The lead article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education Review is titled “The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps.” More than 350,000 Americans with advanced degrees applied for food stamps in 2010, part of “an often overlooked, and growing, subgroup of Ph.D. recipients, adjunct professors, and other Americans with advanced degrees who have had [...]
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Welcome to the Knowledge Factory
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 8, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/welcome-to-the-knowledge-factory/
May Day: Here, There and Everywhere
A reader asks why I did not stay home from work and join the May Day protests today, and I feel like this question deserves a serious response. Partly, I have always had a phobia about crowds, and never willingly put myself into a crowd situation. I don’t even like to go to an agricultural [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 1, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/may-day-here-there-and-everywhere/
Who’s Afraid of Distance Learning?
It used to be that a smart, motivated young person could work hard, earn a doctorate, do a good job as a junior professor, and live happily ever after as a tenured professor. It also used to be that a smart young person could work hard, get into a good college, and expect to be [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 20, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/whos-afraid-of-distance-learning/
Green Teaching: What the World Needs Now
In President Obama’s speech last night, he talked a fair amount about the importance of making higher education affordable for all Americans, and about how essential a highly skilled workforce is to America’s future. I felt like I was in some kind of time warp. Wasn’t Bill Clinton talking about just the same things, almost [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 25, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/green-teaching-what-the-world-needs-now/
Censorship in Academe, 21st century style
Unfortunately, the banning of books by Mexican Americans in Tucson last week was not an isolated incident. It’s part of a larger pattern in American education. At the elementary school level, it takes the form of resisting bilingual education for students whose family language is not English, and—for example—still teaching “Thanksgiving” as though it were [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 22, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/censorship-in-academe-21st-century-style/
Paradigm Shift: From Competition and Destruction to Nurturance & Collaboration
I am almost 50 years old, and in my current lifetime I have lived through one of the most intense, rapidly changing periods of human civilization on this planet. The technological discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were steadily gaining steam when I was born in the early 1960s; “progress” seemed infinite, and infinitely [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on July 19, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/paradigm-shift-from-competition-and-destruction-to-nurturance-collaboration/
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