Oct 15th, 2009
by Chris Brady.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a very interesting chart, proportion of doctorates awarded to women by discipline over the last thirty years.
All fields
Education
Engineering
Humanities
Life sciences
Physical sciences
Professional/ other
Social sciences
1977
24.8
34.7
2.8
36.3
20.8
9.8
21.2
28.7
1987
35.3
55.1
6.5
44.4
35.2
16.5
33.2
43.4
1997
40.9
63.3
12.4
47.7
44.9
22.2
38.4
52.8
2007
45.5
67.4
20.7
49.3
51.4
28.1
50.8
58.7
Note: Figures include both U.S. citizens and noncitizens. Life sciences include agriculture and natural resources. Physical sciences include mathematics and computer and information sciences.
Jun 29th, 2009
by Chris Brady.
For whatever reasons my post from January Why you shouldn’t go to grad school in the humanities has risen back to prominence in the last week. Please read the previous post for the comments (which was itself a comment on an article by Thomas Benton in the Chronicle) but I wanted to place one of [...]
Jun 8th, 2009
by Chris Brady.
Our honors college does not use the SATs in selecting our students (although PSU does use it and we only select among those who have already been admitted to PSU). It is now quite the rage to move away from using SATs and the Chronicle of Higher Education has two commentary pieces this morning on [...]
May 28th, 2009
by Chris Brady.
Last year the Wall Street Journal challenged ten presidents of US colleges and universities to answer one essay question (which WSJ selected) from the president’s institution’s application. This story has discusses the process and the results and includes some very good consideration about writing such essays.
The exercise showed just how challenging it is to write [...]
Dressing for the classroom, criticizing feminist scholarship, and online education
A quick review of higher education news highlights.
As I sit with my cuppa tea this morning and read the Chronicle of Higher Ed and Inside Higher Ed a few stories caught my eye.
Sartorial Study Suggests Professors Should Wear What They Want (subscriber link, this is a free link for 5 days)- A psychology instructor at [...]