How to improve student evaluations of your teaching
On the CELT Blog, I reflect on sociologist Dustin Kidd’s advice for How to improve student evaluations of your teaching.
Category: Academe
Too much reading
Cross-posted from the CELT Blog, how I responded to mid-semester teaching evaluations that said there was too much reading in my class: Too […]
MOOC students learn a lot, if you don’t count all the ones who fail [Update appended]
Imagine a health study claiming that patients exposed to a new, controversial therapy had outcomes slightly better than those who got the tried-and-true therapy […]
Theology and the marketplace of ideas
The world of Catholic theology in the United States (or at least, that portion of it that exists online) has for the […]
What would Kierkegaard have thought of MOOCs?
For every communications technology, there are those who want to exploit its potential to “revolutionize” education. Surely, some enterprising chap in the […]
Are small private colleges in trouble? – Magazine – The Boston Globe
While the Times was publishing Jeffrey Selingo’s piece on colleges’ financial troubles, Jon Marcus’s article on the same subject appeared in the […]
Why every college is struggling financially
A friend who works primarily in health care recently asked me why so many colleges and universities are having financial troubles, cutting […]
Once everyone gives up on academe, the job market will be great
The latest job-market figures for religious studies were recently released by the American Academy of Religion. Across all subdisciplines, the market was […]
Just how bad is the academic job market in religious studies? (Chart)
In preparation for a presentation I’m giving this week on “Theology as a Vocation in a Bad Job Market,” I compiled some […]