Scholarly Kitchen Chefs open SSP’s 2020 New Directions seminar discussing how we can support academic peer-reviewed research and the entire academic publishing ecosystem during this unprecedented year of disruptions, disease, and disappointments.
With a bad job market for PhDs and heavy student debt, should we reexamine our expectations of higher education?
The “education as financial bubble” meme is spreading, and new facts and comparisons are emerging.
Why do smart people continue to seek simple rank-order listings of inherently complex phenomena?
Britain’s response to economic hard times might infect the US higher education system, and lead to major cuts in the humanities and social sciences.
A new economic analysis of the time spent realizing a four-year degree shows decreases across the board since 1961. What does it mean? Why is it happening?
A large university embraces video applications, and more than 1,000 students submit, mostly via YouTube. Here are some clever videos spotlighting some of today’s college applicants.