The Phytophactor

With October looming, it was time to get out the baskets and ladders and harvest the apple crop .  As this was the first of what is hoped to...

In an article entitled “ The walking dead in higher Ed ” (whatever that means; it never says) Geoff Irvine tees off on what passes for a...

Administrators and politicians always want to know how we know if we've taught our students anything. And of course they want it reduced...

The Chronicle of Higher Education has just published a commentary that chides teaching faculty for not embracing assessment. And if we don...

Well, one hardly knows what to say when a humble botanist is quoted at length in the Chronicle of Higher Education simply because one write...