Category: Future of Education
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3 Things I’ve Learned Since Joining HASTAC
Featured Image Credit: HASTAC-DML on flickr It’s been about a week since I first received the email confirming my acceptance into the 2017-19 HASTAC Scholars cohort. It seems like a huge blur of excitement between this and the many other things happening with doctoral candidacy, though a very welcome one. Before letting my head get any […]
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Book Review: Reading Compassion, Advocacy, and Understanding in Tressie McMillan Cottom’s “Lower ED”
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s book Lower ED: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, Cottom makes an important intervention on the public perception of the for-profit college. Where many would take up arms against for-profit colleges for exploiting their students by charging more than public universities without real guarantees of a job after […]
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Hastac and academy commons
How will tomorrow’s university resist the intrusions of neoliberal economics? How will universities and societies optimize their growing corpuses of open data and research findings? Hastac is a great place to share knowledge and build imaginative solutions to answer these questions. Over the past two decades, a lot of attention has been given to the […]
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What’s Next for HASTAC: A Conversation with Co-Directors Cathy Davidson and Jacqueline Wernimont
Beginning July 1, HASTAC will have a new co-director—the multi-talented Jacqueline Wernimont (pictured left), Director of the Nexus Lab and Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Professor Wernimont will join Cathy Davidson (pictured right), HASTAC Co-Founder, Futures Initiative Founding Director, and Distinguished Professor at the […]
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Welcome Arizona State University, HASTAC’s New Institutional Partner!
Beginning July 1, 2017, Arizona State University (ASU)—together with the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)–will lead HASTAC in the organization’s next phase of “changing the way we teach and learn.” After twelve productive years at Duke, the Nexus Digital Research Co-op will now co-host HASTAC at ASU in partnership with the Graduate […]
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New book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone
15th June 2017 For immediate release New book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone Facet Publishing have announced the release of Reading by Right: Successful strategies to ensure every child can read to succeed. Literacy has been recognized as a human right for over 50 years in several international declarations and […]
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Introduction and Afterword (Review by Christina Bosch)
Part of the Collaborative Book Review of Structuring Equality: Handbook for Student-Centered Learning. The book is available here. This post reviews the book’s introduction and afterword by Cathy Davidson and Danica Savonick. Many of us may gloss over the introduction and afterword of a book, eager to get through the packaging and into the gifts that lie in the center of […]
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Proposal for a University Department for ‘The Study Of Time’
Proposal for a University Department for ‘The Study Of Time’ by Rick Doble INTRODUCTION Today circular repeating time (right) is being replaced with linear time as the digital clock on the left shows. Time is the most used noun in the English language according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. This is […]
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Tressie McMillan Cottom Kills It on on Daily Show
If you missed HASTAC Steering Committee member Tressie McMillan Cottom being interviewed by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, you will have at least two more chances to hear her talk about her stunning book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. Prof Cottom is not only a sociologist […]
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Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education
Monday, March 6 | 2 PM to 4 PM EST | GC Room 9100 (Skylight Room) | RSVP Twitter Chat: @FuturesED #fight4edu Live stream: http://bit.ly/fight4edu-live Join the Futures Initiative on Monday, March 6, 2017 from 2-4pm for a roundtable discussion on Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education, in which we will share strategies across the globe and highlight […]