Articles tagged: "Columbia University"

This isn’t a joke. The Columbia University-affiliated (and all-female) Barnard College could reduce their language and science requirements and replace…

Joann Baney, who teaches at Columbia University, also teaches the New York City Police and Fire Departments peacekeeping tactics and…

It’s a ridiculous on-campus campaign, to think that writing poetry or dancing can help stop sexual assaults. This is the…

Barnard College, an all-women college affiliated with Columbia University, said they won’t participate in sexual violence programs because of the…

In one of the few crowded roundtable discussions at the recent MLA conference in Vancouver, which was far from a…

Why are classrooms silent right before summer break arrives instead of buzzing with uplifting and educated conversation? The answer can…

As one blogger notes, it is an academic tradition for professors to “try to one-up their colleagues by exchanging unintentionally hilarious sentences from students’ exams and final papers.” In a similar spirit, I will be providing some of the more striking statements made by professors discussing at the 2009 MLA Convention.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is planning to attack teacher training programs in a speech he will give at Columbia…