by Amy E. Slaton | Mar 23, 2015 | Higher Ed
Long time, no blog. But I want to make a quick return to the fray here because I find Judith Shulevitz’ column in the New York Times yesterday, “Hiding from Scary Ideas,” and the many favorable reactions to it on social media, so terribly disturbing. 140 characters...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jun 25, 2014 | Higher Ed
Last week I attended the 2014 meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education in Indianapolis to look over the current landscape of STEM inclusion efforts from kindergarten through graduate education. This is a huge meeting, with thousands of participants...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jan 26, 2014 | Higher Ed, Media, Policy
Like many folks who read Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld’s lengthy piece in the NYTimes today, I’m aghast. The piece purports to be a probing and innovative exploration of “success” in America, following the differing fortunes of persons of various ethnic heritages. But...
by Amy E. Slaton | Sep 28, 2013 | Higher Ed
Some good news: There is now an apology posted on-line from the publisher of ASEE’s Prism magazine. Norman Fortenberry has taken responsibility all along for the appearance of the anti-LGBT letter in Prism that I discussed in the post just below, and he summarized...
by Amy E. Slaton | Sep 20, 2013 | Higher Ed, Media, Uncategorized
The line between “freedom of speech” on one hand, and the dissemination of hate speech on the other, vexes everyone who thinks about diversity in a democratic society, or at least it should. How do we protect 1st Amendment rights without also empowering those who...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jun 16, 2013 | Higher Ed, Policy
A compelling piece appeared on the American Physical Society News website a while ago that just came to my attention. (Thank you, Michael Fisher!) Author Casey W. Miller, an associate professor of physics at the University of South Florida, asks the physics...
