What others are tweeting about higher education- GRAD5104 Posts
- Discovering your authentic teaching self January 25, 2021 sarasaghafi
- Taking Remote Tests December 16, 2020 tianyug
- Ethics Blog Post December 15, 2020 emilyhellstern
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- How the Pandemic Put More Strain on Students Last Fall January 26, 2021Increased mental-health stress, worries about affordability, doubts about the value of college, and sagging motivation all emerged in a survey's findings.
- Advocates of Black Colleges Are Optimistic. Here’s What They Want From the Biden Administration. January 26, 2021The moment has been described as the dawn of a renaissance for the sector. But concrete change will be needed to deliver on that promise.
- How the Pandemic Put More Strain on Students Last Fall January 26, 2021
- Chronicle of Higher Ed: Global News
- The Year That Pushed Higher Ed to the Edge December 19, 2020The pandemic exacerbated long-simmering problems confronting colleges The pandemic exacerbated long-simmering problems confronting colleges.
- Has Internationalization 'Hit a Brick Wall'? After 4 Decades on the Front Lines, This China Expert Is Worried December 8, 2020Educational and scientific cooperation used to be the bedrock of Chinese-American ties. “But now they have themselves become the source of disagreement and tension,” says Denis Fred Simon.
- The Number of International Students Is Shrinking. Here’s How That’s Affecting the Economy. December 1, 2020When international students didn't show up at U.S. colleges in 2019-20, their contributions to the American economy fell by $1.8 billion, and more than 42,000 jobs created or supported by their spending were lost.
- The Year That Pushed Higher Ed to the Edge December 19, 2020
Category Archives: Academic Integrity and Plagerism
Week 13: Ethics Project
In working on my final project I have realized that there is so much material to explore regarding open access (OA) and the variety of opinions regarding it. I sat in the front lobby area of Newman Library and asked … Continue reading
Week 12: Personal Ethics
After reading the article in the Collegiate Times: Students to retake exam after solutions appear online, about the ethics of using Koofers.com to look at past exams, I believe that this should be a fair study tool. I do not think … Continue reading
Week 10: Professional Ethics of the Acoustical Society of America
I am a student in the department of Mechanical Engineering and my research is focused on acoustics. For this post I chose to look at the ethics that the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) publishes on their website. The ethical … Continue reading
week 9: Copyright Issues
After reading the article Copyright law affects course readings it really made me consider the way that we use material in courses and the considerations that teachers need to employ when they present copyrighted material to their class. In general I have … Continue reading
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Week 8: Final Project
Open access is a concept that I had not really thought about until becoming a graduate student. I remember struggling to find articles that I had access to as an undergraduate student and just assuming that pay walls were part … Continue reading
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Week 7: Authorship
After watching the TED Talk by Ausitn Kleon, Steal Like An Artist I felt like he did a great job of presenting the issues that accompany authorship. Near the end of his talk he presents two slides that I think really exemplify … Continue reading
Week 6: Ethics of University Rankings
After reading the resources about citation methods and tools in this weeks module, I started looking for some recent news articles about citation issues in academia. What ended up catching my interest was an article in The Chronicle of Higher … Continue reading
Week 5: Academic Fraud and Collegiate Sports
The following post is written in response to the following articles: Jeremy Bauer-Wolf: Inside Higher Ed: NCAA: No Academic Violations at UNC Marc Tracy: New York Times: N.C.A.A.: North Carolina Will Not Be Punished for Academic Scandal There was an interesting decision … Continue reading
Week 4: Graduate Honor System
After reading through the Virginia Tech Graduate Honor System policies and also some of the other documents about the policy, I found that overall the policy makes a lot of sense and I feel that it does a good job … Continue reading
Week 3: Integrity in Authorship
When I was going through the reading, “Becoming a Scientist,” I was especially intrigued by the section about authorship. The complex issue of how credit is distributed for work on scientific articles is very interesting and I think that there … Continue reading