Higher Education – This is David M. Perry

On “In-Class” Tests

October 10, 2022

Once upon a time the Chronicle of Higher Education created a webby bloggy site called Chronicle Vitae. The idea is that it would be Linkedin but for higher ed (I think. They never told freelancers like me!) with jobs, profiles, connections, messaging, and blog posts and I wrote a bunch of pieces for them. But it’s all offline … Continue ReadingOn “In-Class” Tests

Stop being an asshole (in academic book reviews)

November 10, 2021

When I was in graduate school, I spent three semesters in medieval historiography seminars in which the work was to weekly read a book, then write a book review, then distribute your book review and other published book reviews to the class. In this way we would educate each other about the foundational work in … Continue ReadingStop being an asshole (in academic book reviews)