Tag Archives: academia

Students fail MOOCs because MOOCs fail students

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

For Al Jazeera English, I took on MOOCs, or massive open online courses. (Spoiler! Not a fan: ) The best word to describe MOOCs – at least in terms of their capacity to replace traditional education – is “failure”. Most … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

The Adjunct Crisis Continues

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

I have a new article on Al Jazeera English about adjuncts in academia, but maybe you already knew that. Since it came out on Thursday, it has been shared by over 14,000 people on Facebook and remains the most popular … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 13 Comments

New Interview

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

To my surprise, this interview with me on the blog From PhD to Life has gone a little viral, and was featured in The Billfold, Savage Minds, and other places. If you haven’t read it, you can find it here. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

How Academic Paywalls Kill Research Funding

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

Several months ago I predicted that the academic paywall system – which cuts off scholarly work from ordinary people unwilling to shell out hundreds of dollars for a few articles — would ultimately lead to a loss of funding down … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

The Generation of Lost Opportunity

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

I have a new article up at Al Jazeera about why baby boomers should stop lecturing us about how to live in a world that no longer exists. I wrote this article in response to a letter Harvard President Drew … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 8 Comments

Why do anthropologists ignore the internet?

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

I have a new essay up at Ethnography Matters called On Legitimacy, Place and the Anthropology of the Internet. This was adapted from a chapter of my dissertation which I had been encouraged to publish in an academic journal, but since … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

More Thoughts on Academic Paywalls

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

This week the website Academia.edu wrote an article about my research on Uzbekistan and my thoughts on academic publishing. I have been using Academia.edu to post pdfs of my articles for years, so I was happy to talk to them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Aaron Swartz and Open Access in Academia

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior

Last October I wrote an article about Aaron Swartz, the internet activist committed to ending the academic paywall system and making research accessible to everyone. In light of Swartz’s tragic suicide, my article has gone viral. An excerpt: For attempting … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 16 Comments

The high price we pay for inequality in education

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Sarah Kendzior

In the past, I have written about professors making poverty wages and academic publishing houses profiting off unpaid labor. For my latest Al Jazeera piece, I take on racial and class inequality in the higher education system, arguing that higher education … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Academic Paywalls Codify Elitism

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Sarah Kendzior

I have returned from the Registan conference on  Social Trends and Stability in Central Asia, where I spoke on a roundtable panel about human rights in Uzbekistan with Jim Bigus from the State Department, Steve Swerdlow from Human Rights Watch, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 1 Comment