by Tony Waters | Oct 22, 2014 | Addressing the Academy | | About the author
Fair warning from an anonymous peer reviewer of one of my academic articles… The author is hampered by an inaccurate, naïve, and highly simplistic understanding of the basic principles…which leads him to make ludicrous statements like the following… Yes, that’s me:...
by Michael S. | Sep 12, 2014 | Addressing the Academy, Articles | | About the author
For a scientist, citations are key. If your papers get cited by others, the assumption is you and your work is valuable. But is this a safe assumption? This article questions the validity of citation counting and finally concludes that the measurement is neither a...
by Tony Waters | Jun 6, 2014 | Addressing the Academy | | About the author
Meetings are rituals, and rituals need symbols, and decorations. I’ve been to a lot of meetings in my time as an academic where I sat bored and confused, but still fulfilled my function as a decoration, and clap on cue. And to a large extent, that is what such ritual...
by Timothy McGettigan | Oct 10, 2012 | Addressing the Academy | | About the author
Recall that, after having stirred up post-9/11 controversy with his comments about the “little Eichmans” who died in the World Trade Centers, Ward Churchill was tried, convicted, censured and terminated by what amounted to a kangaroo court by his former...
by Timothy McGettigan | Mar 2, 2011 | Addressing the Academy | | About the author
Bill Gates should stick to what he does best: selling crappy software. As an education analyst he is a fish out of water. In response to the news that education budgets are being slashed all across the US, Bill Gates put forward an argument (“How Teacher...
by Rachel Demerling | Jul 9, 2010 | Addressing the Academy | | About the author
In recent years, women have begun to make inroads into the ranks of teaching staff in Canadian universities. Between 2002-2003, the number of full-time female faculty had risen to 30 percent, which was a substantial increase from only 20 percent one decade earlier...