Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - Dec 24
/***HIGHER ED
Fewer Students Mean Big Trouble For Higher Education https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/787909495/fewer-students-are-going-to-college-heres-why-that-matters
The colleges and universities with the most online students http://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/12/17/colleges-and-universities-most-online-students-2018
Teenagers don’t use email — colleges do. That’s a problem during college admissions seasonhttps://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-teenagers-emails-college-applications-20191219-ya4pwnt7lfdktdmac4r3fq7p7q-story.html
Change to Chinese university's charter dropping 'freedom of thought' stirs debatehttps://news.yahoo.com/change-ch
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/
***THE COST OF COLLEGE
The states where college costs are rising the most https://money.yahoo.com/college-costs-state-185220332.html
Fancy Dorms Aren’t The Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-main-reason-tuition-is-skyrocketing
***TEACHING
How classroom technology is holding students back https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614893/classroom-technology-holding-students-back-edtech-kids-education/
Three tips that made me a better teacher https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/12/three-tips-made-me-better-teacher
What’s on Your Bib? Annotated Bibliographies, Changing by Degrees https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/annotated-bibliographies-changing-by-degrees/
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
A conservative Catholic college in Wyoming educates students in great books, horsemanship and other outdoors skills and bans cellphones on campus https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/16/conservative-wyoming-catholic-college-students-read-great-books-and-ride-horses
A new Jesuit Model for Community Colleges https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/18/new-jesuit-model-community-colleges
U.S. Supreme Court takes up bid by Catholic schools to avoid worker lawsuits https://kfgo.com/news/articles/2019/dec/18/us-supreme-court-takes-up-bid-by-catholic-schools-to-avoid-worker-lawsuits/967651/
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS & FINANCE
Declining Enrollment prompts staff budget cuts at Christian University http://www.startribune.com/declining-enrollment-prompts-staff-budget-cuts-at-bethel-university/566126311/
Are Christian Colleges Worth the Debt Burden? (opinion) https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/12/are-christian-colleges-worth-the-debt-burden/
Financial problems land San Diego Christian College on probation https://inewsource.org/2019/12/19/san-diego-christian-college-probation/
***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Ready, Set, Trump: Big-Money Faith, Football, and Forgiveness at Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Liberty University https://www.theringer.com/2019/12/20/21029292/ready-set-trump-big-money-faith-football-and-forgiveness-at-jerry-falwell-jr-s-liberty-university
***RESEARCH
Why are Articles in Arts and Humanities Are Being Retracted? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-019-09699-9
Robots, hominins and superconductors: 10 remarkable papers from 2019 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03834-4
There’s No Winter Break From ‘Publish or Perish’ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/science/scientists-holiday-work.html
Women are less likely than men to frame their own work in positive terms https://www.statnews.com/2019/12/16/spin-doctors-skew-male-female-researchers-are-less-likely-than-men-to-frame-their-work-with-positive-words/
Myth: peer review began with the advent of the first scientific journals in the 17th century https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/jsp.51.1.04
Chinese scholars ‘show mixed responses’ to ‘cash for articles’ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chinese-scholars-show-mixed-responses-cash-articles
Raising research quality will require collective action https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03750-7
***RESEARCH AUTHORSHIP
Academe must properly credit the work in co-authored publications (opinion) https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/12/12/academe-must-properly-credit-work-co-authored-publications-opinion
Multi-authorship and research analytics https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/campaigns/global-research-report-multi-authorship-and-research-analysis/
***RESEARCH HACKING
We're All 'P-Hacking' Now https://www.wired.com/story/were-all-p-hacking-now/
Is N-Hacking Ever OK? A simulation-based study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.12.868489v1
***RESEARCH & PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology accused of ‘collective self-deception’ over results https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/psychology-accused-collective-self-deception-over-results
What’s next for psychology’s embattled field of social priming https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03755-2
***PLAGIARISM
Here's What Happens When You Report Plagiarism To A Journal Editor http://www.poweredbyosteons.org/2019/12/heres-what-happens-when-you-report.html
Why is brazenly putting one's name on a text that someone else wrote repugnant? Should it be? https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/12/06/essay-plagiarism
***STUDENT LIFE
Study: kids who have helicopter parents experience burnout in school https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/22/study-kids-who-have-helicopter-parents-experience-burnout-in-school.html
Anti-Semitism or Free Speech? College Students Cheer and Fear Trump Order https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/trump-anti-semitism-order-college-students.html
Advice for College Students Studying Abroad, and Their Parents https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/well/family/advice-for-college-students-studying-abroad-and-their-parents.html
"OK BOOMER" explained on Japanese TV https://www.youtube.com/watch
Gladwell Rebuts Advice: Don't Go to "the Best College You Can," Go Where You Can Have "Deeply Interesting Conversations" http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/malcolm-gladwell-rebuts-the-terrible-advice-given-to-students.html
Grades vs. SAT scores: Which is a better predictor of college success? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-22/grades-vs-sat-scores-which-is-a-better-predictor-of-college-success
Why colleges should stop forcing students to leave campus during breaks https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/12/23/no-home-holidays-why-colleges-should-stop-forcing-students-leave-campus-during-breaks/
My Semester with Snowflakes https://medium.com/@james.hatch/my-semester-with-the-snowflakes-888285f0e662
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Students demand more transparency about University of Texas at Austin practices and policies on sexual misconduct by professors https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/12/16/protesters-demand-removal-ut-austin-professors