With the new academic year underway, it is both a pleasure and relief to be able to spend less time on the implications of the recent recession on higher education and more time on what we do best and love most: education and the curriculum. This feeling of relief was most noticeable at the opening […]…Continue Reading Curricular Musings: Inviting in the Students
Day: September 14, 2010
Palin Redux? Some Cautionary Words
Another Republican primary, another Palin-backed Tea Party candidate surprise victory. This time the “upset” occurred in the Delaware Republican Senate primary, where Christine O’Donnell beat the Republican establishment-backed candidate Represen……Continue Reading Palin Redux? Some Cautionary Words
Will Democrats Lose Control of the House?: Five Labor Day Predictions
Labor Day weekend, or thereabouts, is typically when the American Political Science Association (APSA) holds its annual convention – an event in which hundreds of geeky men and women (the men wearing blue jackets, khaki pants and red ties, the ………Continue Reading Will Democrats Lose Control of the House?: Five Labor Day Predictions