Archive for February, 2011

 
 

Why Experts Are Not the Best Teachers

February 28, 2011

WoPro wonders how well experts can actually teach.

 
 
 
 

Guest Post: Having (Too Much?) Fun In The Classroom

February 25, 2011

Today’s guest blogger, Tyler Tarver, ruminates on why teachers need to have fun in the classroom.

 
 
 
 

The Professor Who Left After Tenure: Interview With Ann Daly

February 23, 2011

Interview with Associate-Professor-turned-life-coach Ann Daly.

 
 
 
 

Guest Post: Why Humanities People Should Care About Math

February 21, 2011

Guest post: Why Humanities People Should Care About Math

 
 
 
 

How to Really Be a Public Intellectual

February 18, 2011

WoPro reports on her first event.

 
 
 
 

Guest Post: How to Get A Job After You’ve Left Grad School

February 16, 2011

Katie DePalma gives great tips for people who’ve left grad school and are now looking for a job!

 
 
 
 

A Respectable Literary Reason to Hate Valentine’s Day, Etc.

February 14, 2011

I don’t know what everyone else is going on about, the only thing today marks is 36th year since P.G. Wodehouse left this earth. Otherwise 1975 was a  stellar year, if I do say so myself. P.G. Wodehouse, whose prose is a marvelous thing to behold, is best known for chronicling the adventures of Bertie [...]

 
 
 
 

Stories From The Front: Another Person Who Left a Tenure-Track Job

February 11, 2011

Today’s guest post is from someone who left a tenure-track job despite having a family to worry about.

 
 
 
 

Bring On The Trade Schools

February 9, 2011

WoPro is all for trade schools, and doesn’t see why Plato shouldn’t be discussed at bars while we’re at it.

 
 
 
 

Attack of the Killer Rabbits

February 7, 2011

WoPro is looking for an army of Killer Rabbits.