Kentucky Offers Free E-Book of Radio Icon’s New Memoir by...
I would not be at all surprised if this is the goal.
View ArticleComment on Kentucky Offers Free E-Book of Radio Icon’s New Memoir by...
There’s a difference between “disruptive” and encouraging irrational sorts to key your car or worse. People who already assume that “Republican = Nazi” aren’t big on subtle ways of expressing...
View ArticleComment on Kentucky Offers Free E-Book of Radio Icon’s New Memoir by...
Scrutiny, not intimidation, or causing people to lose their jobs. The somewhat similar use of contribution information by the No On 8 bunch in California has certainly caused me to be much less...
View ArticleComment on Kentucky Offers Free E-Book of Radio Icon’s New Memoir by...
Yes, imagine if someone had sent out a letter showing which of your neighbors contributed to a campaign in support of same-sex marriage. I rather doubt many of those who think this is a good idea...
View ArticleComment on Kentucky Offers Free E-Book of Radio Icon’s New Memoir by...
Agreed. If someone started mailing out letters showing which of your neighbors contributed to various gay civil rights groups, that would not be even slightly intimidating, especially in non-coastal...
View ArticleComment on Kentucky Offers Free E-Book of Radio Icon’s New Memoir by...
I’m guessing that you have never been a conservative in a leftist controlled area, where you dare not put a political bumper sticker on your car for fear of having it keyed.
View ArticleComment on New Director Named for U. of Washington Press by kyushumntsphil
Paul Hanstedt’s report on test-taking culture applies here where I live in Japan, too. For students to live in such a culture, the urge to ask questions dries up, because questions by their nature...
View ArticleComment on Sparing Edgar Allan Poe by Derek Bruff
”Meanwhile, small group teaching will make a come-back in all years.” That doesn’t sound too bad to me. Neither does “more spaces will become adaptable and more spaces will become possible points of...
View ArticleComment on Sparing Edgar Allan Poe by Derek Bruff
Lectures indeed promote deep learning–for some students. For most students, however, other forms of interaction (with content, with instructors, with each other) are more productive. Yes, lectures have...
View ArticleComment on Sparing Edgar Allan Poe by Derek Bruff
One note: Peer instruction works at places other than Harvard. See “Peer Instruction: Results from a Range of Classrooms,” http://is.gd/5UiUiw, by Fagen, Crouch, and Mazur for the data.
View ArticleComment on Hatfields, McCoys, and Scholarly Publishing by Sharon Sanders
Dr. Rice was my history professor when I attended WV Tech. He knew so much about WV and his classes were really interesting. Glad to see his book is taking off after the TV miniseries.
View ArticleComment on Critics Attack Closing of U. of Missouri Press by momiss
Is this part of the growing trend by college and university administrators to expunge the printed word on the nation’s campuses? It certainly looks like it.
View ArticleComment on Critics Attack Closing of U. of Missouri Press by marcomeneses
Closing of U. of Missouri Press: very sad! Are we looking to destroy the printed book and promote the e-book (digital publishing)?
View ArticleComment on Critics Attack Closing of U. of Missouri Press by profe1
This is a sad decision, but it seems to be part of the ongoing administrative attacks on shared governance and the move to make faculty no more than company employees of a corporation.
View ArticleComment on Critics Attack Closing of U. of Missouri Press by europrof
It surprises me that more university presses are not organized as separate non-profit entities with their own shared governance model, like other auxiliary units sometimes are. If they could be...
View ArticleComment on Critics Attack Closing of U. of Missouri Press by elizabeth66
I’ve spent my entire career in higher education, and I question thecurrent definition of “shared governance.” What it really means: faculty decide what to do and the administration should do it....
View ArticleComment on Supporters Mount Effort to Save Journals of American Literature by...
That may be the case, but Twitter is really only one of many examples of how this might play out. I did research on a very specific, somewhat complicated aspect of the behavior of a specific species of...
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