“Who Is Aaron Barlow?”
“Who is Aaron Barlow?” wrote Robin Kaler, Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in an email to colleagues last October. She asked this in one of the emails relating to Chancellor Phyllis Wise and the Steven Salaita case that were “dumped” last week in response to a FOIA request, emails…
ACCJC Again Denies CCSF Accreditation
The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) has upheld its 2013 decision to terminate the accreditation of City College of San Francisco (CCSF), but the move will not affect the current status of the college, which remains open and fully accredited. ACCJC announced its affirmation of the decision it made in June 2013…
Reflections on a Core Conundrum of Progressive Politics
Today The Hill ran an article Julian Hattem titled “Fury of the Left Falls on Schumer.” Here are the opening paragraphs: “Liberals are livid at Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) decision to oppose the White House’s nuclear deal with Iran, and have threatened to launch a full-scale war as retribution. “Activists and former top officials within…
Peer Review: Make It Transparent
Administrative Staffing 1987-2011, A Statistical Profile by Institution, Part 13: Delaware, District of Columbia, and Federated States of Micronesia
The federal data that will be presented in this series of posts was analyzed by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NCIR) in collaboration with the American Institutes for Research. The NECIR story on the data and its implications, written by Jon Marcus, who is currently an editor at the Hechinger Report, is available…
Murder Is Our Peculiar Pastime: Fifty Notable American Crime Novels: 5-6.
Burke, James Lee. A Morning for Flamingoes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. In James Lee Burke’s novels featuring Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana setting is a character as vividly drawn as the protagonist himself. The bayou country is, at once, a lush paradise and the dismal swamp. The plantation architecture harks back to an ante-bellum splendor or…
UIUC Chancellor Phyllis Wise steps down
Below is the UIUC news release, which is posted here: http://uofi.uillinois.edu/emailer/newsletter/77294.html Phyllis M. Wise steps aside as Urbana-Champaign campus chancellor Returns to faculty role, effective August 12 August 6, 2015 URBANA–University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise announced in a statement today that she will step aside as chancellor and vice president of the…
Donald Trump and Higher Education
The title of this post is, of course, a misleading tease if you, the reader, are expecting some sort of summary of Donald Trump’s positions on higher-education issues. The Trump campaign’s website includes no “issues” section presenting the candidate’s positions on higher education or on anything else. So, what is the point of this post?…
Education, Innovation, Quality and “Disruption”
George Siemens first gained prominence in 2008 when he helped invent the massive, open, online course, better known by its acronym, the MOOC. MOOCs quickly evolved into something rather different from what Siemens had imagined, but that didn’t stop him from agreeing to head up the Gates-funded MOOC Research Initiative, which seeks to bring hard…