Academic Departments

June 2, 2014

What Can You Do With a Humanities PhD Anyway?

This piece by Elizabeth Segran in The Atlantic (March 31) offers some food for thought if you are entering, already in, or find yourself a director of graduate studies in a humanities program. Here are some highlights that I found… Continue reading
December 5, 2013

Colleges are teaching economics backwards

…here’s one temporary fix for introductory economics: teach it backwards. Reversing the order in which introductory economic classes are taught today might be the easiest way to respond to the crisis in undergraduate education. Plus, the history of how it… Continue reading