#Colleges

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

New from me: Drawing on a survey of 20K+ students from 55 universities, @RealClearEd and @TheFIREorg have ranked schools according to how healthy the free speech climate is on campus.

Dr. Pragya Agarwal FRSA

DrPragyaAgarwal

The digital divide is acute during lockdown with 700,000 children not having access to devices or broadband for learning from home. I am trying to set up a project to

Tristan Ahtone

Tahtone

1/ On this day in 1862, President Lincoln signed into law the first #MorrillAct, establishing land-grant colleges & universities. Now thriving, the institutions seldom ask who paid for their good

Thrinadh Reddy

thrinadhreddyb

A clear cut understanding of concepts is needed, if we want to implement mathematics around it. If a student understands what is a zener diode and all the history and

Stephen Evans

Stephen_EvansUK

The @AoC_info @CollegeComm England report today is welcome. Lots of thought has gone into it & there's lots of sound ideas. Good to see the sector leading this. A few

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

1/ Thank you, Dr. @lisa_iannattone, and right on! And as an environmental engineer I never learned about physiology, internal organ function, etc. The best scenario is when we all work

Michael Eaves

michaeleaves

THE SECRET GAME By Scott Ellsworth – Published in New York Times Magazine – March 31, 1996In 1944, coach John McLendon at the North Carolina College for Negroes (now North

Aaron E. Carroll

aaronecarroll

American adults have failed in almost every way imaginable in this pandemic. None of it is kids’ fault.I've been screaming this in my house for months, so might as well

Tanay Pratap

tanaypratap

How not to be a #CodeNewbie?I talk to hiring managers and CEOs to place my students via @roc8HQ.Everyone is looking for experienced folks and understandably so. They want to ship

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I've tweeted before about the effects of the COVID pandemic on mental health, e.g. in the thread below.https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1255987758746570752 2. Some hard data just published in @CDCMMWR paint a disturbing

Chelsea O'Brien

ChelseaMDO1

Just because you work (or learned within) a system doesn't mean you understand how it works. The higher ed jobs crisis is significantly more complicated than "administrators" cutting your budgets

Eric Vanden Eykel

evandeneykel

I'd like to tell you a quick story about the guy who tried really hard to get me fired about two years ago. This is him. I'm going to refer

Chitra 🇮🇳 Pl Follow @GovardhanMath

chitrapadhi

Even most ardent BJP supporters cannot deny that BJP has now far exceeded even Congress in Muslim http://appeasement.It is not just appeasement;the BJP accuses the Sena guy of having abandoned

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

EDUCATION.Distilling the conversation with @bryan_caplan hosted by @tylercowen 1) There has been a traditional separation between: + "liberal education" for free men, (liber), who didn't work for a living,

Eminently 🏳️‍🌈

eminently_me5

And I want to point out a coincidence that is more IMO than happenstance. Bless the young for their fervency for justice, but we can all be blinded by self-interest

Chris Marsicano

ChrisMarsicano

Students are coming back to campus and their college dashboards are starting to show COVID-19 case increases. It is easy to get worried about the numbers rising. HOWEVER, there are

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