There’s been a ton of buzz lately about the role of Classics in the larger curriculum of the humanities and in higher education (or any education ..
This weekend, I got to thinking about how scholars in the humanities might rate their research productivity and quality. This line of thinking ..
Four weeks ago, I started writing my contribution to the North Dakota Quarterly special issue dedicated to Humanities in the Age of Austerity. ..
I think it was Einstein who said “everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Books on higher education ..
Last week an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Timothy Brennan created a good bit of buzz in my social media world. The author ..
The ground floor of O’Kelly Hall on the lovely campus of the University of North Dakota is getting a well deserved upgrade. For those ..
As readers of my blog know, I’ve had a recent interest in the concept of craft and the slow movement. Part of that interests appears ..
Christopher Newfield’s The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (2017) should be required reading ..
For this week’s reading in my graduate seminar on the history of higher education, I asked the students to read Gary Hall’s ..
This weekend, I put fingers to keyboard to produce a course description for my honors course in the 2015-2017 University of North Dakota ..
Yesterday our department had a 3-hour meeting to discuss how we might adjust our curriculum now that our graduate program has been de-funded. ..
This weekend I finished Charles Dorn’s For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America (2017) which I had assigned ..
Just a quick post today on teaching this and next semester. As readers of this blog probably know, I’m teaching a course in the spring ..
There was a neat little article in the Chronicle of Higher Education yesterday on academic fashion, clothes, and professionalism. I’ve ..
I traveled a bit last week and didn’t have much time to blog, but I did read David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules: On Technology, ..
I found Dimitri Nakassis’s recent blog post in response to Mary Beard’s recent column in the TLS pretty interesting, and it seems ..
I am really excited to share Defending History: The Graduates’ Manifesto with the world. This small book emerged over the course of my graduate ..
As readers of this blog know, I’ve been posting my occasional thoughts about the budget cuts at the University of North Dakota. Most ..
One good thing about traveling is (especially on “smaller regional jets”) is the opportunity to read. The seats and tray tables ..
Like many people on campus at the University of North Dakota, I’m trying not to fixate of budget issues. After all, most people on campus ..
At a meeting a week before spring break, one of the student representatives expressed concern about the University of North Dakota budget ..
This past week, I got a seemingly innocent survey asking me about my research productivity. It was circulated by our Vice President of Research ..