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Differential tuition for STEM fields (in either direction) is foolish policy
Earlier this weekend, FSU physics professor Paul Cottle lit into UF philosophy professor and Florida’s SUS faculty union leader Tom Auxter for an op-ed Friday in the Orlando Sentinel. I’ll spend little time on Paul Cottle’s stylistic argument that a 600-word column is a rhetorical non-starter if it spends the space criticizing current policy, other […]
Are campus chapters of X just branches or local entities?
Earlier this month, Students for Education Reform chapters in New York City (at NYU and Columbia) planned to publicly protest the lack of an agreement on teacher evaluations between the New York teachers union and the city schools. In the last year, the city Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers agreed on […]
Why shared governance is such a damned good thing… for administrators
After I stepped down 19 months ago from being the head of the faculty union at USF, I got ribbed by my successor about “turning to the dark side” with an appointment last August as a department chair. “More like the gray side,” I replied. (In my college, chairs are in the faculty union bargaining […]
BCGD: Big College Graduation Deal
A few quick comments on the new report on college graduation by Pew researchers Richard Fry and Kim Parker, which estimates 33% bachelor’s degree completion among non-institutionalized 25- through 29-year-olds (HT: NYT’s Tamar Lewin): The increase in college graduation (from 28-29% before the recession to 33% now) is a noticeable boost, both for the pace of increase […]
Assistant Professor opening, School Counseling, #USF #scchat
University of South Florida College of Education Announcement of a Faculty Position #7704 Assistant Professor, School Counseling Department of Psychological and Social Foundations