Advocates of open access to the scholarly literature won an important battle this week when the faculty of Harvard’s arts and science college agreed to grant the university a license to distribute all of their publications freely over the Internet. The university has committed to the creation of a repository that will make that information [...]
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The University of Pennsylvania has announced a $15 million gift from one of its board members, Christopher Browne. The gift will establish five named chairs in the school of arts and sciences. Mr. Browne is the managing director of the investment house, Tweedy, Brown Company, and since the Insider actually has invested with that firm [...]
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To the surprise of absolutely no one who has ever worked at a college or university, the scheduling of classes at Yale University appears to follow no particular pattern of good practice. Rather, classes are put in time slots of optimal convenience to students and faculty. Few classes are scheduled for Monday mornings, and almost [...]
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Two current stories tell us a lot about what’s going on at Yale. First, the number of low-income students attending this school are dropping even as the number of those attending Harvard has increased significantly. One reason given for the rise in Harvard’s standing among low income families is their 2004 financial aid initiative to [...]
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It was P.T. Barnum who said something like, “I don’t care what you say about me, just spell the name right.” That can’t be true of the accompanying article that reports the discovery of a small arsenal in the Brooklyn home of Columbia faculty member Michael Clatts, a medical anthropologist, and his roommate. That this [...]
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It probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but Stanford faculty favor Democratic presidential candidates with their financial contributions. What’s interesting is that the same campus provides a home to the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank that recently brought former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld onto their faculty as a visiting fellow. Suffice it [...]
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Columbia professor Sudhir Venkatesh has published a new book on his sociological studies of gangs in the housing projects of Chicago entitled “Gang Leader for a Day. A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets.” Some of the work portrayed in this review seems more than a bit beyond normal academic research. Professor Venkatesh even was [...]
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It appears that a multi-year effort to revise Harvard University’s academic calendar has come to fruition. The new calendar is similar to that currently used at many other major institutions and moves fall semester final exams to December. In addition, a three-week January term has also been created. Spring semester will end before the beginning [...]
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You knew this would be coming at some point, but it seems that some faculty at universities including Columbia have banned the use of laptops in their classrooms. This is an issue that faces everyone teaching in an Internet-enabled classrrom. We’ve heard of other solutions, including shutting down the router systems so that students could [...]
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It appears that Columbia University has seen fit to clarify earlier news reports that a group of faculty were planning to travel to Iran. According to some Iranian media, this trip was to have been undertaken in order to apologize for introductory remarks made by Columbia president Lee Bollinger prior to an address by Iranian [...]
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