Tag Archive for: Scholarship

Why most graduate school requirements do not adequately prepare doctoral students for the academic job market and what can be done about it?

Although I can’t really speak to the ability of doctoral education…

How editors of academic journals can increase the willingness of scholars to review papers and get better reviews

Scholarly research is significantly improved through peer review.…

Who is the real criminologist? And other uncomfortable questions about expertise

Unless I'm mistaken, there are two situations in which people…

Small colleges and universities need to embrace academic research, scholarship, and creative activities produced by their faculty

Over the past decade, many universities and colleges in the…

Why preferring individual social science disciplines is a bad practice: Two cheers for interdisciplinary approaches

The social science fields, more specifically the academic departments…