Cultural Representations of Higher Ed, No. 10 _________________________ Farran Mackenzie, a professor of history (created by Maggie Wheeler); Professor Malcolm (created by Tom Bradby); Sheila Malory, a professor of English (created by Hazel Holt); Harley Manners, a professor of psychology (created by Charles Judson Dutton); Maria Masterson, a professor of English (created by Sarah Dunant);…
This letter was sent by the Steering Committee of the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education to the leadership of the faculty bargaining unit at the City College of San Francisco after the regional accreditation agency announced that the college had not made sufficient progress toward correcting the deficiencies identified by the accreditation team…
Writing for Nation of Change, Rebecca Leber reports that, according to a new poll by Public Policy Polling, 29 percent of Louisiana Republicans place the primary blame for the government’s inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina on President Obama; 28 percent placed the primary blame on President Bush; and 44 percent have indicated that they are…
While New Faculty Majority appreciates the efforts of the Obama administration to address the critical problem of the skyrocketing cost of higher education and its effects, particularly on the students and faculty who are saddled with crippling student debt, we call on the administration to consider more carefully the full ramifications of the policies it…
An “On the Issues” post from the Campaign for the future of Higher Education [http://futureofhighered.org] _________________________ We like to think experts who weigh in on the direction of American higher education are steeped in researchabout what works and have real-world experience with actual students. We like to assume that elected officials, who are accountable to…
Cultural Representations of Higher Ed, No. 9 ____________________ Gillian Adams, a professor of history (created by Nora Kelly); Tom Allen, a professor of English (created by Marion Boyd); Jack Amirau, a professor of science (created by Bob Reiss); John Ashwin, a professor of Sanskrit (created by Anthony Boucher); Carl Atwater, a professor of history (created…
An “On the Issues” Post from the Campaign for the future of Higher Education [http://futureofhighered.org] _______________ A partnership between San Jose University and Udacity, a for-profit MOOC provider, to offer several MOOCs got off to a rousing start at a 45-minute news conference in January. People there included the governor of California, the president of…
President Obama’s new “plan” for higher education is, of course, largely a sparely detailed sketch of a proposal, especially when one considers what any legislation that might actually result from it will end up looking like. In fact, many commentators on both the Left and the Right have expressed serious doubts about whether the “plan’…
To start the fall semester on a light note . . . The first half of this post is a list of unusual book titles collected by Russell Ash and Brian Lake for Bizarre Books (1998). It is another item that I am re-posting from Futility Closet (www.futilitycloset.com). It is re-posted with the permission of Greg Ross,…