Higher Education

Thoughts on going up for tenure... again

This year I am up for tenure, for a second time. The process is moving along and with it comes some perspectives on the whole notion of tenure, what it can and cannot do.

On eliminating lectures, a reality-check: Part 2

Part 2 of my response to an article in the July 14 _Atlantic_ about the 'elimination' of lecture. Here we take a look at the specious reasoning about time and datedness, and a look ahead at the rest of the article.