Physicist at Large

I am usually uninterested in using this blog to discuss the politics of the  non-academic world, but I will make an exception because I had ...

Erika Christakis, the Yale faculty member who attracted massive protests for a very nuanced email on hard questions of speech and offense, ...

I'm going to tread somewhat lightly on some of the issues around student protests, not so much to avoid offense as to focus on bigger-pi...

One point I'm coming to realize is that many of the things that drive me crazy in higher ed come, in part, from a type of restlessness. ...

I have in my "drafts" folder a long post about why higher ed's ongoing struggle to implement "assessment" and all of...

Having noted the problem with under-funding of the fundamentals while the special projects get special treatment, I should note that it is n...

The "Education" part of Higher Education really comprises two different sides.  One side is fairly bread-and-butter, and for the m...