Archive for 'Higher Education'
Faculty Blog Round Up: The Mark Taylor Op-Ed
It’s been over a month, and the faculty blogosphere is still buzzing about Mark Taylor’s New York Times editorial “End the University as We Know It.” That’s not too surprising, since Taylor called for, among other changes, abolishing both departments and tenure. ACRLog blogger Scott Walter linked to the editorial here right after it was [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on June 11th, 2009 under Faculty, Higher Education.
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The Challenge Of Under-Prepared Students
Reference work may occasionally live up to its glamorous reputation. For every experience with a student of high potential that challenges the reference librarian’s skills and knowledge, there are more interactions with students who give the impression of being under-prepared for college-level research. So we academic librarians may groan a bit, but we ultimately dig [...]
Posted by StevenB on May 19th, 2009 under Higher Education, Worth Reading.
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Thinking Differently, Thinking the Same
Two interesting takes on the future of scholarly communications this morning:
In the New York Times, Columbia University’s Mark C. Taylor urges us to “end the university as we know it.” His suggestions include completely re-thinking our approach to the curriculum, the organization of the university into academic departments, and the place of tenure (spoiler alert: [...]
Posted by Scott Walter on April 27th, 2009 under Faculty, Higher Education, Scholarly Communications.
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Lawyers, Librarians, Clergy, and Coaches
No, this is not the answer to the “Top 5 Professions You Would Like to Pursue” quiz that is likely appearing on Facebook even now; it is a partial listing of the “other professional staff” positions found on American campuses cited as part of a Chronicle article on the increasing number of “support staff” in [...]
Posted by Scott Walter on April 20th, 2009 under Higher Education, Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues, Teaching, Worth Reading.
Comments: 6
We Can Handle the Truth
We recently lost a great champion of intellectual freedom - Judith Krug, who called attention to attempts to withdraw books from libraries, challenged the government on Internet censorship, and built coalitions to preserve our freedom to read and consider ideas without penalty. She embodied what we as librarians and academics value and she defended it [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on April 18th, 2009 under Higher Education, Information Ethics, Information Literacy.
Comments: 2