Stanford University's "Graduate Student and Faculty Collaborative Teaching in the Humanities," is training future scholars to focus on teaching in the liberal arts. With a $125,000 grant from the New York-based Teagle Foundation, this new program supports faculty-graduate student course development, team-teaching, and provides a plenum forum for...

Stanford University's History Department has developed a collaborative teaching model for its faculty and graduate students that many other history departments across America may want to watch.

In 2011 the New York City based Teagle Foundation, an organization that seeks to develop new methods for higher...

Stanford University's Graduate Student and Faculty Collaborative Teaching in the Humanities is a teaching initiative funded by the New York City-based Teagle Foundation, which provides higher education grants to improve undergraduate student learning in the arts and sciences. Throughout 2012-2013, Stanford faculty and graduate students have...

Why read literature? Will it make one a more lively cocktail party conversant? Perhaps. But more often than not, reading literature for a living proves hazardous to one's mingle potential.

In fact, David Palumbo-Liu, the Louise Hewlett Nixon professor and director of Comparative Literature at...

What are the territorial and cultural boundaries of Europe? How do Europe's many competing theological, cultural, and political visions coexist today? What future will they bring? Does Europe still matter to non-Europeans?

These were some of the pressing questions raised at the University of California, Irvine conference, "Visions...

"Letter from the Birmingham Jail," the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 essay, appeals to his fellow clergymen to uphold Brown vs. the Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision of 1954 which ruled segregation unconstitutional. With the arrival of another Martin...

The 2013 Modern Language Association convention in Boston included a critical reexamination of doctoral education, an effort outlined by former MLA president Russell A. Berman in an earlier article in Inside Higher Education. Addressing the shrinking job market -- one that has been in decline for...

Clumsy, amateurish, and officially disavowed by the United States, Innocence of Muslims, the controversial American-made trailer for a supposed feature-length film continues to ignite protests across the Muslim world, taking lives of Muslims and non-Muslims -- including that of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J....

There is a moment in Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt's The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism, when an Indian-Malaysian interview subject leans toward Eriksen and entreats him to describe the Malaysian multiculturalism as an "apartheid." He invokes the infamous example of the erstwhile South Africa to underscore...

A report on the Telos in Europe conference

An uncannily warm light fills L'Aquila's 13th century Basilica Santa Maria di Collemaggio. As one approaches the altar, it becomes clear the illumination falls in from the open sky. The roof and dome collapsed in L'Aquila's catastrophic 2009...

"And mark my words:" one neuroscience blogger asserts: "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2020 will be awarded for the optogenetics work of Lima, Miesenboeck, and Deisseroth."

This claim about a Nobel Prize some eight years away may seem obscure, especially about a new technology...

New markets, copyright, IP addresses, freedom of speech, human rights and, of course, privacy -- these were the hot topics of the Legal Frontiers of Digital Media Conference, which was jointly sponsored by the Media Law Resource Center and Stanford University's Center for Internet...

Thoughts On Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator

Some audiences have greeted Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comedy, The Dictator, with the same enthusiasm for the English comedian's relentless in-your-face ribald humor of his previous efforts as characters Ali G., Borat, and Brüno. Others have seen...

On a sunny May 10, 2012 high-tech industry heavyweights and Stanford academics reconvened to discuss potential futures of humanities PhDs. This year's second annual Bibliotech conference at Stanford University offered solid advice. Here are some soundbites from Silicon Valley industry experts:

The Bibliotech Program is the...

Hearing that he was ruled guilty of 15 counts of privacy invasion and investigation tampering, Dharun Ravi appeared unmoved as he sat in the New Jersey court on March 16, 2012. Yet when found guilty of bias intimidation, as well, Ravi's eyes bulged in disbelief. The former roommate...

Some Thoughts on Reading College Applications

It's September and the crunch is on. You've read and re-read the Common Application (aka the Common App.) directions, browsed a myriad of sources about Common Apps, and you still feel stressed out about writing your college admissions essay.

It...

"Welcome to class, please take out a piece of paper and put your name on it. Please answer the following question on the board:"

Sometimes a mistake becomes an opportunity. Explain.

For over a decade I have used this vague, but surprisingly evocative one-time SAT II ...

As We Speak: How to Make Your Point and have it Stick. By Peter Meyers and Shann Nix. Atria Books, Hardcover, ebook, 275 pp.

"One upon a time information was power. Now you can get all the data you need in a heartbeat, the information age...

Academics should read Norwegian right-wing murderer Anders Behring Breivik's writing. Perhaps this exhortation seems redundant in a world of instant online access and 24/7 media spectacles, but it is also true that academics are famously anxious about spectacles, and there is no doubt this violent anti-Muslim, would-be-learned "conservative...