Guest blogger Arianne Shahvisi is an assistant professor of philosophy at the American University of Beirut, and has recently written commentary for the New Statesman, Jacobin, Open Democracy, and Truthout, centered on issues surrounding race, class, gender, and borders. Last month, Saida Grundy, an incoming sociology faculty member at Boston University, tweeted a set of remarks…
The following is the Executive Summary of a report issued by the California Faculty Association, which represents all faculty in the 23-campus California State University system. The report is the fourth and final one in a series. To see the entire series go to http://www.calfac.org/race-to-the-bottom Over the last decade, the administration of the California State…
In a recent op-ed published in the New York Times, Joe Nocera examines the increasing tension between the priorities of faculty and of alumni donors who want to create a nationally prominent athletics program at Rutgers University. Here are several paragraphs from the middle of the column, which is titled, “At Rutgers, It’s Books vs.…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released a new report titled Years of Cuts Threaten to Put College Out of Reach for More Students. Prepared by Michael Mitchell and Michael Leachman, the report shows that the decline in state support for public colleges and universities was exacerbated by the Great Recession of 2008,…
The Huffington Post has just published “One Venn Diagram That Every College Graduate Should Give a Good Long Look”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/college-graduate-venn-diagram_n_7286722.html. It provides a humorous look at the sometimes difficult transition from the quasi-adulthood of one’s college years to full adulthood in the much more demanding workaday world. Although the Venn Diagram is humorous and undoubtedly…
Previous Posts in This Series: The Institutions on the Department of Education’s Financial Watch List: Part 1: https://academeblog.org/2015/05/07/the-institutions-on-the-department-of-educations-financial-watch-list-part-1/ The Institutions on the Department of Education’s Financial Watch List: Part 2: https://academeblog.org/2015/05/08/the-institutions-on-the-department-of-educations-financial-watch-list-part-2/ The Institutions on the Department of Education’s Financial Watch List: Part 3: https://academeblog.org/2015/05/11/the-institutions-on-the-department-of-educations-financial-watch-list-part-3/ The Institutions on the Department of Education’s…
The following charts are from the National Science Foundation website: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2015/nsf15322/?WT.mc_id=USNSF_179 Funding by Type: Funding by Performer: Funding by Agency and Performer: Funding by Agency and Type: Funding by Discipline:
Since today is Bertrand Russell’s birthday (he was born in 1872), I wanted to share this short segment from my dissertation on the history of academic freedom about Russell’s firing from CCNY and the first court case to mention the words “academic freedom”: A turning point in academic freedom came in 1940. That year marked the…
In a recent release titled “Beyond College Rankings,” Jonathan Rothwell, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, examined the “value added” of two- and four-year colleges in the United States. In doing so, Mr. Rothwell assessed the difference in the expected economic success of alumni and the actual outcomes of graduates. The conclusions are based on…
The best way to ensure at least some value to education is through time-defined study under monitored face-to-face supervision. Education can certainly happen otherwise; it can even end up being not very good in this set-up. But every other model cries out for scam. In The New York Times today, Declan Walsh shows us that the ultimate result of the…