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Atomic Department Ravages the Big Apple!!
On Monday, I discussed the difficulties with analysis of college and university costs that relied on either legal or largely rhetorical allocations. Today, I want to discuss the common perception that traditions of departmental autonomy are responsible for huge amounts of inefficiency in colleges and universities. ((This is different from arguments about labor costs. Skyrocketing faculty […]
Rhetorical allocations in higher education
Sara Goldrick-Rab’s discussion in early August of higher education, health care, and costs argues that there needs to be more nuts-and-bolts scrutiny of costs in colleges. I agree, and yet I also think it is difficult to do so cleanly. If you think hospitals are good at obscuring what is spent where (and they are very good […]
Student services and higher-ed unbundling
Over the weekend, a few papers on higher education gave me mental whiplash: Andrew Kelly and Rick Hess’s Beyond Retrofitting, a brief for unbundling of higher education; and Sara Goldrick-Rab et al. on very tentative evidence of success by Single Stop USA. (Instead of heading to a white paper that will quickly become obsolete, I […]
Pictura invisibilis collegio artium digital
In the 1960s, Derek Price and Diana Crane popularized a description of the informal knowledge sharing of in-groups as “invisible colleges,” professional networks that share unwritten or hard-to-describe ways of working inside a field, a circle of teaching that by its informal nature excludes those outside the network. The concept of an invisible college is […]
Michael Olneck on badges
U. Wisconsin professor emeritus and sociologist Michael Olneck wrote me the following in response to my 2011 blog entry on badges and exchange credentials: I was reading your September 25, 2011 blog, “‘Credentialized badge’” is an oxymoron?,” in which you identify Scouting merit badges (and associated ranks) with “nominal,” rather than “exchange-based” credentials. I think […]