Monthly Archives: December 2019

“Intimate supervision”: Surveillance on campus

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Robert Basil

This Washington Post report – holy crap: Short-range phone sensors and campuswide WiFi networks are empowering colleges across the United States to track hundreds of thousands of students more precisely than ever before. Dozens of schools now use such technology … Continue reading →

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“The Professional Culture of the Press”

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Robert Basil

NYU Journalism professor and media critic Jay Rosen* writes that “Not in personal but in public life, 2019 has been the most bleak and depressing year I have lived through of my 63. A few tiny green shoots in a … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 23, 2019 by Robert Basil

The Martin building, Olympia. Collages by the wonderful David Scherer Water.

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Open Learning

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Robert Basil

Some of my colleagues in the Applied Communications department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have published an “open textbook” for people in our profession. Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications is a compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral … Continue reading →

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