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Professor Marshall Poe speaks to NSoW about his brainchild, “The New Books Network“, and how it could become a model to provide high-quality, inexpensive education online.
We met Marshall Poe when we learned that in his history classes he encourages students to produce movies rather than term papers (see:
by Sara McDermott Jain
December 1st, 2012, was the two-year anniversary of my starting the No MFA Project.
A little over two years ago I was working in marketing at a publishing house, dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. The job was unsatisfying and I felt trapped. The only way out that I [...]
Back on September 5 of 2012 Brooke Allen sent an email to the NSoW mailing list inviting subscribers to join us in a free class. So many people wrote that we decided to post it as an article so they could add comments about their experiences.
Adrienne and I have [...]
by: Joan Ramirez
So many people talk about what is wrong with teaching today. I am going to tell you what is right. Last year, I completed my student teaching in a wonderful elementary school in New York City with several exceptional special education students in the third grade. One in particular has [...]
A book review by Adrienne Rodney
In 2005 I borrowed $60,000 to take 12 classes in an 18 month master’s degree program in Journalism at Boston University.
Now my boss is paying for me to take writing classes taught by professional writers at Gotham Writer’s Workshop for $395 a class [...]
And They’re Coming to Teach You Things You Need to Know
By: Victoria Goldenberg
Could No Shortage of Work (NSoW) have existed 20 years ago? The costs in time, money and labor to gather and direct members and run a publication might not have justified the [...]
by: Brooke Allen
A discussion with Bill Black.
William Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-07. Bill is an outspoken critic of our regulators, banking, [...]
A conversation with Henry Mintzberg, Professor of Management Studies at McGill University.
By Brooke Allen, founder of No Shortage of Work
“Perhaps business schools should issue recall notices.” These words were spoken last week by Henry Mintzberg, a featured speaker at a Fordham University conference titled, “MBA [...]
A Review by NSoW subscriber: Ariel Gros-Werter
Charlie Hoehn, in his free on-line e-book, “Recession-Proof Graduate”, outlines how a newly-graduated 22-year-old can become recession-proof, i.e. receive multiple job offers in under a year despite being in a recession.
His plan is fairly simple [...]
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