BY JEFFREY ISAAC Jeffrey Isaac is the James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. He posted these thoughts about reopening IU on his personal blog, and we are reposting them with his permission. On May 27, the three-month U.S. death toll from COVID-19 exceeded 100,000. The death toll in the state of Indiana…
BY HANK REICHMAN Two articles from today’s (London) Times Higher Education discuss how higher education systems in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, which have embraced privatization and corporatization, and systems in continental Europe, which have largely retained the public funding model, are faring in the face of the challenges posed by the fiscal implications…
BY MARTIN KICH One of my most widely read posts to this blog has addressed the difficulty not only in visualizing a million, a billion, and a trillion dollars but also in conceptualizing the great differences between those numbers, which do after all sound a lot alike. So, today, as we grapple with the reality…
BY JEFFREY ISAAC Jeffrey Isaac is the James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. He posted these thoughts about reopening IU on his personal blog, and we are reposting them with his permission. On Thursday, May 21, I received an e-mail from Indiana University President Michael McRobbie addressed to all IU colleagues.…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Science magazine reports the following: Seventy-seven U.S. scientists who have won a Nobel Prize [on May 21] asked Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, to “act urgently” to review a controversial NIH decision to terminate a grant that supported…
BY AARON BARLOW What concerns me, as we move into an educational situation where all teachers are going to have to be prepared, of necessity, to shift from face-to-face to online teaching situations, is that we are being asked to forget about our skills in one as we make a transition to the other. We…
BY CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD The following is reposted from the Remaking the University blog. While its focus is on the University of California its arguments are as relevant for other public research and teaching universities. Should university officials be fatalistic about Covid-powered cuts to their core educational budgets? Or should they work 24/7 on their state…
BY NOLAN HIGDON AND MICKEY HUFF The following essay appeared on Project Censored’s website and is reposted with permission. The response to COVID-19 by governing institutions has altered the lives and practices of people across the nation, including the students, faculty, and staff in higher education. One of the biggest changes in educational institutions has…
BY HANK REICHMAN As the academic year comes to a close all eyes are now turned toward the Fall. Will campuses be able to open up again? Will all teaching remain remote or will it become hybrid? And, heck, what about college football? But there are even larger long-term questions. The economic crisis engendered by…
BY MARTIN KICH Writing for Politico, Juan Perez has reported the results of a poll conducted by the magazine in collaboration with Morning Consult: Forty-one percent of Americans said it’s a bad idea to reopen K-12 schools in the fall, concluded the online survey of close to 2,000 registered voters, while 44 percent felt it…