A Corporate and Academy Collaboration Done Right . . . and How it Can Inform the Student Experience

This is a guest post by Vicki L Baker, a contributor, along with co-author Peter Boumgarden, to the September-October issue of Academe. She is associate professor of economics and management at Albion College, where she teaches management, organizational behavior, and leadership courses. As a business educator who has been in higher education for nearly 12 years, I am always seeking opportunities to…

Liner Notes: Backdrop to "3 Things HBCUs Should Do"

This is a guest post by Donald Earl Collins. He is adjunct associate professor of history at University of Maryland University College. He previously taught at Howard University in the Department of Afro-American Studies and has written on topics such as multiculturalism, education, and African American identity. I come at the issue of the future of HBCUs, the topic of my article “Three Things…

U.S. Higher Education News for September 16, 2015

  Bramson, Kate. “Life-Sciences Firm Nabsys Closes, Says Stockholder; DNA-Sequencing Firm Was Seen as Star Startup in State.” Providence Journal [RI] 16 Sep. 2015: A, 8. . . . Nabsys founder and former CEO Dr. Barrett W. Bready on Tuesday would neither confirm nor deny whether the company has closed, but said “a lot” of…

Offering Non-Partisan Alternatives to the Relentless Tax Cutting Promoted by ALEC and the Club for Growth

The Ohio Conference provides some financial support to One Ohio Now, a non-partisan group advocating common-sense tax policies that actually meet the needs of our state—that provide sufficient funding of our state’s public institutions, public services, and physical and digital infrastructures. Yesterday, I came across the following news item reporting that a similar group has…

Educationalists. (Yes, They Mean Us.)

The Glasgow Herald has published a short item with the headline “Educationalists Ready to Learn.” The cynic in me immediately wondered whether “educationalist” was some new corporate coinage created to reframe and to devalue the essential role of “faculty” in higher education. But if the headline writer was influenced by corporatization, that influence has probably…

The Top 200 Universities Worldwide

These are the QS World University Rankings of the Top 200 Universities for 2015. For an explanation of the methodology used to produce these rankings and for other rankings provided by QS World University Rankings, go to the website at: http://www.topuniversities.com/qs-world-university-rankings.

That Was Then; This is Now: Part 1

This is a re-post from Ana Fores-Tamayo’s blog Adjunct Justice [http://adjunct-justice.blogspot.com/]. Given that the issue of undocumented immigrants in the United States has moved to the forefront during this year’s still nascent presidential campaign, and given that much of the discussion of immigration has been quite generalized and abstract, this sort of personalized perspective on…