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On a change at USF Polytechnic
President X may need to leave for the college-community relationship to be what her or his lip service has claimed is the ideal… because the reality of that has to exist on campus, not just in the head of President X. What I wrote a short while ago in Dead administration walking and the higher […]
Does Sherman Dorn hold a double standard on interview studies?
Rick Hess writes in response to my last entry commenting on a piece by Ben Wildavsky that I “snarked that the research was qualitative and that Ben didn’t offer up a quantitative analysis. Now, I thought it interesting that education scholars who often argue the merits of methodological diversity (an argument I heartily endorse, so long as […]
Why Wildavsky’s bone-headed error?
A few days ago, I was puzzling over a statement in the executive summary of an American Enterprise Institute-sponsored paper by Ben Wildavsky released (and publicized) this week: … faculty [at for-profits] tends to look quite different from those at many traditional not-for-profit institutions. First and foremost, they are instructors rather than researchers. (p. 2) Anyone who […]
Quiz of the day: Is Wildavsky’s claim about faculty correct?
In the executive summary of an American Enterprise Institute-sponsored paper by Ben Wildavsky released yesterday, I found the following statement: … faculty [at for-profits] tends to look quite different from those at many traditional not-for-profit institutions. First and foremost, they are instructors rather than researchers. (p. 2) Note the subtitle of the 16-page paper: “An […]
Dead administration walking and the higher ed Klein bottle myth
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a longtime college president found himself suspended and locked out of his office, obviously about to be fired after more than a year of controversy over the hiring and firing of a number of top administrators, including a few who blew the whistle on clear […]