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How to fix some of public higher education in the real world, NOW.
On Sunday, I described six realities of public higher education spending, and I promised some ideas to address those realities. That sounds like a tall order, given the political and institution ambitions that drive a solid chunk of funding decisions, especially for public research universities. But let a cynical historian try his hand at a […]
Six realities of public higher education spending
With President Obama’s speech last month in Buffalo, and Dylan Matthews’ Tuition Is Too Damn High’ series in the Washington Post‘s Wonkblog, institutional and student costs have been at the focus of higher-ed policy debate at the start of this academic year. Late last week, Matthews concluded his series with a list of ideas to reduce […]
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 […]
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 […]
One Week, Better Tools (spoof)
While several of my friends have been working hard this week on developing a new digital-humanities tool at One Week | One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barnraising, I’ve been spoofing their original Ideascale site to get feedback on options Monday and Tuesday with One Week, Better Tools. Or as I explain on the site: We’re […]