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Today’s students study less

The perception is that today’s over-achieving, college-driven kids have it — whatever it is. They’re not just groomed; they’re ready. There’s just one problem.? Once on campus, the students aren’t studying. [via A&L Daily] [ READ MORE ]

Putting myself out of a job?

Russell Jacoby writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that Freud, Marx, and Hegel are gone from their original disciplines and being generally forgotten, left to other disciplines’ selective adoption of their writings and ideas. The most interesting aspect of all this is Jacoby’s suggestion that it is precisely their concern with history and the [ READ MORE ]

60s faculty fading

The NYTimes has a somewhat lackluster article on a purported generational shift in university faculties as the massive baby-boomer hires begin to retire. The basic claim is that the historical crucible that forged a generation of left academics is no longer a tangible aspect of younger professors’ personal political experience. Instead, the end of the [ READ MORE ]

Open textbooks

I just came across this Open Textbook site on Slashdot. This is clearly a direction I will have to consider given my political views on open source (fledgling as they are). It also suggests the possibility of truly open source textbooks. I suppose this could be done via a wiki with chapter headings on the [ READ MORE ]