Category: BYU

  • Boundary Maintenance at Universities

    Boundary Maintenance at Universities

    Every year or so there’s some post or article about BYU performing boundary maintenance, and another one just dropped. I’ve already said most of what I have to say about this issue elsewhere, but I just wanted to point out that if you applied for a US sociology faculty position and it was discovered that you,…

  • BYU is # 1 in the Nation for Number of Foreign Languages Offered–By Far

    BYU is # 1 in the Nation for Number of Foreign Languages Offered–By Far

    Fellow blogger Jonathan and I were talking on the back-end about Modern Language Association statistics (as one does in the bloggernacle), and he drew my attention to a dataset kept by the MLA that records the different foreign language classes taught in the US, so I ran some simple summary statistics to see where BYU…