A weekly collection of interesting things around the web.
For the first time, last year more women than men earned doctorates. Tenured Radical crunches some numbers and calls out a commenter.
The Times Higher Ed (London) reports that the PhD is a gateway to employment. Commenters aren’t so sure.
Comic strip xkcd makes fun of physicists.
Dean Dad reflects on the first week of the school year.
Evaluating college teaching is a challenge, because 1) professors aren’t generally promoted for teaching and 2) there’s no standard way to measure learning.
Academia runs on professional writing — but few professors were taught to write well. Michael C. Munger offers some tips.
We too often conflate “the humanities” and “the university” — so the question isn’t “Can the university survive the 21st century?” but “Can the humanities survive it?”
Richard Vedder argues that the People and the Academic Class hold different ideas of what higher ed is supposed to be doing.
Women faculty members seem to do better at unionized campuses.
A faculty member at the University of New Mexico was found to be moonlighting as a phone-sex dominatrix — and then all hell broke loose.
Female Science Professor takes issue with the idea that academics slow down after tenure.
Timothy Burke offers tongue-in-cheek advice for becoming a public intellectual.
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