“Right to Work,” by the Numbers: Part 10: Unemployment Rates in August 2015

You cannot make the case that “right to work” increases employment opportunities by comparing these two maps:     __________________________ Previous posts in this series have included: Part 1: Population Growth and Movement: https://academeblog.org/2013/04/03/2666/. Part 2: Immigration: https://academeblog.org/2013/04/21/right-to-work-by-the-numbers-part-2/. Part 3: Unemployment Rates, by State: https://academeblog.org/2013/04/30/right-to-work-by-the-numbers-part-3/. Part 4: Historic Highs and Lows in Unemployment, by State:…

OCAAUP President John McNay Addresses Administrative Bloat on Dayton-Area Television

OCAAUP President John McNay appeared on “WHIO Reports,” a local news show in Dayton, to discuss the issue of administrative bloat at Ohio’s public colleges and universities. McNay was joined by conservative Ohio University economist Richard Vedder, as well as Dayton Daily News reporter Josh Sweigart and host Jim Otte. McNay used the opportunity to discuss the…

U.S. Higher Education News for September 22, 2015, Part 2

  And here are some items of possible interest from newspapers published outside of the U.S.:   Abas, Azura. “`Boost Intake of Foreign Students.’” New Straits Times [Malaysia] 22 Sep. 2015: 2. PUTRAJAYA: PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has urged the Higher Education Ministry to boost the number of foreign students studying in Malaysia…

U.S. Higher Education News for September 22, 2015, Part 1

  Edwards, Mary Morgan. “State Puts Greater Emphasis on College Advisers; Schools with Best Results Get Bigger Piece of Funding.” Dayton Daily News 22 Sep. 2015: B, 2. The heat is on state colleges and universities to make sure more students succeed, and that makes academic advisers a key part of schools’ strategies. The past…

Education Reform Whack-a-Mole

The education “reform” movement of the United States has roots going as far back as school desegregation and busing in the 1960s and the increase in numbers of private schools that resulted and, to a lesser degree, from the rise of the home-schooling movement.  Both of these drew students from the public schools, primarily students who…

Veblen, Redux

In the current issue of Academe, AAUP President Rudy Fichtenbaum explores the question, “What’s New about Today’s Corporate University?” He concludes: Corporations today are interested not just in controlling those who might criticize their agenda but also in using institutions of higher education as publicly financed research centers and privately financed (tuition-funded) training facilities that focus on…

Big Fish, Small Pond: Institutionalizing Academic Inequality

A little over ten years ago, two adequately eminent sociology departments swiped two of my colleagues. For years, I wondered why the then-dean didn’t try to stop those raids; I’ve finally decided that the answer lies in a tangle of college and interdepartmental politics and corporatization, as well as the fact that one of the swipes was a woman. (In the not so…