Why podcasts make excellent syllabi

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My students asked me to convince more teachers to make a podcast syllabus for their course, so here goes.

Ways to ruin universities and academic values

Much has been said about the academic’s burden of balancing teaching and research. Is the new university model helping?

“Good” or “bad” students?

Universities tend to pride themselves in having “the best students” or the most “competitive programs”. An assumption is that this is achieved by keeping the acceptance rate as low as possible, only allowing those with top grades to enter the programs. Is this the best practice? Since I started teaching again last semester, I have thought more about how we judge the quality of our students when we say that they are “good” or “bad”.