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What administrators should say when faculty are controversial
Since both the University of Rhode Island and Florida Atlantic University follow the standard practice of trying to make up responses to controversies over faculty statements, responses that fell well short of a vigorous defense of academic principles, I thought I might provide a boilerplate press release for all colleges and universities that can be […]
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 […]
Florida’s increasing high school graduation rate
As the Times, the Orlando Sentinel and other papers are reporting, the high school graduation rate for Florida’s public schools climbed by about 4% in 2011-12 from the (federally-defined) graduation rate reported for 2010, from 71% to 75% (rounding up in each case). More importantly, this is a substantial leap from the (federally-defined) graduation rate in 2006-07 […]
The outsourcing of almost everything in state departments of education
While Sandy is forcing us to ponder our reliance on those unionized, overpaid public employees known as first responders, a little discussion about outsourcing is in order. ((Thanks to Sandy, I am stranded in a Philadelphia airport motel the first half of this week. Fortunately, I have had consistent power and internet access, so I […]
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